Global HR Business Partner, Swift
Global payments network
Open for applications
Global payments network
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make international transactions instant, frictionless and interoperable.
Role
Who you are
- Ability to understand and be curious about the business and their challenges and articulate effectively how the HR strategy and HR initiatives enable the business strategy
- Excellent stakeholder management, relationship building, influencing skills
- An inquisitive mindset with the ability to constructively challenge and coach senior leaders and management teams
- Comfortable with data and leveraging insights to inform and influence decisions
- Highly collaborative approach with a 'One HR' mindset
- Contribute creative ideas to business challenges or to help improve our HR offerings
- Customer centric mindset, always putting the employee and people leader experience first
- Sense of ownership and accountability
- Ability to apply a strategic mindset to solve business challenges and to also support more operational matters to get things done
- Must be fluent in English and able to communicate well across all levels/audiences within the organization, with strong storytelling and presentation skills
- A minimum of 4 years generalist HR experience gained in global environments, in medium-large sized companies, including a minimum of 2 years of HR Business partnering experience gained at senior level (partnering with management teams and senior leaders) and of scaling your support to large teams
- Experience of having supported organizations transform and challenging the status quo
- Experience of managing sensitive people cases to satisfactory outcomes balancing various needs and legal requirements
- Experience of rolling out programmes and initiatives in a way that is relevant to the business context of the groups supported
- Experience of empowering leaders so they can best serve their teams’ needs and lead by example
- Knowledge of the HR industry (i.e. keeping on top of trends, challenges and best in class practices)
- Experience of simplifying HR offerings and automating HR processes
- Ideally some understanding of HR practices in EMEA (and of other regions if possible) and experience of having worked in unionised environments
What the job involves
- An important part of the role is about empowering our leaders so that they drive high performing teams and enhance the employee experience of their team members
- To this end, you will spend time coaching and influencing leaders to demonstrate the Swift leadership principles in their daily work
- You will be comfortable using data to provide actionable insights, empower people leaders and enhance operational efficiency
- You will contribute to the development and empowerment of leaders who role model Swift’s leadership principles
- You will contribute to secure Swift's future by helping develop and execute against workforce plans that identify future skills, foster a diverse and inclusive workforce, and maintain a sustainable cost base.
- You will help drive Swift’s success by promoting and fostering a strong performance and learning culture, while continuously enhancing the employee experience.
- This will include varied activities such as Performance Management (i.e. performance review process, talent reviews, poor performance management) or the rolling out of our employee listening strategy and the implementation of actions that improve employee engagement or supporting the adoption of our DEI programmes
- You will bring your own experience, ideas and perspectives to help evolve our HRBP operating model and ensure we offer best in class partnership and offerings to our client groups
- You will contribute positively to the evolution of the HRBP role at Swift and the One HR team mindset by collaborating with others, aligning and scaling our practices and demonstrating a growth mindset
- You will have strong influential skills as well as a coaching approach to help change mindsets within management teams and help leaders see what’s possible when it comes to aligning and optimizing talent so that our people deliver on our strategy today and in the future
Our take
SWIFT was founded in 1973 to serve as the bedrock of the international payments system. A cooperative society which is owned by its member financial institutions, it is a vital piece of the global financial infrastructure, securely transmitting payment instructions between over 11,000 institutions in almost every country. SWIFT handles half of all international transactions, on average 40 million every day.
SWIFT's only direct competition in the traditional cross-border payments sector are bodies such as China's CIPS and Russia's SFMS. Yet, lacking the trust and membership of SWIFT these are unlikely to make serious inroads in the international payments sector.
In recent years the competitive landscape for international transfers has been disrupted by the large-scale uptake of cryptocurrency. SWIFT has not been immune, facing competition from high-speed blockchain payment networks such as Ripple. However SWIFT has moved quickly to adapt, introducing SWIFT Global Payments Innovation (gpi) to increase the speed of transactions to nearly that of its competitors but with greatly enhanced visibility. It is also researching blockchain technologies, partnering with companies like Chainlink to trial its own cross-chain protocols that will allow it to continue to thrive in the new financial landscape.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- We put you in control of career
- We give you a competitive package
- We help you perform at your best
- We help you make a difference
- We give you the freedom to be yourself
Company HQ
La Hulpe, Wallonia
Leadership
Javier Perez-Tasso
(CEO, not founder)Has held numerous roles at SWIFT, becoming CEO in 2019. Prior to this, was Head of Product Manager, CMO and Chief Executive of the Americas and UK Region.
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