Human Resources Business Partner

About Clear Street: 

Clear Street is modernising the brokerage ecosystem. Founded in 2018, Clear Street is a diversified financial services firm, replacing the legacy infrastructure used across capital markets.

We started from scratch by building a completely cloud-native clearing and custody system designed for today’s complex, global market. Clear Street’s proprietary prime brokerage platform adds significant efficiency to the market, while focusing on minimising risk, redundancy, and cost for clients. Our goal is to create a single source-of-truth platform for every asset class, in every country, and in any currency.

By combining highly-skilled product and engineering talent with seasoned finance professionals, we are building the essentials to compete in today’s fast-paced markets.

The Role: 

The People team is responsible for end to end management of all of the processes, systems and initiatives that impact our most valuable asset.  In this role you will not only work across Talent Acquisition to recruit candidates but once an individual decides to accept an offer to  join Clear Street, you will become their single point of contact for onboarding, new hire orientation, day 1 of employment as well as throughout their tenure at the firm.  The People Operations team coordinates with other areas across Clear Street including IT, Compliance, Information Security as well as across the entire People team responsible for Total Rewards and HR Business Partnering.   

Clear Street UK is looking for a HR Business Partner to join the team to drive our impactful people activities as we continue to grow and expand our business. This is a very hands-on role working across the business at both a strategic and operational level. You will partner across the teams and act as a trusted advisor, supporting and driving our global people strategy in alignment with our overall objectives. 

You Will:

• Serve as a main point of contact for employees and management to address and resolve workplace issues, conflicts, and concerns fairly and objectively
• Management of the end-to-end recruitment, including sourcing, screening, interviewing, and hiring and developing and implementing effective talent acquisition strategies to attract top candidates.
• Ensure a positive candidate experience and manage employer branding initiatives.
• Own the onboarding process from offer through day one for all new employees; actively solicit feedback from employees and hiring managers that go through the process to find opportunities for improvement as we want this to be a signature experience.  
• Manage all aspects of employee learning and development, including planning and delivering programmes to ensure employee development and competency.
• Facilitate and drive key annual processes including goal setting and performance review process, promotion and talent management
• Manage sensitive employee data, ensuring it is compliant, secure, up to date, thorough, and accessible when needed for scheduled and ad/hoc reporting requests
• Demonstrate best practice and consistently find ways to improve our processes and policies. 
• Serve as point person for day-to-day HR requests (PTO, benefits and HR systems questions, etc.). 

Requirements:

• At least five (5) years working in human resources within a FinTech or financial services firm
• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field preferred
• Prior experience interacting with both senior leadership and their teams, should have a strong desire to be client facing as well as tactical
• Ability to comprehend, interpret, and apply the appropriate sections of applicable laws guidelines, regulations, ordinances, and policies
• Excellent verbal and written communication, interpersonal, negotiation, conflict resolution, and organisational skills, and attention to detail
• Ability to remain tactful, calm, and persuasive in controversial and/or confrontational situations
• Sound judgment and decision-making skills along with the ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Proven ability to handle sensitive and confidential information with integrity and discretion
• Thorough understanding of UK and EU employment laws

We offer:

At Clear Street, we offer competitive compensation packages, company equity, pension, gender neutral parental leave, and full medical and dental insurance. Our belief has always been that we are better as a business when we are all together in person. As such, we are requiring employees to be in the office a minimum of three days per week.

Our top priority is our people. We’re continuously investing in a culture that promotes collaboration. We help each other through challenges and celebrate each other's successes. We believe that modern workplaces succeed by virtue of having high-performance workforces that are diverse — in ideas, in cultures, and in experiences. We put in the effort to make such a workplace a daily reality and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  #LI-Hybrid