Human Resources Business Partner at Thunes

Our Solutions

We act as a trusted, neutral aggregator in a deeply fragmented industry. We offer end-to-end payments solutions to tackle the speed, cost-efficiency and accessibility challenges for emerging markets:

• Business payments
• Remittance processing
• Mass payouts
• Virtual accounts / invoice payments

Context of the role

This role will involve dealing with the full spectrum of HR initiatives such as recruitment and selection, employee engagement, on-boarding, support and guidance to functional managers. This is a great opportunity for a career driven, experienced, commercial focussed HR professional who has a board range of generalist skills.

Key role responsibilities

• Support from a HR perspective taking Thunes to the next phase of growth through HR initiatives to support the growth plans and evolve the current HR priorities
• Lead the communication and embedding of people related initiatives
• Ensure performance management and employee development initiatives are successfully embedded to support both employee and company success
• Support the full spectrum of HR guidelines and processes across the global business
• Responsible for HR and Admin support
• Maintain HR documents and files
• Ensuring HRIS is well maintained with leave records, personal data and headcount related information
• Ensure the Payroll, annual country tax requirements are administered within the team effectively with outsourced providers
• Support employment related administrative processes such as health benefits, pensions, employment passes etc
• Support the end to end onboarding process for new joiners to Thunes
• Develop strong working relationships with managers to understand their business and work pro-actively with them to provide appropriate business solutions
• Work with managers to support recruitment
• Work with managers to ensure they understand the processes and have the tools and knowledge to deal with people related activities and performance management
• Ensure continuous review of HR practices to ensure alignment to country-specific employment laws for the countries we operate in.

What we are looking for

• Talented HR professional with a proven track record of delivering results
• Minimum 6+ years generalist HR experience
• Personal confidence, gravitas, willing to challenge
• Commercially astute and strong relationship building skills
• Strong communication skills
• Experience within a large corporate and more recently a high-growth startup
• International exposure in an HR role
• Degree qualification or above
• Creative problem-solver, able to think out of the box, with the ability to deliver strong ‘fit for purpose’ operational HR results
• Driven to deliver personal best.
• Excellent organisation skills, ability to work under pressure and manage priorities.
• Tech savvy with at least intermediate to advanced competence in Word, Excel and Powerpoint