HR Intern

About us

Many clients have been coming in since the firm opened in 1988. We share a building with a title company and a dentist.

Overview

Get hands-on HR generalist exposure: documentation, attendance tracking, engagement activities and HR analytics in Excel. Remote within New Zealand. The team meets in Auckland once a quarter, travel covered. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Responsibilities

• Assist with performance review cycles by sending forms and chasing pending ones.
• Build simple HR dashboards in Excel: headcount, attrition, joining and exit trends.
• Support the payroll team with input sheets and document checks.
• Draft and update HR policies such as leave, remote work and reimbursement, for review by the HR manager.
• Prepare offer letters, appointment letters and experience letters from templates.

What we're looking for

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating between December 2027 and June 2028.
• Available for the full internship period.
• Based in New Zealand for the duration of the internship.
• Eligible to work in New Zealand.
• Good command of MS Excel or Google Sheets: VLOOKUP, filters, basic pivots.
• Laptop with MS Office or Google Workspace and stable internet.
• Organised and comfortable with routine documentation work.
• Basic understanding of HR functions from coursework: recruitment, onboarding, payroll, labour law.

Preferred

• Exposure to an HRMS like Keka, Zoho People, greytHR or BambooHR.
• Interest in HR analytics.
• Familiarity with Canva for internal posters and announcements.

What you get out of it

• Exposure to employee engagement in a fully remote company.
• Using an HRMS and building HR reports in Excel.
• Day-to-day HR generalist work at a real company, not case studies.

Duration: 3 months

Start date: Feb 2027

Stipend: $1,700-$2,150 a month

What we offer

• Access to online training.
• Flexible working hours.
• Reference on completion.
• Home working allowance.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Feb 2027.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Ryan Associates.