Senior People Partner, iwoca
£70-80k
+ Share options
1-3 days a week in office
Online loans for small businesses
Open for applications
Online loans for small businesses
201-500 employees
Open for applications
£70-80k
+ Share options
1-3 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To give small business owners a great experience while getting the finance they need.
Role
Who you are
- Strong experience providing specialist/expert HR advice and influencing others both at operational and strategic levels
- Curious and open-minded to learn about iwoca’s approaches to people management and people strategy, and how to use your HR skills to achieve successful outcomes within this context
- Excellent stakeholder management
- Exceptional attention to detail - you care about the quality and accuracy of your work, you can avoid or find mistakes so that others don’t have to
- Genuinely passionate about people strategy and culture. You continuously develop your skills and update on best practice by networking, reading books, listening to podcasts etc
- You truly value feedback and evangelise the benefits of thoughtful disagreement in an organisation
- You’ll have curiosity and interest to learn about employment law in other markets (specifically DE)
- Ideally, you have some knowledge of German employment law and process, but this isn’t essential
- You don’t need to be able to speak German (we already have a German speaker in the team), however any German language skills are a bonus
What the job involves
- As a Senior People Partner at iwoca, you’ll play a key role in helping to build and manage high-performing and happy teams
- You’ll partner directly with specific managers / teams in order to do the following:
- You’ll be a trusted advisor to support, influence and challenge managers on topics such as performance management, identifying and supporting our high potential team members, driving engagement
- You’ll bring experience and empathy to help manage complex and/or sensitive employee relations issues and ensure these are responded to and resolved fairly, swiftly and in line with iwoca’s values and policies
- You’ll provide 1-1 coaching directly to managers to help build their leadership capabilities
- More broadly, you’ll help to shape iwoca’s overall People strategy by:
- Diagnosing issues we ought to address regarding our iwoca team and culture, and work with the rest of the People team to determine the best plan of action to address
- Working on evaluating new benefits and policies, to help strengthen our employee value proposition and People practices
- Working with our People Experience, Talent and Ops Strategy teams to gather data and meaningful insights that help identify People issues and trends (attrition, performance, gender pay gaps, industry trends etc)
- In this role, you’ll work with teams based in the UK and Germany. You’ll help ensure culture cohesion across different teams while also supporting local nuances
- You’ll also get to learn about the employment law landscape and how it varies between UK and Germany
Salary benchmarks
Our take
UK SME's are the backbone of a complex economy that is constantly changing, so the need for fast and responsive access to finance is becoming more and more important to ensure their success and growth. iwoca allows SMEs access to business loans in less than a minute, with its API and business marketplace partnerships.
With offerings like iwoca's, gone are the days where waiting up to eight weeks for a loan decision was viable. Its simplified business loans of £1,000 - £500,000 come with no fees attached, and applying online takes no more than five minutes. The ready availability of iwoca loans gives business owners a level of certainty, so that they can make instant decisions to help their business grow.
iwoca has made a number of partnerships with other players in the business finance space, including an impressive industry-first invoice checkout integration with QuickBooks. Funding raised by the company, which is now operating at net profitability, will enable it to meet a recent surge in demand for corporate loans. The company has made several billion in funding available to over 100,000 businesses since launching, positioning itself as a leading European fintech.
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back within 2 weeks
33% female employees
-2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Opportunities to learn
"Great opportunities available to learn from both individuals through shadowing, and teams through presentations and even secondment opportunities -..."
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Aug 2019
$13.1m
GRANT
Feb 2019
$26.2m
SERIES D
Total funding: $95.2m
Company benefits
- Flexible working across all teams.
- Twice a year we rent houses in places like Sicily and the French Alps where each team can work together for a week poolside.
- Share options after six months.
- Comprehensive health insurance and cash plans.
- Gym discounts and weekly yoga classes.
- Each floor of iwoca HQ has a fully stocked fridge for breakfast.
- Every Friday we unwind with beers and wine.
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave for new parents plus a nursery benefit.
- Unlimited unpaid leave.
- The time and budget to invest in your professional development.
Company values
- Motivated: Going to work shouldn't feel like a slog, so we want everyone in the team to personally care about what they're working on. We stay motivated by celebrating our wins, learning from our mistakes, and always looking for new gaps to step into.
- Smart: At iwoca being smart isn't about what you know, it's about how you think. Smart thinking means looking at each problem by asking ‘why’ first, then figuring out ‘how’.
- Humble: We know all ideas are flawed, all code has bugs, and everyone makes mistakes - it’s how we learn. For us, being humble means you question yourself first, rather than your team.
- Growth Mindset: We think there's always a better way to solve a problem. So we never let ourselves get comfortable with being good enough.
Company HQ
Fitzrovia, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Christoph Rieche
(CEO)7 years of experience in finance, most recently as a VP at Goldman Sachs.
James Dear
(Head of Systems & Numbers)Previously a VP at Deutsche Bank. Has a PhD in Physics from King's College London.
People progressing
Joined as a Customer Onboarder, moved into the Broker Team and has most recently been promoted to Partnerships Manager.
Diversity & Inclusion at iwoca
- We work hard to make iwoca a place where everyone feels welcome, where you can confidently be yourself. We understand that diversity isn't an optional add-on, it's the core ingredient of what makes us great.
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