Senior Talent Acquisition Business Partner

We’re a leading Investor Services group offering end-to-end services in administration, accounting, reporting, regulatory and compliance needs of the investment sector worldwide.  We employ a global workforce of 5,800+ people across 25 jurisdictions and have assets under administration (AUA) exceeding US$750 billion. We work with 13 of the world’s top-15 private equity firms. 

Our services are underpinned by a Group-wide commitment to ESG and best-in-class technology including a global data platform and innovative proprietary tools supported by in-house experts.                                                                                           

Above all, what makes us different is our people. Operating as trusted partners to our clients, we deliver intelligent solutions through a combination of technical expertise and strong relationships based on deep client understanding. 

We’re driven by our Group purpose, to power people and possibilities.

THIS ROLE

Partners with the hiring managers and the people team to drive and execute hiring for open vacancies – owns and ramp up projects

WHAT YOU WILL DO 

Responsibilities (how we will measure success

• Ensures all KPIs are achieved at target (minimum commitment: Productivity, Consistent Excellence and delivering high candidate experience levels and more).
• Proactively and independently drives one’s area of responsibility.
• Leads, guides and impacts overachieving team initiatives and projects.
• Responsibility for all dimensions of customer satisfaction of own vacancies nps and actively work on improvement.
• Partner with other TA partners and CERs

Key competencies for position and level

• Has an expert understanding of assigned BU, country, region or function in their scope and talent market.
• Understands and shapes the role and requirements and develops the right talent attraction strategy to ensure high quality of hire with reasonable time to fill and costs (incl, job ad channel strategy).
• Sources directly, identifies and wins over hard-to-find and scarce passive candidates across multiple channels.
• Actively grow and converts from talent pools
• Continuously improves talent assessment approaches, using IQ-EQs interview toolkit with assigned stakeholders ensuring structured interview approach and assessment of both internal and external talent
• Understand IQ-EQs reward strategy and benefits and is able to win over candidates with our purpose and values
• Expert understanding of candidates’ needs, requirements, situations, and aspirations and, based on this, negotiates offers and closes a very high-offer acceptance rate.
• Analyses and presents data from internal and external sources, takes ownership of action plans and leads conversations with assigned stakeholders.

Key behaviours we expect to see

In addition to demonstrating our Group Values (Authentic, Bold, and Collaborative), the role holder will be expected to demonstrate the following:

• Lives and actively promotes TA principles.
• Identifies areas of improvement and develops solutions with guidance.
• Shares know-how, best practices and experience within the team to increase excellence.
• Is a proactive expert and trusted partner to hiring managers up to L6; influences their decision-making and steers the hiring of their business unit in their scope
• Actively drives adoption of productive hiring culture and secures senior sponsorship at BU level.
• Adjusts their communication style to the audience and curates the information accordingly
• Is responsible for successful collaboration and partners with stakeholders HRBPs, and peers to increase the impact
• Owns, engages, trains and enables on TA-wide topics with business stakeholders applying data to influence decisions
• Manages escalations with appropriate solutions
• Ability to generate a high volume and high quality candidate pipeline under very tight timelines
• Advise stakeholders on market conditions

• Comprehensive remuneration: Motivating financial packages based upon market rates for your role and is proportionate to your qualifications, level of experiences and skills profile
• Pension Scheme: Generous employer contribution with the ability to allow and increase employee contributions
• Wellbeing: Additional social benefits such as private health and dental cover, life assurance, discounted gym membership, eye test and corporate GP
• Annual leave: All our employees are entitled to 25 days paid leave, plus all UK public holidays. Enhanced maternity and paternity, including shared parental leave and adoption leave
• Flexible working: We recognise the value of working flexibly and is keen to ensure all employees enjoy an excellent work-life blend. As such, we are open to conversations with employees related to setting up flexible working arrangements
• Support and development: We will ensure you have the right training, tools and development plan to grow and improve your skills every day.

ABOUT YOU 

You hold a Bachelor/Master degree; preferred fields of study include: Human Resources, Business Administration, Psychology, Economics, Marketing, or related field

• Excellent communication skills: fluent in English (German and/or French is an advantage)
• You have 3- 5 years’ experience as a Recruiter
• Experience in conducting (competency-based) interviews
• In-depth knowledge of talent sourcing through LinkedIn
• You understand our business. It is preferable if you worked with a focus on positions such as legal, accounting
• Professional demeanor to deal with candidates of all levels

Sustainability is integral to our strategy and operations. Our sustainability depends on us building and maintaining long-term relationships with all our stakeholders – including our employees, clients, and local communities – while also reducing our impact on our natural environment.  

There is always more we can, and should do, to improve – whether in relation to our people, our clients, our planet, or our governance. Our ongoing success as a business depends on our sustainability and agility in a changing and challenging global landscape. We’re committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable and diverse culture for our people, led by our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion steering committee. 

Our learning and development programmes and systems (including PowerU and MyCampus) enable us to invest in growing our employees’ careers, while our hybrid working approach supports our employees in achieving balance and flexibility while remaining connected to their colleagues. We want to empower our 5,800+ employees - from 94 nationalities, across 25 countries - to each achieve their potential.  Through IQ-EQ Launchpad we support women managers launching their first fund, in an environment where only 15% of all private equity and venture capital firms are gender balanced.

We’re committed to growing relationships with our clients and supporting them in achieving their objectives. We understand that our clients’ sustainability and success leads to our sustainability and success. We’re emotionally invested in our clients right from the beginning.