Head - Talent Acquisition - Finance/Capital Markets

Position: Head - Talent Acquisition

The head of talent acquisition will work closely with HR business partners to understand the company objectives and construct plans and strategies to improve recruitment performance.

Company Profile:

'KF' is the largest registrar and transfer agency and a market leader in the financial sector providing investor servicing. over 100 million investor accounts spread over 1300 issuers including banks, PSUs and mutual funds. With a workforce of around 5,500+ experienced professionals drawn from various disciplines, and 220 branches pan India, 'KF' has emerged as a market leader in Investor Servicing.

Your responsibilities as the head of resourcing will include:

- Identifying your organisation's needs and working to create and implement an efficient talent acquisition strategy to improve recruitment and business performance

- Developing, managing and maintaining a highly-skilled team to assist with talent development

- Understanding workforce planning and resource forecasting by working with the resourcing team to feed into recruitment timelines

- Communicating with external sources, i.e. peer organisations to acknowledge any trends in recruitment and markets which could impact upon the business

- Anticipating the organisations future and working with senior executives to advise on recruiting tactics that will help to sustain the company's success

- Developing and retaining a diverse talent acquisition team

- Applying strategies to attract diverse candidates to all areas of the business

- Partnering with the broader talent acquisition team for shared use of tools and resources

- Managing and delivering reports and data when required

- Head of talent acquisition skills and competencies

- Experience in managing and overseeing a talent acquisition team and evidence of transforming the recruitment function within an organization is key. A degree qualification is not essential but is often beneficial.

- Having commercial and analytical know-how is required, as is having strong communication and leadership skills. You must be strategic, influential and confident in building relationships with employees at all levels.

- Heads of talent acquisition will be expected to be proficient in the following:

- Pushing talent acquisition change programmes from both a strategic and operative level

- Experience in managing a recruitment team with a strong understanding of talent acquisition

- Ability to be strategic and tactical when making decisions

- Interpersonal and motivational skills; you should be capable of building relationships across the organization.

- Increasing talent sourcing within an organization by improving direct hiring

- Analytical and capable of reading data and reports to assess complex information

- Influencing employees at all levels to support your decisions and proposed plans