Talent Acquisition Specialist (Financial Crime)
Starling Bank, United Kingdom
Job Description
Hello, we’re Starling. We built a new kind of bank because we knew technology had the power to help people save, spend and manage their money in a new and transformative way. We’re a fully licensed UK bank with the culture and spirit of a fast-moving, disruptive tech company. We’re a bank, but better: fairer, easier to use and designed to demystify money for everyone. We employ more than 3,000 people across our London, Southampton, Cardiff and Manchester offices.
Our recruitment process:
Interviewing is a two way process and we want you to have the time and opportunity to get to know us, as much as we are getting to know you! Our interviews are conversational and we want to get the best from you, so come with questions and be curious.
Following your application being reviewed, you can expect the below:
Stage 1 - Introductory call with Anna Griffin, Talent Acquisition Partner (hiring manager)
Stage 2 amp; 3- Role related interviews
Closing date: Friday 22nd March, 12pm.
Working arrangements: This role will complete the first 6 weeks from our office, following this the team spend at least 2 days a week in the office. This role works Monday - Friday 9:00 - 17:30.
About the role:
Everyone at Starling gets the chance to own interesting things from day one, and we’re told one of the best things about working here is the ability to achieve a lot in a short space of time.
Our mission is to change banking for good. We can’t do that without our dedicated and passionate employees. Our People team deals with all aspects of our employee journey - talent acquisition, employee onboarding, talent management, total rewards and employee experience and culture. Our People Team is dedicated to finding fantastic people and creating an enjoyable working environment where employees can thrive, grow and develop (plus all the legal/regulatory stuff underpinning that).
Talent Acquisition - a core function of our People team - is responsible for identifying, acquiring, assessing, and hiring the fantastic employees who help make Starling a success.
We are hiring for a Talent Acquisition Specialist to join our Operations Team. As a Talent Acquisition Specialist, from day one, you will focus on supporting our hiring needs for a variety of different areas as we continue to execute on our ambitious growth plans throughout 2024. This role will initially focus and own recruitment across Financial Crime, including Fraud (Investigations amp; Prevention), Customer amp; Enhanced Due Diligence, Claims, AML amp; CTF and our Strategy amp; Change functions. This role will support recruitment needs across the Operations Team as required (including volume teams such as Customer Service and Onboarding).
Key Responsibilities include:
- Manage multiple end to end recruitment processes
- Sourcing, shortlisting and conducting first round interviews; evaluating candidates and providing feedback; through to offer negotiation and on-boarding.
- Manage volume recruitment whilst ensuring all candidates have a great experience
- Work closely with the Talent Acquisition Partner and broader People team to build, and manage MI to help drive data driven decisions about our sourcing strategy and hiring process.
- Be proactive with sourcing platforms and look at new and innovative ways of finding the best talent
- Attend careers events to help raise awareness of Starling Bank, being a brand ambassador and always looking for new ways to showcase Starling as an employer of choice.
- Continually look to improve processes.
- Support a large number of hiring managers in the business
Requirements
- Recruitment experience is essential, we're open to candidates from a purely agency, in house or blended background. Inhouse experience is preferred
- Experience recruiting for Financial Crime vacancies is highly desired,
- Ability to work at pace, things move fast here at Starling so you’ll need to be comfortable working quickly.
- Experience of high volume recruitment is preferred
- Organised with excellent attention to detail. It’s the little things that matter, you should be able to demonstrate giving great candidate experience.
- Be data driven and look at ways to ensure we are being proactive with hiring
Benefits
- 25 days holiday (plus take your public holiday allowance whenever works best for you)
- An extra day’s holiday for your birthday
- Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off
- 16 hours paid volunteering time a year
- Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme
- Life insurance at 4x your salary amp; group income protection
- Private Medical Insura