Talent Acquisition Advisor

Talent Acquisition Advisor | London

Monex is a global financial services firm specializing in foreign exchange risk management, international payments, and institutional currency solutions.

We help corporations, financial institutions, asset managers, and private capital firms navigate global markets through tailored FX strategies, market intelligence, and execution expertise. With operations spanning North America, Europe, and Asia, Monex combines global market access with local expertise.

We serve over 73,000 clients worldwide through 40 offices.

Department Overview

The strategy of the Human Resource function is to have the right people in the right place at the right time. HR focuses on working with the business to formulate their people strategy to ensure implementation of their strategic aims to meet their business goals. Human Resources seek to be integrated and core within the business, highly visible and to support staff at all levels with a solution-oriented and commercial approach.  

Our role is to act as independent facilitators, providing specialist advice in all areas of people management; such as Employee Relations (Lifecycle), Employment Law, People Risk, Payroll, Benefits, Data Management, Recruitment and On-Boarding, Compensation, Learning and Development, Diversity and Inclusion, Wellbeing.  

The key to the HR function is to achieve a balance between commercial requirements, employment law and best practice in our fields of expertise. 

Job Overview

As the Talent Acquisition Advisor, you are responsible for managing the regional recruiting and Talent Acquisition methods and strategies, responsible for finding, attracting and hiring new employees to fill open positions and meeting the company's workforce needs and goals

• Managing recruitment processes from end to end;
• Developing and maintaining a resource tracker documenting resource required, resource progress and timescales;
• Liaising with hiring managers to fully understand their needs and working closely with them throughout the process to help create and update job descriptions, coordinate interviews and support throughout the interview process;
• Providing regular resource management information on recruitment progress and immigration, highlighting risk and areas of opportunities;
• Maintenance of applicant tracking system (ATS);
• Local Recruitment agency management liaison;
• Talent sourcing, talent pipeline mapping;
• Immigration responsibility including work permit maintenance;
• Regulation and legislation knowledge in recruitment and immigration;
• Contractor management and compliance (e.g. IR35 etc.). 

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

Workforce Planning: 

• Working with Managers to help with their recruitment planning in order to support Monex’s strategic plans; 
• Managing and guiding the business on hiring processes for work experience, interns, apprentices and graduates.  

Talent Acquisition 

• Adhering to the recruitment and selection processes across the business; 
• Leading local PSL Agency briefings with hiring managers, reviewing CVs for/with hiring managers, scheduling interviews and providing feedback to candidates/agencies; 
• Adhering to Recruitment policies and processes, supporting Hiring Managers across all business areas, evidencing fair assessments of applicants and new employees as required; 
• Build a Talent Pool for key roles in order to progress and improve on direct sourcing where possible (e.g. via LinkedIn, Direct Advertising) in order to reduce Recruitment fees and create cost savings to the business;
• Create a talent attraction programme and roll this out within the business. 
• Build the Monex Brand awareness in the market to strength our Talent attraction programme. 
• Focus on direct sourcing and headhunting methods to reduce the cost of agency fees.  
• Immigration controls and maintenance. 

Technology and Data: 

• Ensuring accurate and up to date recruitment records are maintained. 
• Ensuring the company are GDPR compliant (in relation to applicant and Employee Data only). 

Business Knowledge / Technical Skills

• Proven Financial Services experience as a Recruiter via an Agency or Onsite;
• Demonstrable commercial knowledge of the current employment market; 
• Clear understanding of recruitment policies and practices; 
• Previous experience in reporting on MI and analysing data; 
• Able to demonstrate some prior knowledge of HR Onboarding processes; 
• Able to demonstrate a clear understanding of the purpose of risk management and compliance within a regulated environment; 
• Ability to adhere to and help implement pragmatic recruitment policies that work for all departments within Monex (London) as well as globally.