Role Summary
We are looking for a seasoned HR Business Partner to join a Global team of People & Talent Professionals for a 16-month contract. The successful candidate will partner with OANDA’s Engineering client groups, providing advice and support on strategic issues and will support OANDA’s technical People Leaders in implementing Talent Initiatives. This position supports Technical People Leaders and is responsible for providing progressive and value-added solutions for managing people. This role will require partnership and collaboration with various business leaders to build the organizational capability, improve its structure, enhance productivity, develop work culture, thereby helping the business achieve its strategic objectives.
The successful candidate will have demonstrated experience as a Business Partner ideally within a global organization. You will proactively partner with leaders in our Toronto, Poland and London offices to develop integrated solutions that align employees and management with the company’s business objectives. You will ensure People practices and processes are designed to support and enable the business and thrive in a fast- paced, technology driven company. While this position is based out of our Toronto office, OANDA offers a flexible work arrangement with flexibility to work from a home office.
Responsibilities
Workforce planning: Provide strategic support to the management of workforce planning, which would include attracting, developing, and retaining the best talent.
Problem resolution: Provide support to business leaders in anticipating and solving organizational issues, managing people and in adapting to change.
Employee focus: Collect feedback from employees and take actions towards meeting their expectations while ensuring alignment with business objectives. Represent the voice of employees and work towards increasing their engagement.
Developing the work culture: Works toward developing an organizational culture that keeps employees highly motivated and engaged, where issues are addressed quickly, and where growth and development are among the highest priorities.
Consulting: Perform a consulting role for driving organizational effectiveness initiatives.
Support business leaders: Provide support to business leaders in executing their division-specific strategies by giving relevant input through talent discussions and assistance in decision-making.
Identifying issues in HR operations: Identify gaps in the performance of people operations teams, provide recommendations that support strategic people plans and the organizational objectives.
Support Business Partners: Provide support to Business Partners by collaborating with them in matters concerned with employee lifecycle management, managing talent pipeline, leadership development, performance assessment, and succession planning.
Administration: Perform administrative tasks concerned with investigations on people matters, ensuring legal compliance, HRIS reporting, and the development and delivery of training programs.
Programs: Lead global initiatives in areas such as equity, diversity & inclusion, corporate social responsibility, or immigration & relocation depending on experience and interest.
Skills
Planning and Organizing: Works independently to prioritize tasks that are the most important in the present moment. Plans, organizes, and schedules tasks to stay aligned with the team’s work to meet business objectives.
Communication & Problem-solving: Clear communicator with an ability to identify problems quickly and resolve them in a quick, effective, and seamless manner while causing the least amount of hindrance to operations.
Relationship management: Works with others and forges productive working relationships with team members or across divisions. Builds work relationships with internal and external stakeholders to achieve mutual objectives with the aim of achieving organizational goals.
Action Planning: Can independently develop action plans required for performing necessary tasks based on identification of business requirements.
Organizational Effectiveness: Can apply knowledge, skills, and experience towards maintaining a positive and productive organizational work culture, and nurture values that allows the organization to fulfill its mission while managing structural changes over time.
Managing employee relations: Ensures that the organization’s work and its activities are managed within a clear framework that values employees’ needs while embodying corporate values and policies and adhering to legal requirements.
Team player: Thrives in a collaborative environment, is more than willing to share knowledge and resources with others, is aware of fulfilling the collective objectives when working as a team.
Qualifications
A Bachelor’s degree, diploma or certificate in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
10+ years of experience in people operations, preferably as a people partner or in a generalist role.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in order to build strong relationships with multiple stakeholders and to handle confidential/sensitive information with tact and diplomacy
Ability to work flexible hours on occasion as required.
OANDA Global Corporation is a diverse and global team with offices around the world. We value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to OANDA. We are committed to creating and sustaining a collegial work environment in which all individuals are treated with dignity and respect and one which reflects the diversity of the community in which we operate. We provide an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. Candidates selected for an interview will be contacted directly. If you require accommodation during the recruitment and selection process, please let us know. We will work with you to provide as seamless a recruitment experience as possible.
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