Global HR Compliance Specialist

About this role

SS&C is a leading provider of mission-critical, AI-powered technology and services empowering financial services and healthcare organizations to work smarter, faster, and securely. Founded in 1986, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has offices worldwide. More than 23,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Job Description

Job Title: Global HR Compliance Specialist           Locations: Jacksonville, FL or Kansas City, MO (hybrid work schedule)

About the Role The Global HR Compliance Specialist, reporting to the Director of Global HR Compliance & Employee Relations, supports the development and execution of SS&C’s global HR compliance strategy, with responsibility for helping ensure alignment with employment laws and regulatory requirements across multiple countries and regions. This role will partner with regional HR teams and HR Centers of Excellence to monitor evolving employment requirements, assess organizational impact, identify compliance risks, and support consistent and legally compliant HR policies, processes and practices across the employee lifecycle. The ideal candidate brings direct global HR compliance experience combined with strong analytical and technology capabilities. This individual must be able to independently research and assess complex requirements across jurisdictions, synthesize regulatory and operational information, identify potential risk, translate findings into clear recommendations, and drive work through implementation and follow-up. Success in this role requires strong ownership, attention to detail, sound judgment, a sense of urgency, and a continuous improvement mindset.

Why Join SS&C SS&C combines proprietary technology with deep industry expertise to support complex financial and health care operations. Our teams design, implement, and operate solutions that help clients manage data, automate processes, and scale their businesses with confidence.

You will work with industry experts, modern platforms, and evolving technologies, gaining exposure to real-world operational challenges and large-scale enterprise environments.

How You Will Make an Impact  • Monitor and assess evolving employment laws and regulatory requirements across applicable global, country, federal, state, provincial and local jurisdictions; evaluate organizational impact and translate changes into clear recommendations for HR policies, processes, systems, training and operating practices. Monitor compliance requirements, identify emerging trends and partner with appropriate stakeholders and Legal to determine when policies, practices, training or processes require modification.

• Partner with regional HR teams and HR Centers of Excellence, including Talent Acquisition, Employee Relations, Compensation, Benefits, Leave and Absence, Learning, HR Operations and HRIS, to identify jurisdiction-specific compliance requirements, assess risk and support legally compliant and consistent HR practices across regions.

• Support global HR compliance strategy and governance by identifying regulatory developments, assessing cross-border and regional impacts, and helping determine where policies, processes, controls or practices require modification.

• Conduct periodic HR compliance audits and risk assessments, identify gaps or emerging areas of concern, and develop actionable recommendations and remediation plans to strengthen compliance and reduce organizational risk.

• Manage and enhance global HR compliance and employee relations reporting, dashboards and metrics. Analyze trends, synthesize complex data and information, identify meaningful patterns and translate findings into actionable insights and recommendations for HR leadership and business stakeholders.

• Maintain compliance documentation, governance frameworks, controls and reporting that support internal and external audit requirements and provide visibility into compliance status, risks and corrective actions.

• Identify opportunities to streamline and automate recurring HR compliance, reporting, investigation tracking and data-management processes. Partner with HRIS, Technology and analytics teams to implement scalable digital solutions and improve operational efficiency.

• Support the development, review and implementation of global and regional HR policies, procedures and required employment-related training.

Required Experience • Master's degree and at least 1 year of related experience or Bachelor's degree and at least 3 years of related experience.

• Demonstrated experience supporting HR compliance across multiple countries or regions within a global or multinational organization.

• Demonstrated working knowledge of U.S. federal and multi-state employment compliance requirements, combined with experience researching and applying employment requirements across additional international jurisdictions.

• Demonstrated ability to evaluate differences in employment requirements across countries or regions and translate regulatory obligations into practical HR policies, processes, controls and business guidance.

• Demonstrated analytical capability, including the ability to gather information from multiple sources, analyze and synthesize complex data and regulatory information, identify risk and trends, and develop clear, actionable recommendations.

• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including experience working with data sets, formulas, lookup functions, pivot tables, and reporting. Strong proficiency across Microsoft Office applications is required.

• Demonstrated ability to independently prioritize and manage multiple initiatives, exercise sound judgment, work with a strong sense of urgency, and drive assignments from identification and analysis through recommendation, execution and follow-up.

• Strong relationship-building, written and verbal communication, and presentati

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