Senior People Partner

About Airwallex

Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. More than 676,000 businesses, including McLaren Racing, Qantas, SHEIN, and TikTok, use us, directly or through our platform partners, to run their financial operations or build and monetize financial products of their own.

We started in Melbourne in 2015 to build the infrastructure global commerce runs on. We're the regulated backbone behind global payments: not by accident, but by design. A decade plus, 85+ licenses, and a financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.

We're co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with more than 2,300 people across 27 offices. We hire builders with founder-level energy, people who move fast with good judgment, dig in with real curiosity, and make calls from first principles rather than waiting to be told what to do. Read our operating principles to see it in full.

The Role

The People Business Partner takes primary HR business partnership with global Operation teams. You will provide expert guidance and data-driven insights to help people leaders achieve growth objectives, and support a high performance, engaged culture. By forming effective relationships with people across the organization you will drive forward new initiatives, resolve blockers to success, and advocate for improvements at both a local and global level.

Responsibilities:

Be the People Partner for commercial team, working closely with the commercial leadership team.

Lead the people and talent priorities and plan development, ensure the annual calendar of people related activity is executed effectively.

Partner with and coach managers to build high performing and engaged teams, including review employee engagement data and enabling them to lead on action plans and support execution

Provide coaching on matters including leadership development, workforce planning, policy and procedure, employee engagement, performance management, career development

Ensure that any employee relations issues are identified, reported, investigated, and resolved

Reduce risk and ensure regulatory compliance by maintaining knowledge of legal requirements related to day-to-day employee management, and understand when to escalate issues

Partner with the People Team across the globe to gain alignment on people philosophy and programs where achievable

Qualifications:

Tertiary qualification in Human Resources or equivalent practical experience

5 or more years of HR Generalist / HRBP experience, including working knowledge of regional employment laws and best practices

Experience in a fast-growth or start-up environment preferred

Demonstrated success partnership alignment to build and improve company culture and increase employee engagement

Discretion and sound judgment when dealing with sensitive and confidential information

Comfort working with cloud technologies such as Slack, Zoom, Google Suite, Lever, and BambooHR

Very strong EQ, with fine tuned instincts and problem-solving skills

Proficient at dealing with complexity.

Excellent communication and presentation skills, both written and oral

Fluent English communication, adaptive in global working environment

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Equal opportunity

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