Talent Acquisition Specialist London, England
Job description
About Railsr
Railsr is the world’s leading embedded finance experience platform that enables any business to prototype, build and scale financial products. Our vision is to make finance an amazing experience, everywhere in the world, with any brand. With hundreds of clients across the UK and EU, and end-users in the multi millions, Railsr has the most globally-enabled, digitally-native product in the FinTech platform space.
Following a successful acquisition led by D Squared Capital, Railsr continues to develop our product capabilities and expand our customer base. It’s an exciting time and the potential for any brand to use Railsr to power and deliver their customers’ financial experiences is enormous.
The Opportunity
Reporting into the Chief People Officer, the Talent Acquisition Specialist will manage the entire recruitment process 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 a pipeline for our early career programmes.
- On the exception, engage and manage recruitment agencies to support the hiring.
- Take ownership of the entire onboarding process, ensuring that every new starter has a seamless onboarding experience.
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.
- Previous experience overseeing the onboarding of new joiners, and working with relevant stakeholders to deliver a seamless and efficient onboarding experience.
- 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 - Help make amazing embedded finance experiences accessible to everyone and transform global financial services.
- Career - Build your career in an innovative, adventurous and inclusive environment where everyone has the opportunity to make a difference and develop their skills.
- Reward - Competitive remuneration package with generous benefits and the potential to be rewarded with equity.
- People - Work with talented, passionate and supportive people from all over the world in a flexible, hybrid environment with trust and mutual respect at its heart.
Our Values
The environment at Railsr is fast-paced, exciting, and dynamic, underpinned by a clear set of values that drive a healthy and successful culture.
- Ambition - for our company, colleagues and ourselves and the freedom and expectation to own it.
- Trust - which we give freely and expect in return.
- Curiosity - with our minds open to fresh thinking in the constant pursuit of improvement.
- 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 fast-paced, collaborative and inclusive 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 and we’re proud of how well our diverse mix of people collaborate and are fully committed to continuing to make diversity, equity and inclusion part of everything we do. Railsr is an equal opportunities employer and we actively encourage all applications, particularly those from under-represented groups.
Please let us know if there is any support we can provide to ensure Railsr’s recruitment process is fully accessible to you. You can contact us on [email protected] to discuss specific requirements.
