Job Description
The Junior HR Business Partner will support the LATAM HR team in the day-to-day partnership with leaders and employees across the region. This role will help with employee matters, HR programs, talent processing, and local HR requirements, while building a strong understanding of the business and developing toward a broader HRBP role.
- Support managers and employees with day-to-day HR questions and needs.
- Work closely with the LATAM HR team on employee relations, performance, talent, and organizational matters.
- Support onboarding, promotions, internal transfers, compensation changes, leaves, and terminations.
- Help coordinate performance reviews, talent discussions, succession planning, and development actions.
- Partner with Recruiting, Payroll, Compensation, Benefits, and Learning & Development as needed.
- Support employee engagement, recognition, retention, and culture initiatives.
- Follow up on HR actions with managers and make sure deadlines and commitments are completed.
- Assist with HR reports, headcount information, turnover data, and other personnel metrics.
- Support local HR requirements and help ensure company practices are aligned with local regulations.
- Participate in regional HR projects and other initiatives based on business needs.
- Build strong relationships with employees and managers and act as a reliable HR point of contact.
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Psychology, or a related area.
- Four to five years of HR experience, ideally in an HR Generalist, HR Operations, People Partner, or similar role.
- Experience working in a multinational or regional environment is preferred.
- Good understanding of core HR processes.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Organized, practical, and able to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
- Comfortable working with HR data, reports, and Excel.
- Able to handle confidential information with good judgment.
- Strong attention to detail, creative, open-minded, persistent, highly collaborative and passion for and understanding of Fortinet business
- Experience working in agile and complex tech industries
- English is required. Spanish is a plus.