About us
Cynergy Bank is the UK’s human digital bank serving the needs of ‘scale up’ or medium sized and fast-growing SMEs; professionals; high net worth and mass affluent individuals, in essence those market segments that still value human service enabled by great technology.
We recognise that professional and personal lives often overlap and our mission is to help empower our customers to achieve their ambitions by serving all their interdependent banking needs. We provide a comprehensive range of digitally enabled products and services to meet the property finance, business and commercial banking, private banking and personal savings needs of our customers.
Our human and digital model transforms banking for customers who still value a face-to-face relationship that is enabled by the latest digital technology.
We partner with firms such as Google Cloud, Cigniti and Slalom as we continue to innovate in the human digital space.
The Role:
As People Partner, Direct Resourcing & Talent your role will span across talent acquisition, talent management and talent development, providing a diverse and varied mandate.
As our internal recruiter you’ll be responsible for our recruitment activity and our direct sourcing proposition, including both implementing the strategy and approach to successfully source key talent.
Supported by a coordinator / onboarder, you will support hiring activity for all vacancies across the Bank, typically frontline sales and relationship management, technology and digital roles. The Bank is focused on ensuring we have a diverse and inclusive colleague mix and culture and solid succession planning - creating a pipeline of talent in our recruitment channels to support this is an important part of this role. You’ll be a trusted Recruiting Business Partner to our hiring managers and will be instrumental in helping them scale up and achieve their strategic hiring needs.
Working as part of the Talent team you will support the Head of Talent on the development and execution of the Bank’s talent strategy. You will have the opportunity to get involved with succession planning, talent management, and learning and development activities, taking ownership for key deliverables depending on your level of expertise.
You will also be part of the drive towards evolving the People & Culture function, adopting and maximising the potential of technology and automation opportunities to drive efficient, modern and technology driven recruitment and broader talent offer. You will lead much of this work, bringing your expertise and insights to help make an impact.
Responsibilities:
- Manage the candidate journey from sourcing through to interview.
- Play a pivotal role in devising and implementing ways to attract candidates.
- Conduct specific headhunting projects to source high quality candidates for live vacancies and succession planning.
- Source new candidates via headhunting, database, networking, advertising and LinkedIn.
- Build strong relationships with candidates in order to develop and maintain a pipeline of relevant and high-quality candidates.
- Champion and raise our brand profile to help attract talent.
- Write job adverts and manage applicants on multiple job boards.
- Screen CVs and organise interviews, sending relevant tests and appointments.
- Maintain all administration related to the recruitment process, ensuring all recruitment activity is in line with resourcing standards, enabling the organisation to identify and attract key people with the capability to create competitive advantage.
- Provide feedback to hiring managers and candidates.
- Negotiate offers and ensure all paperwork is sent to prospective employees. Liaise with the TA Coordinator to ensure successful onboarding for all new starters.
- Have ownership of TA talent projects and recruiting channel management.
- Maintain relationships with key stakeholders and 3rd party suppliers.
- Help to shape and lead talent and leadership development priorities aligned to our People Strategy.
- Work with Head of Talent to design inclusive learning and development offers in collaboration with senior leaders and external partners.
- Evaluate our development offers to ensure that they have the desired impact and provide a good return on investment
- Enable succession planning and Bank-wide capability building.
- Partner with business leaders and People & Culture Advisory team to assist with strategic talent management interventions that enable business objectives.
- You will be part of a business facing function that provides support to colleagues and leaders across the Bank and to the People and Culture leadership team. You will champion and enact a one team mentality and build close relationships across the team.
- You will have the opportunity and access to additional People & Culture projects and activities as capacity allows
Essential Knowledge & Experience:
Experienced in-house recruiter with a strong track record of delivering successful candidate placements, preferably from financial services and / or technology background.
Skilled in actively sourcing candidates, taking inspiration from the latest trends in recruiting.
Creative and curious in approach to recruitment, sourcing and problem solving reflecting our challenger bank ethos.
Experience of contributing to the broader talent agenda, including supporting succession planning and L&D activities.
Well versed and comfortable with how technology, data and new practices can evolve and bring enhancements to the talent agenda, including recruitment proposition and processes – must be comfortable with using an ATS, onboarding platform, Excel, AI tools etc.
Goal-oriented individual, focused on delivering high quality results.
Committed to delivering the best possible service to clients.
Resilient, and highly motivated. Confident self-assured, clear communicator, keen networker.
Significant stakeholder management experience up to and including ExCo level – you will have direct interactions with our CEO and his leadership team.
Ability to work at pace is critical
Highly developed interpersonal skills, including empathy, diplomacy, and confidentiality
Desirable Knowledge & Experience:
Experience in organisational development, talent or leadership development.
Knowledge of behavioural and cultural change methodologies.
Experience in analysing training needs and delivering impactful learning solutions.
Helpful to have experience with LMS technology / platforms.
Cynergy Bank plc is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority. Eligible deposits with Cynergy Bank plc are protected by the UK Financial Services Compensation Scheme.
For more information on Cynergy Bank visit www.cynergybank.co.uk
Company Benefits
- Competitive salary and company bonus
- Competitive holiday allowance plus bank holidays and day off for your birthday
- Option to purchase an additional 10 days holiday
- Pension contribution and life assurance
- Income protection scheme and season ticket loan
- Medical cover (after probation)
- Electric car scheme and money coach (after probation)