Senior Investigator

DESCRIPTION

Key Responsibilities:

• Execute the right environment roadmap to drive global direction in the short to medium term, ensuring global initiatives and programs align with aspirational goals.
• Support the development of key performance indicators to measure elements contributing to a positive work environment.
• Monitor assessment results and manage global improvement initiatives based on outcomes.
• Maintain right environment tools and resources to enable business leadership and human resources to assess their work environment.
• Provide coaching and direction to managers and human resources on the appropriate utilization of tools.
• Engage with leaders and human resources to determine if a coaching (low-touch) or consulting (high-touch) approach is appropriate, based on the right environment challenges and opportunities presented.
• Develop an understanding of business needs and engage with managers and human resources to identify appropriate actions and solutions.
• Develop communications to business leadership, human resources, and employees that align with the right environment communication strategy.
• Provide appropriate data to third-party consultants/providers in the right environment assessment process.
• Analyze and interpret data generated from the ethics investigation process to drive functional improvements in current policies, practices, and processes.
• Analyze data from key performance indicators and other data sources to generate prescriptive and predictive right environment trends and correlations.
• Manage and/or support ad hoc global-wide projects aimed at improving a positive and inclusive work environment at Cummins.
• Identify opportunities for new and improved learning and development programs and initiatives, create content, and recommend appropriate communication and delivery.
• Coach and mentor junior members of the team.

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college in Human Resources, Business, Audit, or a related field.

• Communicates Effectively: Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Courage: Stepping up to address difficult issues, saying what needs to be said.
• Demonstrates Self-Awareness: Using a combination of feedback and reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and weaknesses.
• Global Perspective: Taking a broad view when approaching issues, using a global lens.
• Instills Trust: Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity.
• Manages Complexity: Making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
• Persuades: Using compelling arguments to gain the support and commitment of others.
• Change Management: Applies the Cummins structured process and tool set for engaging individuals and organizations through change to achieve and sustain business results and outcomes.
• Conducting an Investigation: Utilizes interpersonal skills, sound judgment, and investigation tools/processes to resolve reported violations of Cummins standards in a way that promotes our values and ethical principles; conducts effective interviews and analyzes information; clearly articulates findings and makes recommendations verbally and in writing.
• Cultural Agility: Leverages multiple cultural frameworks, values, and norms; adapts style to be effective across cultures; recognizes and addresses one's privileges, biases, and cultural preferences; commits to continuous learning and improvement in diversity, equity, inclusion, and cultural competence; seeks and utilizes feedback from diverse sources.
• Facilitation: Guides group discussions or training by creating an active environment where questions are posed, perspectives are shared, and debates occur with the goal of gaining understanding, analyzing issues, resolving conflict, exploring solutions, or making decisions.
• Human Resources Consulting: Collaborates with partners to observe the environment and apply sound judgment informed by knowledge, skills, and experiences to diagnose, identify, and optimize opportunities to provide holistic solutions, while balancing the needs of stakeholders, primarily employees, with those of the organization.
• Data Analytics: Discovers, interprets, and communicates qualitative and quantitative data; determines conclusions relying on knowledge of business or functional frameworks; simultaneously applies statistics, data validity, data visualization, and problem-solving approaches to effectively extract meaningful patterns and business insights; presents conclusions and outcomes that enable data-driven business decisions.
• Values Differences: Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.

• Investigates a variety of workplace investigations into alleged violations of company policy across business units in a fair, independent, and unbiased manner. Cases may include HR-related matters, misconduct, fraud, conflict of interest, quality, sourcing, EHS, information technology, and security.
• Develop and manage investigation plans, update cases in the case management platform, and conduct Reporter, Witness, and Subject interviews; complete investigative reports and summaries and recommendations.
• Understand the requirements of conducting investigations in respect of employee interviews, data privacy, employment requirements, and unions, including the prevention of sexual harassment.
• Partner with Ethics and Compliance and Right Environment to identify, understand, and analyze trends, enabling the organization to respond to address systemic issues.
• High level of personal integrity and ability to handle sensitive and confidential matters in a respectful and caring way.
• Culturally sensitive, flexible, and able to work well independently and with a team.
• Minimum 5 years' experience in conducting workplace investigations and/or professional experience in HR, audit, compliance.