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Staff HR Compliance Specialist (SEA & Australia)

AMD· Human Resources
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Penang, MalaysiaFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

HR compliance expert responsible for leading compliance, employment governance, audit readiness, regulatory change implementation, and project execution across Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Thailand, and Indonesia. Partners with Legal, Employee Relations, HRBPs, Payroll, and other functions to ensure compliant policies and processes, governance, and audit readiness.

Responsibilities

  • Monitor employment law’s regulatory updates and assess operational impact on HR policies, processes, systems, documentation, and employee lifecycle activities.
  • Coordinate implementation of approved statutory requirements covering wages, working hours, leave, social security, employment contracts, appointment letters, and other mandatory records through respective COEs.
  • Perform periodic statutory reporting compliance checks, identify gaps or process deviations, assign actions, and monitor remediation through closure.
  • Support implementation and localization of employee rule book as required in partnership with Legal, Employee Relations, and relevant COEs.
  • Translate approved requirements into practical workflows, checklists, manager guidance, employee communications, and operating procedures.
  • Maintain country compliance frameworks, statutory calendars, risk registers, control documentation, audit files, evidence repositories, and remediation logs.
  • Coordinate internal reviews, statutory audits, regulatory inspections, and compliance assessments by preparing complete and accurate documentation and evidence.
  • Produce dashboards, RAG reports, scorecards, and governance updates highlighting compliance status, overdue actions, trends, and material risks.
  • Escalate unresolved or systemic compliance gaps with clear facts, business impact, ownership, and recommended operational next steps.
  • Facilitate root-cause analysis and strengthen controls, documentation quality, and accountability to prevent recurrence.
  • Manage compliance and regulatory implementation projects from assessment and planning through execution, governance review, closure, and transition to business-as-usual operations.
  • Define scope, deliverables, success measures, owners, RACI, timelines, dependencies, controls, risks, and governance routines.
  • Coordinate Legal, Employee Relations, HR Operations, HRBPs, Payroll, Finance, Total Rewards, HR Technology, HR Service Centre, Communications, and business stakeholders.
  • Track milestones, actions, decisions, risks, issues, dependencies, and escalations; prepare concise governance and executive status updates.
  • Coordinate approved change-management activities, including communication, readiness, process or system updates, and training materials.
  • Guide HR stakeholders on the consistent execution of approved statutory and policy requirements.
  • Explain compliance controls, process requirements, ownership, and evidence expectations in clear, business-friendly language.
  • Partner with Legal for legal interpretation and advice, and with Employee Relations for case-specific or workforce-relations matters; refer issues outside this role’s execution and governance remit to the appropriate owner.
  • Maintain disciplined follow-up, confidentiality, and sound judgment while managing competing priorities and stakeholder concerns.
  • Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and strengthen HR compliance processes across the covered countries.
  • Promote a culture of compliance ownership, proactive risk identification, continuous improvement, and operational discipline across HR teams.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in human resources, Law, Business Administration, Industrial Relations, or related discipline
  • Certification or diploma in Labour Laws / Employment Law / Industrial Relations preferred

Skills

Required:Employment-law complianceCompliance monitoring and audit readinessPolicy and process implementationRisk identification & remediation trackingRegulatory project managementChange management & stakeholder communicationLegal coordination

Benefits

  • Benefits offered are described: AMD benefits at a glance (link in posting)
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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