About Airwallex

Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 100,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale.

Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 1,500 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech located across more than 20 offices across the globe. Valued at US$5.6 billion and backed by world-leading investors including Sequoia, Lone Pine, Greenoaks, DST Global, Salesforce Ventures and Mastercard, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you’re ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.

We are looking for a People Operations Partner who can deliver excellent People Operations initiatives in the UK, Netherlands, Lithuania and Israel (EMEA). You will improve managers and employees’ experience throughout the employee life cycle in Airwallex. This will be done through developing, implementing and optimising HR policies, procedures and programmes. This role is based in the UK and will report into the Regional People Director. 

The People Operations Partner supports overall HR functions and objectives, which includes policies & procedures, employee relations, performance management, benefits administration, training and development, and compliance with relevant employment laws.

Responsibilities include:

• HR Policies and Procedures:

  • Develop, implement, and communicate HR policies and procedures

  • Ensure consistent application of policies across the organisation such as our Employee Handbook

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

• Benefits Administration:

  • Administer employee benefits programs, including health insurance, pensions, insurances and other perks

  • Assist employees with benefits-related inquiries and issues

  • Lead the annual renewal process for all EMEA benefits

• Employee Relations:

  • Address employee relations issues and conduct investigations when necessary

  • Provide guidance and support to employees on HR-related matters

• Performance Management:

  • Support the performance management process

  • Provide feedback and guidance on performance improvement

• Training and Development:

  • Help facilitate training sessions on various HR-related topics

• HR Compliance:

  • Ensure compliance with local employment laws

  • Stay updated on changes in labour laws and regulations

  • Prepare and maintain HR records and documentation

• Other: 

  • Work with our payroll team on processing the EMEA payroll monthly 

  • Work with our government authorities, immigration advisors and/or law firms to process and manage all immigration cases and mobility cases for EMEA

  • Work with EOR providers as needed

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

What you bring:

• Proven work experience in people operations or similar role in a fast-growing startup/scaleup environment. You’re an executor who’s passionate about policies and procedures. You have accumulated tremendous pattern recognition from your experience, but you also have vision and conviction on how you’d like to do things differently when designing the People Ops function from the ground up

• Are a masterful, precise, and tactful communicator. You can sell the Airwallex vision, engage professionally with candidates across all levels and functions, and convey complex information eloquently

• Act as an “owner”, and drive initiatives forward autonomously, looping in others as needed for input, delegation, or support with key decisions. You’re great at proactively giving visibility on your work’s status, progress, or blockers

• Have extremely high EQ. You are great at reading the room, picking up the unsaid, and tailoring your approach as needed

• Care personally about the real humans behind the jobs, and are able to build strong and productive relationships with coworkers. Fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment is personal to you

• Are a scrappy problem solver at heart who drives outcomes and avoids excuses

• You hold yourself to an extremely high bar for execution, and hold others to that bar as well

• Can balance many tasks at once and tackle them efficiently in an organised fashion. You are energised by the opportunity to bring order to the chaos of a fast-growing startup (emphasis on fast!). You don’t need others to implement the structure for you to be effective – you create your own clarity

• Have mastery of HR systems (e.g. BambooHR, Lattice)

• Are familiar with various legal requirements when it comes to payroll, leaves of absence, and immigration. Maintaining transparency and equity is a sticking point with you and you proactively raise concerns and solutions in order to help the organisation maintain compliance across all employee areas

• Certification in Human Resources is an advantage

Equal opportunity

Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters.  Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s).  Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.