Global HR Business Partner in London

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.

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.
• 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 have strong influencing skills and a coaching approach to help shift mindsets within management teams.

What will make you successful?

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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).

What we offer

• We put you in control of your 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 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. All requests are confidential and will not affect your candidacy.

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.