Swift Transportation
Global HR Business Partner
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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.
Role Overview
You will partner closely with individual leaders, leadership teams and other stakeholders as applicable, including the HR Partner Lead, Finance, HR Centres of Expertise, Risk, initiative teams and works councils, to implement our people strategy and support HR initiatives that help our client groups achieve their business goals. An important part of the role is empowering leaders to build high-performing teams and enhance the employee experience for their team members. To this end, you will spend time coaching and influencing leaders so that they demonstrate Swift’s leadership principles in their daily work.
Our global HR team is represented across the USA, EMEA and APAC regions, and we partner with client groups whose leaders and employees are located worldwide. As a result, this role offers opportunities for cross-cultural working and global learning. In addition, our team environment is highly collaborative and supportive. We support one another, learn from each other, and regularly share best practices and experiences to help elevate our HRBP operating model, enabling us to better address the more strategic needs of our client groups.
There will also be opportunities to lead or contribute to strategic global HR initiatives outside of your client groups and to support the evolution of the HRBP operating model at Swift.
What to Expect
- 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 help secure Swift’s future by developing and executing 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 strong performance and learning culture while continuously enhancing the employee experience. This will include varied activities such as performance management, including the performance review process, talent reviews and poor performance management; rolling out our employee listening strategy; implementing actions that improve employee engagement; and supporting the adoption of our Inclusion, Belonging and Opportunity programmes.
- You will be comfortable supporting sales groups as well as engineering groups or corporate functions.
- 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 consistent support to our client groups. You will contribute positively to the evolution of the HRBP role at Swift and to the One HR team mindset by collaborating with others, aligning and scaling our practices, and demonstrating a growth mindset.
- You will have strong influencing skills and a coaching approach to help shift mindsets within management teams. You will help leaders see what is possible when aligning and optimising talent so that our people can deliver on our strategy today and in the future.
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What Will Make You Successful?
Competencies and Skills
- Ability to understand the business and its challenges, and to articulate effectively how the HR strategy and HR initiatives enable the business strategy.
- Excellent stakeholder management, relationship building, influencing and presentation 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 OneHR mindset.
- Ability to contribute creative ideas to business challenges and help improve our HR offerings.
- Customer-centric mindset, always putting the employee and people leader experience first.
- Sense of ownership and accountability.
- Ability to add strategic HR value to business challenges while also being involved in operational decisions to get things done.
- Must be fluent in English.
Knowledge & Experience
- A minimum of five years’ generalist HR experience gained in global environments and medium-to-large-sized companies, including at least three years of senior-level HR Business Partnering experience partnering with management teams and senior leaders, and experience scaling support to large teams.
- Experience supporting organisational transformation and constructively challenging the status quo.
- Experience managing sensitive people cases to satisfactory outcomes while balancing different needs and legal requirements.
- Experience 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, including keeping up to date with trends, challenges and best-in-class practices.
- Experience simplifying HR offerings and automating HR processes, including through the use of AI.
- An understanding of HR practices in EMEA and other regions, as well as experience engaging with employees’ representatives (i.e. works councils).
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- We help you perform at your best
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- 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. An environment in which everyone’s voice counts and where you can reach your full potential regardless of age, background, culture, colour, disability, gender, nationality, race, religion or veteran/military status.
What We Offer
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.
We are committed to an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require a reasonable accommodation related to accessibility during your application or interview, please contact accessibility-Sysgroup@swift.com or indicate this in your application.
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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.
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