Ebury is a hyper-growth FinTech firm, named in 2021 as one of the top 15 European Fintechs to work for by Glassdoor and AltFi. We offer a range of products including FX risk management, trade finance, currency accounts, international payments and API integration.

We are recognised by our employees for: 

• Having a warm, dynamic and smart culture (A number of our leadership team started their careers in consulting or investment banking). 
• We're a driven and determined team with a laser focus. 
• We have a supportive and open leadership team. 
• Ebury has a truly meritocratic culture giving real opportunities for career growth. 
• Everyone has the opportunity to impact and create change. 
• We are still a start-up in many ways, enabling individuals to accelerate their careers by having much more opportunity, and recognition, without the constraints of bureaucracy. 

Summary: 

-Partner with key leadership teams in Central Europe, to build effective relationships to enable you to proactively identify opportunities to resolve people challenges in Benelux, France, Germany, Switzerland and Scandinavia. 

-Execution of the HR strategy in the Central Europe region. 

-Manage the HR Team with onsite HR support in Germany, Switzerland and France

-This role will suit someone who has experienced some years of working as an international HR Business Partner and wants to help build further on a senior level in managing others also. 

The Role: 

-Partner with key leadership teams, to build effective relationships to enable you to proactively identify opportunities to resolve people challenges, leveraging the HR Centres of Expertise where appropriate to deliver innovative solutions. 

-Provide ongoing support to the management teams, offering objective and practical support and resolutions on all employee relations matters as necessary.

-Consult with leaders on optimising people practices for their areas, including organisational design, people development, team performance, and talent and succession planning. 

-Coach and build the capability of leaders to anticipate and pre-empt people-centric organisational issues. 

-Lead disciplinary and/or grievance meetings (letters of invites, meeting minutes, letters of the outcome, etc).

-Manage and coordinate the monthly payroll process

-Rolling out of HR initiatives such as annual pay reviews, engagement surveys, talent management, etc

-Partner with leadership teams for effective engagement survey result action plans.

- Set up Talent and Succession planning across our Executive Team functions. 

-Partner closely with our Recruitment BP’s to ensure a seamless and proactive resourcing process for our leaders. 

-Collaborate with our other HR Centres of Expertise and provide the ‘voice of the customer’ back to the wider HR Team in order to build tools, policies, and products that enhance Ebury's employee value proposition, which ultimately improves business performance. 

Candidate profile: 

-Our HR infrastructure is basic (however this is changing quickly) and we’re creating an entrepreneurial culture across the HR team, so a roll your sleeves-up and pragmatic mindset is essential. Someone who enjoys being in their comfort zone will struggle. 

-At our heart, we are a sales-driven financial services business with over 50% of our employees working in the Front Office. This environment demands a robust mindset, an outcome-driven focus, business acumen, and strong interpersonal skills from all those in the HR team to actively consult and influence business leaders. 

-There’s plenty of ambiguity across the business so we need individuals who excel in environments that lack structure but at the same time enjoy establishing and building clarity. 

-Strong written and verbal communication skills, an affinity with data, attention to detail and accuracy are essential. 

-The business operates at an incredible pace (on occasions, too quick) so we need individuals with drive, hunger, and ambition but at the same time, they have the confidence, experience, and capability to know when to diplomatically challenge as well as think ahead a few steps. 

-This role will suit someone with a solid understanding of employee relations & employment law in Central Europe and understand the HR processes. 

-You are a native Dutch speaker, with professional competency in English

- French language skills beneficial

About Us

Founded in 2009, we are headquartered in London and have more than 1300 staff with a presence in more than 20 countries worldwide. Cultural diversity is part of what makes Ebury a special place to be. From Sao Paulo to Dubai, Bucharest to Toronto, we enjoy sharing team experiences and celebrating success across the Ebury family.

Hard work pays off: in 2019, Ebury received a £350 million investment from Banco Santander and has won internationally recognised awards including Financial Times: 1000 Europe's Fastest-Growing Companies.

None of this would have been possible without our proudest achievement: our great people. Enthusiastic, innovative and collaborative teams, always ready to disrupt and revolutionise the fast-paced FinTech sector.

We believe in inclusion. We stand against discrimination in all forms and have no tolerance for the intolerance of differences that makes us a modern and successful organisation. At Ebury, you can be whoever you want to be and still feel a sense of belonging no matter your story because we want you and your uniqueness to help write our future.

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