Junior People Partner - London, United Kingdom - Airwallex

Airwallex

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Airwallex is the leading financial technology platform for modern businesses growing beyond borders.

With one of the world's most powerful payments and banking infrastructure, our technology empowers businesses of all sizes to accept payments, move money globally, and simplify their financial operations, all in one single platform.

Established in 2015, our purpose is to connect entrepreneurs, business builders, makers and creators with opportunities in every corner of the world.

Today, Airwallex has a global footprint across Asia-Pacific, Europe, and North America.

This is a brand new role to join our growing team that will partner with Airwallex employees and managers across the EMEA region.

You will provide tactical and strategic expert guidance and data-driven insights to help people leaders achieve growth objectives and drive a high performance, engaged culture.

This is an ideal role for someone who likes to build things from the ground up, take on key projects and likes to execute.

By forming effective relationships with people across the business you will drive forward new initiatives, resolve blockers to success and advocate for improvements at both a local and global level.

Responsibilities:

Be the People Partner working closely with multiple department leaders in EMEA
Partner with and coach managers to build high performing and engaged teams
Provide coaching on matters including leadership development, employee engagement, performance management, career development
Ensure that any employee relations issues are identified, reported, investigated and resolved
Reduce risk and ensure regulatory compliance by maintaining knowledge of legal requirements related to daytoday employee management and understand when to escalate issues
Partner with the People Team across the globe to gain alignment on people philosophy and programs where achievable, and localise programs as needed
Participate in performance reviews and help identify and develop talent throughout the organisation

What you bring:

Previous experience of working as a HR Generalist/HRBP
Strong UK employment law knowledge is essential, and employment law knowledge in Amsterdam, Lithuania and Israel is preferred
Experience in a fastgrowth or startup environment, and comfortable working with ambiguity and changing priorities is desirable
Ability to rise to any challenge and bring thought leadership
Have a solution based mindset, with the ability to identify problems and drive high impact initiatives
Demonstrated success partnership alignment to build and improve company culture and increase employee engagement
Discretion and sound judgement when dealing with sensitive and confidential information
Very strong EQ, with fine tuned instincts and problemsolving skills.

At Airwallex you'll have the ability to make an impact in a rapidly growing, global fintech.

We want you to share in our success, which is why you'll be offered a competitive salary plus valuable equity within Airwallex.

We also like to ensure we create the best environment for our people by providing a collaborative open office space with a fully stocked kitchen.

We organise regular team building events and we give our people the freedom to be creative.

Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent.

We don't regard colour, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status.

If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.