Senior Business Partner, Fintech

It’s true. At Mews, we dream big. As a Hotel Tech unicorn valued at $1.2b, we’re propelling new-generation cloud technology within global hospitality.

With our industry-leading property management solution, we’re enabling the world’s most revolutionary hospitality brands to accelerate their digital transformation.

We’re on the lookout for ambitious, tenacious and passionate people who want to join the next generation of innovators and disrupt the hospitality industry with us. Sound good so far? Keep reading and tumble down the Mews rabbit hole...

First things first: you want to know what you’re actually applying for. It’s impossible to capture every nuance of a role – especially at a rapidly growing company like Mews – but if we had to distil it down to a job description (which we do because this is a job description), it would be this:

This is a pivotal role for Mews as we enter the next phase of our high-growth journey. Our ideal candidate has a successful track record at SaaS or fintech B2B technology companies. You should also have experience positioning a company as a thought leader in their space. You'll receive high-level objectives from the leadershipteamandmust figure out withyourteamhow to accomplish those objectives using knowledge, data and experience.

You won't find HR at Mews; we believe our people are much more than human resources. Mewsers are people and the People Team’s vision is to nurture a culture where we unlock their potential in them and where every Mewser can make an impact. We operate like a product team, encouraging cross-functional People work and having sprint reviews with the business.

This approach builds trust and engagement from our stakeholders. We’ve got plenty on our roadmap for 2024, 2025, and beyond!

• Employee Relations Management. Be an expert in industry best practices around functional areas of new trends and opportunities to constantly raise the bar on people deliverables
• Employee Lifecycle Management. Maintain a strong focus on employee relations, performance management, employee engagement and retention activities, including an understanding of compensation and benefits and development activity.
• Learning & Development:
  Work closely with the L&D Manager, support the design and delivery of appropriate training and development programs with a focus on succession planning and talent development
• Management & People Data Analysis. Demonstrate very strong analytical capabilities and influence business leaders with data-driven recommendations to improve performance, retention and the employee experience.
• People Team Programs Design & Execution. Develop and own the delivery of the strategic people-related plans for each Mews business leader, ensuring consistency with the People Team's key objectives and goals & enforcing consistency with our policies & procedures.
• Organisation Structure & Design:
  Working closely with Fintech Leadership, build out a standalone function and drive a resource plan for critical senior hires to support org development and design and deliver compliance for IPO readiness
• Champion collaborative cross-functional relationships and e nsure alignment of People related programs by partnering with fellow Mewsers (peers and colleagues).

• Experience leading and working on transformational, complex cross-functional projects with multiple partners, including experience working internationally (opening new countries).
• Ideally, you have experience supporting an IPO or you have worked in a highly regulated payments environment.
• Experience of operating as a strategic People Business Partner with demonstrated success in meeting exceptionally high standards in a high volume, fast-paced, hands-on environment within a tech company.
• Experience with rapid and complex changing work environment, embracing ambiguity and positioning risk-adjusted decisions to progress the business
• Coaching and mentoring experience at all levels of an organization .
• The ability to understand business goals and recommend new approaches, policies and procedures to effect…