Railsbank Hiring for Talent Acquisition Specialist Job at London, England Full Time

About Railsr:

Railsr is the world’s leading global embedded finance experience platform that gives customers the ability to prototype, build and scale financial products. Railsr is in growth mode with hundreds of clients globally, end-users in the multi millions, Venture Capital funding from top firms like Clocktower Ventures and Visa and the most globally-enabled, digitally-native product in the FinTech platform space.

Railsr is continuing to grow its product capabilities and international expansion. It’s an extremely exciting time and the potential for companies to use Railsr to power and deliver their customer’s financial experiences is enormous.

The Opportunity:

Reporting into the Global Head of Talent Acquisition, the Talent Acquisition Partner will manage recruitment for our Technology division across the UK & Europe. This will involve partnering with our stakeholders to understand the business needs and delivering proactive direct search to source, engage and select the best talent. Beyond recruitment delivery, the role-holder will support the development of our employer brand and drive value-initiatives to ensure a high quality and diverse workforce. As we strive to develop a market-leading talent acquisition proposition, the team is encouraged to drive enhancements of our processes, systems, tools and training.

Your Responsibilities:

Business Partnering & Resource Planning

• Partner with stakeholders to define resource requirements and support the requisition approval process.
• Identify future skill needs and build a talent pipeline.
• Partner with the Hiring Manager to understand the role & person requirements, advise on the market conditions and agree the best approach. Challenge the Hiring Managers to think beyond technical skill-set and consider diversity, behavioural, cultural and team fit.
• Liaise with the Hiring Manager, Candidate, Reward and HR from intake meeting through to onboarding to give a seamless experience.

Employer Brand & Sourcing

• Proactively promote our employer brand and value proposition.
• Directly source candidates via multiple channels; heavy focus on LinkedIn Recruiter.
• Proactively engage prospective candidates to pitch our employer value proposition (EVP) and qualify against our company, role & person requirements.
• Build relationships with universities, colleges & schools and attend job fairs to build a pipeline for our early career programmes.
• On the exception, engage and manage recruitment agencies to support the hiring.

Quality & Diversity

• Present and walk through the short list with the Hiring Manager, conduct market referencing and organise testing and interviews.
• Work with the business to add value throughout the recruitment cycle to make better hiring decisions. Support and coach Hiring Managers on recruitment best practice and
• Adhere to talent selection standards and support the balanced assessment of a candidate’s alignment with our technical, cognitive, behavioural & cultural profile.
• Support diversity & inclusion initiatives and ensure this is embedded in our talent proposition.

Talent Acquisition Capability, Technology & Processes

• Strive to continuously improve our talent acquisition approach, systems, tools, processes and most importantly, ourselves as talent acquisitions professionals.
• Actively share knowledge, best practice and new ideas across the team.
• Assist the automation and standardisation of the recruitment cycle with heavy focus on embedding Talos applicant tracking system (ATS).
• Update Talos in real-time with a high level of accuracy & integrity, ensuring a clear audit trail.
• Produce and analyse recruitment MI & talent metrics to shape our approach.

Your Profile:

Attitude & Behaviours

• Highly professional and able to quickly establish credibility and maintain positive relationships with internal & external stakeholders.
• Exceptional communication skills – verbal, written and in meetings.
• Proactive self-starter with the drive to deliver results.
• Works with others in a collaborative and solutions focused manner to achieve measurable outcomes that improve business performance.
• Resilient individual with the ability to operate in a demanding and fast-paced environment.

Skills & Experience

• Good education (ideally Bachelor degree level) with demonstrable ability to quickly take on new information and apply themselves to new tasks.
• Significant recruitment experience, preferably within an in-house recruitment model. Candidates from an agency background are welcome and must demonstrate their capability to work on broader talent projects/tasks.
• Strong track record delivering technology recruitment across the UK & Europe.
• Advanced market knowledge within Technology & Financial Services.
• Experience building upon and improving existing recruitment processes and supporting value initiatives (e.g. D&I, recruitment training, etc.).

What we can offer you:

Purpose, Vision & Journey

• At Railsr, our vision is to make finance an amazing experience everywhere and accessible to everyone in the world.
• We are truly customer obsessed and adventurous in designing the best embedded finance experiences via our digital platform. Join us and be a part of challenging and changing the global financial services industry.

Career

• We’re a lean, fast-growing and agile Financial Technology organisation. It’s the perfect environment for you, if you enjoy a challenge, variety, thrive in ambiguity and most importantly, want to deliver real impact.
• We’re committed to innovation and development and this starts with our people. You are empowered to drive your own professional development and grow your skills.

Reward

• Beyond a competitive remuneration package, every Railsr employee gets equity. You will be part of an inclusive ownership model which offers accountability and significant reward potential.
• We look after your well-being with locally competitive benefits which can include enhanced parental leave, private medical, pension and more.

People

• Our teams work from different places to create amazing embedded finance solutions for our customers. We embrace flexible and hybrid working, but always putting our teams and customers needs first. This is part of our high-trust and mutual respect approach; with the expectation that we treat people as individuals and with respect.
• You will join and work with an international team with incredible passion and expertise in the FinTech industry.

Our Values:

Being an integral part of the Railsr team and sharing our values is important to us. The environment at Railsr is fast-paced, exciting, and dynamic. It suits people who love to collaborate and support one-another. We are all driven by the same values and are looking to welcome new people to the team who share these values. Our values are: ambition for our company, colleagues and ourselves and the freedom and expectation to own it, trust which we give freely and expect in return, treating each other as adults, curiosity with our minds open to fresh thinking in the constant pursuit of improvement and customer obsession ensuring that everything we do is with the customer in mind, we succeed when they succeed.

If you are eager to join a thriving, fast-paced, high growth company and contribute to shaping its future, this is the role for you to make a difference.

Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging:

Our global team is amazing – they bring great ideas, drive new plans and help make Railsr a fantastic place to work. In the last year, we’ve doubled in size, with 500 colleagues spread over 10 countries and 39 languages spoken. As we grow, we’re committed to making diversity, equity, and inclusion part of everything we do. Ensuring that we are recruiting, retaining and promoting a diverse mix of colleagues who are representative of our customers and communities is critical. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and actively encourage all applications, particularly those from under-represented groups. Thank you for joining us on this journey.

Please let us know if there is any support we can provide to ensure our recruitment process is fully accessible to you. You can contact us on [email protected] to discuss specific requirements