Onboarding Specialist
The corporate team at Light & Wonder comprises incredible talent that works across the enterprise, defying boundaries to provide essential services in an extraordinary manner to ensure the success of the organisation and the well-being of employees.
At Light & Wonder, the company brings games to life with bold ideas, innovative technology, and passionate people. As an Onboarding Specialist in the People Solution Centre, the role plays a pivotal part in creating exceptional first impressions for new employees joining the business across the EMEA region.
Working as part of the EMEA People Service Centre, the specialist coordinates every stage of the onboarding journey, ensuring new team members feel welcomed, supported, and set up for success from day one. The role collaborates with colleagues across Talent Acquisition, Payroll, People Partners, IT, Facilities and Hiring Managers to deliver a seamless, compliant, and engaging onboarding experience that reflects the company culture and values.
This role is for someone who is highly organised, passionate about employee experience, and thrives in a fast-paced environment where no two days are the same. The company is looking for people who are full of ideas, want to challenge the norm and work to its core values.
- Deliver a seamless end-to-end onboarding experience for new hires across multiple EMEA countries.
- Coordinate pre-boarding and onboarding activities with Talent Acquisition, Hiring Managers, Payroll, IT, Facilities, and other key stakeholders.
- Prepare and process employment documentation in line with local legislation, company policies, and compliance requirements.
- Monitor onboarding progress and ensure all pre-employment checks and requirements are completed before start dates.
- Maintain accurate employee records in Workday and other HR systems, ensuring high levels of data integrity.
- Conduct new hire inductions and provide onboarding guidance to employees and managers.
- Respond to onboarding-related queries within agreed service levels, providing a professional and customer-focused service.
- Support HR projects and continuous improvement initiatives that enhance processes and the employee experience.
- Ensure consistent application of HR policies and governance requirements across the EMEA region.
- Experience supporting HR administration, onboarding, employee lifecycle activities, or shared services operations (required).
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines simultaneously (required).
- Exceptional attention to detail and a commitment to maintaining accurate employee data (required).
- A customer-first mindset with a passion for delivering a positive employee experience (required).
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build effective working relationships across the business (required).
- Experience working with HR systems and employee records management (required).
- Workday experience would be advantageous (nice-to-have).
- Understanding of employment documentation, compliance requirements, and HR processes within a multi-country environment (required).
- A proactive, solutions-focused approach to problem-solving and process improvement (required).
- Ability to work independently while contributing effectively within a collaborative global team (required).
- L3 Certificate in People Practice or working towards (required).
- Annual performance bonus
- 25 days' holiday plus bank holidays
- 1 day paid leave to work on charitable projects
- 1 day paid for personal celebration e.g. birthdays
- Half Day for Health (encouraging you to take time away for you & your wellbeing)
- Up to 8% employer pension contributions
- A reward platform offering a cycle to work scheme and shopping and lifestyle discounts/cashback
- Remote GP Access alongside a wellbeing platform
- Private Medical Insurance
- Elective Benefits: Tastecard/ Travel/Dental Insurance/ Give As You Earn
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
Light & Wonder, Inc. is a leading cross-platform gaming company headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. Formerly known as Scientific Games, it rebranded in 2022 after divesting its lottery and sports-betting businesses to focus on gaming. The company operates across three segments - Gaming (slot machines, table games and casino systems under brands such as Bally, WMS and Shuffle Master), SciPlay (social casino games) and iGaming (online casino content). Listed in both the US and Australia, it supplies content and systems to casinos and online operators worldwide.