HR Manager

Overview

Connecting clients to markets – and talent to opportunity

With 4,300 employees and over 400,000 retail and institutional clients from more than 80 offices spread across five continents, we’re a Fortune-100, Nasdaq-listed provider, connecting clients to the global markets – focusing on innovation, human connection, and providing world-class products and services to all types of investors.

Whether you want to forge a career connecting our retail clients to potential trading opportunities, or ingrain yourself in the world of institutional investing, The StoneX Group is made up of four segments that offer endless potential for progression and growth.

This role is responsible for supporting the Brazil HR Business Partners in providing a proactive, effective, business focused HR service to a defined employee population in one or more business units in Colombia, working closely with HR colleagues from the HR Centre’s of Excellence (CoEs) as appropriate. The jobholder will work in partnership with local management to advise them on HR policies, procedures and processes in accordance with business objectives and HR best practice, as well as providing an HR service to employees within this population.

You will be responsible for ensuring the accurate and timely processing of payroll for our StoneX Colombia based employees. You will play a crucial role in maintaining compliance with relevant legislation, regulations, and company policies. The ideal candidate has in-depth knowledge of Colombian payroll processes, strong attention to detail, and excellent analytical and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Support the Global HRBPs in the execution of strategic HR plans and objectives for the relevant business unit(s) within a defined local employee population.

• Partner with local management to develop an understanding of business strategy and objectives and provide expert HR advice and support in accordance with business objectives, HR policies and procedures, local legislation, regulatory requirements and local HR best practice.
• Work closely with HR colleagues within the respective CoEs – i) Talent Acquisition, ii) Talent Management & Development, iii) HR Operations in order to contribute to:

• Rewarding staff through competitive and industry relevant compensation and benefits plans;

• Provide advice to managers and employees on all aspects of the employee life cycle, including: recruitment and selection, performance management, compensation, employee relations, employee development, engagement and wellbeing.

• Ensure that all local documentation, but especially offer letters and contracts of employment for new hires are up-to-date and accurate and work closely with Global HRBPs and/or internal/external legal counsel to ensure they reflect any approved bespoke terms and conditions or arrangements.

• Advise managers on employee relations (ER) matters relating to performance/capability, conduct and employee grievances, recommending the use of informal/formal capability, disciplinary, and grievance processes as appropriate, escalating issues to Global HR Business Partners where necessary.

• Manage (or contribute to managing) restructuring and redundancy exercises as well as employee dismissals for reasons of performance, conduct etc., in accordance with business objectives, local employment law and market practice, escalating issues to Global HR Business Partners where necessary.

• Provide advice and manage relevant HR processes relating to employee transfers and promotions, ensuring any justified salary increases are awarded in line with HR policy and any required internal approvals.
• Provide all relevant data to payroll in a systematic and timely manner, relating to joiners, leavers, transfers, and salary adjustments; and provide detailed payroll checks at month-end.

• In partnership with the Reward Team, contribute to annual benchmarking of roles within defined population against market compensation surveys from approved supplier(s), ensuring job-matching is accurate and timely.

• In partnership with the Reward Team, contribute to managing the annual compensation review for defined population, under the guidance of the Global HRBPs, taking into account results of market compensation surveys, ad hoc market data, internal peer compensation and HR compensation policy.

• Review and analyze business management information and metrics including employee headcount data, starters and leavers, employee retention rates etc. in order to consider and advise on initiatives that will bring positive change to the business.
• Proactively consider and advise on HR and business initiatives to promote the growth and development of employees within their roles and careers.

• Lead or contribute to HR Projects within own team and/or across other HR teams, as determined by Global HRBPs (e.g., employee engagement surveys; initiatives to better promote diversity & inclusion)

• Administer and control local payroll operations ensuring that all data has been processed accurately by the payroll provider.

• Process using third party payroll providers while holding them accountable to their SLAs

• Ensure payroll processing is in accordance with payroll accounting requirements. Reconcile payroll accounts in collaboration with the Finance and business unit teams.

• Maintain reconciliations of the payrolls, ensuring that the payroll data is verified and checked against previous monthly data.

Qualifications

• Degree (preferably in Human Resources or related subject) and/or HR qualification.
• Prior experience in a payroll/HR organization, including managing multinational payrolls.
• Good knowledge of local employment law.
• Knowledge and awareness of the importance of local regulatory requirements within Financial Services (Preferable).
• Extensive experience within a generalist HR role, (preferably within Fintech or Financial Services), with demonstrated success of building working relationships with business managers.
• Experience of advising business managers on a range of HR policies, procedures and processes, adhering to HR best practice.
• Experience of advising on or managing at least some types of employee relations issues/cases.
• Strong verbal and influencing skills.
• Strong written communication and report writing skills.
• Strong analytical skills and experience dealing with HR metrics.
• Strong attention to detail, recognising the importance of regularly checking own work and work of others.
• Experience of working effectively within a team and ideally of collaborating with HR colleagues from different teams.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous situations and in situations that constantly change.
• Experienced user of one or more HR systems, as well as MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Understanding of challenges of operating within a global environment, building alignment globally while executing locally (Preferable)