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Allica Bank, the UK's fastest-growing fintech firm, is seeking a Head of Talent Acquisition to lead its recruitment function during a critical growth phase. You will own the end-to-end talent acquisition strategy and operating model across the UK and India, leading a team of four with three direct reports. Reporting directly to the VP of People, you will partner closely with senior leaders and hiring managers across the bank to shape how Allica attracts and secures talent for its next stage of growth.
Key responsibilities include:
- Developing and owning the end-to-end TA strategy and annual hiring plan across UK and India, translating business growth plans into clear recruitment priorities and delivery plans
- Leading a team of four, setting standards, coaching and developing team members, and building a high-performing recruitment function
- Overseeing end-to-end recruitment across the bank, ensuring strong execution from intake through onboarding while maintaining quality, pace, diversity and candidate experience
- Shifting TA toward pipeline-led recruitment, strengthening direct sourcing and talent pooling across technology, banking, risk, commercial and operational hiring
- Building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders and hiring managers, providing constructive challenge and improving their capability in role definition, interviewing and decision-making
- Establishing clear recruitment metrics and regular reporting on hiring demand, time to hire, source effectiveness, offer acceptance, funnel conversion, agency usage and recruiter productivity
- Owning continuous improvement of recruitment processes, ATS/HR technology and supplier governance
- Identifying and embedding practical AI and automation opportunities in sourcing, screening, candidate engagement and reporting
- Partnering with People, Marketing and business leaders to strengthen employer brand and candidate experience
Allica offers flexible and hybrid working, full onboarding support, development opportunities, pension contributions, discretionary bonus, private health cover, life assurance, and family-friendly policies including enhanced maternity and paternity leave.
Requirements:
- Proven experience leading Talent Acquisition in a high-growth technology, fintech or financial services organisation, ideally in-house
- Experience leading a recruitment team through growth and change, with evidence of developing capability and raising standards
- Strong end-to-end recruitment expertise across multiple disciplines, including technology and specialist/hard-to-hire roles
- Proven direct sourcing and talent-pipeline capability with pragmatic approach to agency use and supplier management
- Strong data and commercial fluency, able to translate recruitment data into clear insights and recommendations for senior stakeholders
- Experience improving recruitment operating models, processes, governance and ATS/technology-enabled ways of working
- Confident stakeholder management skills, including ability to influence and constructively challenge senior hiring managers
- Experience using AI or automation to improve recruitment activity with good judgement around appropriate use and governance
- Ability to operate across geographies and cultures with experience of UK and international recruitment environments
