HR Business Partner, SC Ventures

SC Ventures (“SCV”) was established in March of 2018 with the purpose of “Rewiring the DNA in Banking” by bringing three distinct areas together:

The eXellerator Labs, enabling innovation at large in the Bank by supporting:

Entrepreneurially-minded colleagues as “Intrapreneurs”, developing ideas to products, services or new business models.

Collaboration with fintech companies, supported by the SC Ventures Fintech Bridge, Proof of Concept (“POC”) framework and POC funding.

Client engagement on co-creation activities.

The Innovation Investment Fund (“Fund”), USD100m allocated to acquire minority stakes in fintech companies (“fintechs”) whose technology has been successfully validated in the Group and is progressing to production (i.e., continuing use), subject to commercial due diligence.

Venture building, exploring new business models (“ventures”), with the objective of providing ‘optionality’ for the Group in the way it engages existing and new customers and markets. These adopt a start-up model, operating independently of the Group’s existing businesses, funded in a venture capital fashion, and under a different governance and risk management framework.

Responsibilities

There are 115 team members (excluding individual ventures), including dedicated colleagues from the Group’s support functions, based in Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai, Nairobi, and London.

As SC Ventures look to launch several portfolio companies, we are seeking an experienced HR Business Partner to support a range of generalist HR activities within the SCV portfolio, including the platform and our venture businesses, both subsidiaries and joint venture entities. This may include assessing the current HR people processes, practice and strategy to inform CEO and Board discussions and ensure the portfolio is investor ready. It may also include deal related activity, from mergers, acquisitions and wind downs.

In addition to the HRBP requirements, this role may need to do some project planning for operationalising the subsidiaries and support the HR Head of Operations & Change in designing our approach to operationalising. This includes supporting activities around policies, frameworks, HR products & governance (payroll, benefits, etc.). In addition, they may need to provide HR advisory services to the different ventures that are sitting under SC Ventures, in particular employee relations matters, completing investigations or providing guidance to people leaders on complex matters.

Strategy

· Provide people advisory guidance and partnership to venture and platform business leaders.

· Provide insights to the Head of HR, SCV and the Venture Boards to facilitate Board Effectiveness and enable our venture businesses to have a successful people & culture.

· Identify, prioritise and develop organisational structures, capabilities and behaviours to build a workforce that is future-ready.

· Lead or consult on venture related business change and transaction related activities

Business

· Effectively partner with, challenge and influence business leaders across multiple geographies to create comprehensive people plans, deliver the right outcomes on people-related decisions, focusing on key agenda items such as people cost control, scalability and building effective cultures.

· Be a disruptor, driving culture change and delivering global and/or local change initiatives in our subsidiaries.

· Collaborate with Venture HR Leads to deliver an adaptable, right-sized, right-shored operating model focused on improving productivity in SC Ventures.

· Solve problems and get to the root cause of issues – design and quickly implement solutions.

· Provide advice on country-specific implications of OD activity and conduct reviews on key OD aspects to optimise the shape of the workforce.

· Provide expertise and resolve complex issues in the following areas: performance management, career planning, data analysis, policies, standards & processes, compensation & rewards, employee relations, learning and development, recognition programs, and strategic development.

Processes

· Identify areas for improvement in HR processes, providing feedback and escalating issues where appropriate to relevant COEs to enhance client experience and improve productivity within the broader HR venture community.

· Provide or lead on detailed guidance to the Ventures on business reorganisations, change and deal related activity.

People & Talent

· Develop and deploy an effective talent strategy to ensure high-quality succession pipelines exist for critical roles within SC Ventures subsidiaries.

· Play an active role in key talent decisions, through leader assessment, development & management.

· Collaborate with colleagues within HR to facilitate internal movement of key talent.