Chief People Officer jobs in United Kingdom

ABOUT US

We’re the world’s leading provider of secure financial messaging services, headquartered in Belgium. We are the way the world moves value – across borders, through cities and overseas. No other organisation can address the scale, precision, pace and trust that this demands, and we’re proud to support the global economy.

We’re unique too. We were established to find a better way for the global financial community to move value – a reliable, safe and secure approach that the community can trust, completely. We’re always striving to be better and are constantly evolving in an ever-changing landscape, without undermining that trust. Five decades on, our vibrant community reflects the complexity and diversity of the financial ecosystem. We innovate diligently, test exhaustively, then implement fast. In a connected and exciting era, our mission has never been more relevant. Swift now has a presence in 200+ countries and legal territories to serve a community of more than 12,000 banks and financial institutions.

About the role

Are you an experienced HRBP looking for a new challenge in a uniquely positioned global organization with a highly collaborative environment? Then this HRBP opportunity within our dynamic global HRBP team may be for you, and we are interested in talking to you. Come grow your career with us!

The HRBP role at Swift is multifaceted and evolving.

You will partner closely with management teams and other stakeholders as applicable (including other HR colleagues) to implement our people strategy and help your client groups achieve their business goals. It requires a strategic mindset with the ability to influence leadership teams and employees and help the organization transform, as well as the ability to focus on more operational HR matters to ensure the day-to-day HR needs of your client groups are met.

Globally our HRBP team is represented across the USA, EMEA and APAC regions and we partner with client groups that have leaders and employees located worldwide. As a result, the role presents opportunities for cross-cultural working and learning globally. There are also opportunities to lead or contribute to global HR initiatives to help advance our people strategy which allow for deeper exposure to Swift global OneHR Team & other stakeholders.

Our team environment is highly collaborative and supportive. We have each other’s back, learn from each other, and regularly share best practices and experiences to help us continuously improve the support we provide to our client groups and evolve our HRBP operating model.

What to expect

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 futureby 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 strongperformance and learning culture, while continuouslyenhancing theemployee 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.

What will make you successful?

Competencies and Skills

• 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.

Knowledge & Experience

• 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 we offer

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

We give you the freedom to be yourself. We are creating an environment of unique individuals – like you – with different perspectives on the financial industry and the world. A diverse and inclusive environment in which everyone’s voice counts and where you can reach your full potential.

If you believe you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact us to request accommodation.

Don’t meet every single requirement? At Swift, we are dedicated to building a workplace where people can bring their full selves and ideas to the team, so if you are excited about this role, we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every single qualification.