Deloitte US

The Separation Specialist facilitates a smooth and seamless off-boarding process for employees.

Work you’ll do

This role manages separation requests and serves as the point of contact and subject matter expert for Talent Business Advisors, FSS PPMDs, Talent Relations, and Performance Management, as well as other areas within Deloitte Services such as Payroll, ITS, and Records Management.

• Reviews activities to ensure adherence to compliance and service level agreements (SLAs).
• Responsible for meeting with practitioners leaving Deloitte, ensuring all exit related items are completed, and exit discussions are conducted. Serves as a point of contact for the professional for other firm processes including:
  • Payroll: Manages payroll related issues that may arise, which includes working with individuals who request assistance with outstanding repayment obligations and negotiating the repayment schedule.  Also responsible for the approving when items not repaid are sent for collection.
  • Independence: Counsels multiple stakeholders to ensure all financial obligations related to restricted entities and attest clients are settled to avoid any conflicts with Independence rules.
  • Office of Confidentiality and Privacy: Ensures certification of compliance policies are adhered to for all exiting employees.  
  • Records Management: Responsible for ensuring client engagement files are returned to minimize risk to the firm.
  • IT: Guides separated professionals to support the return of firm assets, and initiate access controls to reduce risk of Deloitte equipment and confidential information being accessible after individuals leave.
  • Federal Security Clearances: Advises the FedSec team of all late voluntary separations so they may debrief the individual leaving. Coordinate with the FedSec team on all involuntary separations to ensure their ability to debrief the individual after the exit meeting before leaving the premises.   
• Assists Talent Business Advisors, Business Leaders, Talent Relations, and Performance Management with involuntary separation actions to achieve business objectives and mitigate reputational and legal risk.
  • Supports Talent Relations with high-risk separations to determine appropriate approach.
  • Supports Talent Business Advisors, when applicable, to coach and prepare various parties for their role in the exit meeting, review any issues, advise on meeting approach and delivery, and discuss logistics.
  • Attends the involuntary meeting with business leaders. Assists in the discussion of employee relations issues if the impacted professional becomes defensive, combative or raise issues of unfair treatment. Guides the conversation accordingly and away from the business leader to help the impacted professional focus on the transition.  
  • Facilitates coordination with Talent Relations and the business for additional severance requests
• Partners with the Office of Confidentiality and Privacy to review and resolve data breach issues and concerns for separating professionals to mitigate risk to the firm.
  • Coordinates and communicate with exiting professionals regarding potential data breach to discuss the files in question and assess whether there is a violation.
  • For any violations that occur, escalate accordingly to the Office of Confidentiality and Privacy and CI Champion.
  • Attends meetings with business leaders, CI Champions, OCP and TR to determine next steps when it’s determined that employees are demonstrating malicious intent.
• Performs other related job duties as assigned.

The successful candidate will possess:

• Excellent organizational skills, prioritizing, and multi-tasking abilities
• Creative problem-solving skills
• Ability to think both strategically and tactically
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

The team

The Employee Lifecycle Events (ELE) team is part of the Talent Services (TS) channel of the Deloitte Talent Organization.  TS delivers a breadth of services through an innovative and customer-centric shared services model. As a strategic solutions epicenter, we combine deep expertise, strategic business relationships, modernized capabilities and an investment in our people to deliver innovative, agile, and value driven outcomes.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelors’ Degree or equivalent with 3 years of related experience
• Proficient in Microsoft Office
• HR Operations Experience
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future
• Ability to travel 0-10%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve

Preferred:

• Prioritizes and independently executes responsibilities; ability to work with minimal instruction
• High degree of professionalism and integrity and ability to work in a highly confidential environment
• Ability to interface with all levels within the firm
• Initiative and self-direction; works on assignments that are moderately difficult, requiring judgment in resolving issues 
• Excellent client service skills
• Ability to adapt to a changing environment and approach challenges with creativity and resourcefulness
• Ability to manage complex projects with virtual teams
• Decision making required with sensitivity to involuntary separations
• Excellent program/project management skills
• Experience in a professional services firm or large/matrix-driven corporation with overseas or outsourced operations
• Experience with ServiceNow and SuccessFactors

How you’ll grow

At Deloitte, our professional development plan focuses on helping people at every level of their career to identify and use their strengths to do their best work every day. From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe there’s always room to learn. We offer opportunities to help sharpen skills in addition to hands-on experience in the global, fast-changing business world.  From on-the-job learning experiences to formal development programs, our professionals have a variety of opportunities to continue to grow throughout their career.

Benefits

At Deloitte, we know that great people make a great organization. We value our people and offer employees a broad range of benefits. Learn more about what working at Deloitte can mean for you.

Deloitte’s culture

Our positive and supportive culture encourages our people to do their best work every day. We celebrate individuals by recognizing their uniqueness and offering them the flexibility to make daily choices that can help them to be healthy, centered, confident, and aware. We offer well-being programs and are continuously looking for new ways to maintain a culture where our people excel and lead healthy, happy lives.  Learn more about Life at Deloitte.

Corporate citizenship

Deloitte is led by a purpose: to make an impact that matters. This purpose defines who we are and extends to relationships with our clients, our people and our communities.  We believe that business has the power to inspire and transform. We focus on education, giving, skill-based volunteerism, and leadership to help drive positive social impact in our communities.  Learn more about Deloitte’s impact on the world.

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The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $60,000-$110,500.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

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