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Proofpoint HR Shared Service Specialist in Reading, United Kingdom

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing!

We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.

Corporate Overview:

Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber-attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.

We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.

Job Description:

Proofpoint is seeking a HR Shared Services Specialist to join our growing team in Reading. This role is a great opportunity to have direct impact on employee lifecycle and experience through supporting with onboarding, offboarding, partnering with key HR Stakeholders and enhancing the employee experience. The HR Shared Services Specialist will be the main point of contact for all HR inquiries from initial requests through fulfilment and will partner with our local and regional talent teams to identify solutions and resolve employee issues in a timely fashion. You will be expected to be independent and proactive, with a customer service mindset and great stakeholder management skills. This role will support areas of EMEA and APJ and will also support with the Global processes.

Your day-to-day:

  • Triaging cases via our service management system and shared inboxes and providing resolution in a timely manner and meeting the SLAs, to our employees and various internal and external stakeholders

  • Ensure the accuracy of employee data through the management of employee systems and processes

  • Support with onboarding, offboarding and employee life cycle processes and queries

  • Partner with the Benefits, Payroll, HRBPs, Immigration and compliance team in delivering the best customer service but also partner in various projects

  • Provide testing support for Workday updated releases, integration changes and new functionality rollouts

  • Actively participate in implementation of new policies and processes

  • Help create, author and manager the HR Shared services knowledgebase

  • Process a variety of HR transaction, ensuring compliance and integrity throughout the system

  • Be able to provide reports and data analysis on request

  • Maintain discretion in matters of confidentiality at all times

What you bring to the team

  • Experience working within a HR Shared Services hub, ideally tech company but not a must

  • Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office suite especially Excel, Word and PowerPoint and other tools that help eliminate manual steps from HR processes by automating and integrating to ensure greater operational efficiency

  • Team player but also able to work individually

  • Exceptional problem solving, time management, and organizational skills

  • Ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced environment

  • Keen to learn and expand the knowledge and skills

Why Proofpoint

Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success. We’re a customer-focused and driven-to-win organisation with leading-edge products. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly ‘culture-add’, and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply.

We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint! #LifeAtProofpoint

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

Proofpoint has been honored with five Best Places to Work Awards in 2024 by workplace culture leader Comparably, including Best Company Outlook, Best Global Culture, Best Engineering Teams, Best Sales Teams, and Best HR Teams.

To view additional awards, please visit www.proofpoint.com/us/news#awards

Proofpoint thrives on the invaluable contributions of our diverse workforce, which encompasses a kaleidoscope of lived experiences, thoughts, perspectives, and professional expertise. We attribute much of our success to our people, who are at the core of our organization and embody our people-centric ethos.

We hire the most innovative minds globally to safeguard our customers’ sensitive data and intellectual property. Our talented workforce develops and leverages our advanced technology, combining their expertise to provide comprehensive protection against threat actors and mitigate the risks posed by both malicious and negligent employees.

Cyberattacks have the potential to disrupt access to vital resources such as energy, water, transportation, healthcare, and financial services. At Proofpoint, our dedicated team works tirelessly to ensure world-class cyber resilience, protecting approximately 8,000 enterprise customers worldwide.

We are committed to creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment. We work every day to ensure that our employees feel that they are in a community that celebrates their unique identity, cultivates their sense of belonging, and invests in their professional growth. We have 9 employee-led employee inclusion groups which help support both employees and our organization by providing opportunities to network, discuss career and cultural development and uplift the corporate culture to create a more inclusive workplace.

At Proofpoint, we have a passion for protecting people, data, and brands from today’s advanced threats and compliance risks. We hire the best people in the business to:

  • Build and enhance our proven security platform

  • Blend innovation and speed in a constantly evolving cloud architecture

  • Analyze new threats and offer deep insight through data-driven intel

  • Collaborate with customers to help solve their toughest security challenges

We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect what matters most. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity—and why more than half of the Fortune 100 trust us as a security partner.

Proofpoint is an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability.

Proofpoint is an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability.

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