Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

1 week ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Absa Bank Limited Full time

Bring your possibility to life Define your career with us
- With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.Job Summary

To provide advice and support in practice formulation and associated best practice improvement tactics; enabling the provision of specialist human resources expertise.

**Job Description**:
Key Accountabilities:

- Talent Acquisition and Selection: Define and ensure implementation of innovative sourcing strategies that will enable the establishment of a diverse pool of talent geared to meet the evolving needs of the Cluster Workforce Plan.
- Ensure timely on-boarding of all hires and adherence to on boarding policies and procedures.
- Identification of critical senior vacancies - build proactive pipelines and agree transformation plans with the Cluster seniors including targets and timelines.
- Build a Resourcing scorecard for the Business Unit by which these metrics can be presented and managed through discussions at the BUs Management Forums.
- Encourage frequent knowledge sharing between team members. Determine and analyse development needs for the team and ensure that identified training requirements are budgeted for and executed.
- Business Management: Drive Strategic Resourcing Agenda through managing relationships with stakeholders, extended HR Community and Resourcing teams.
- Based on gaps identified, motivate requests to the manager for additional resources including people, budget and equipment. Obtain a thorough understanding of the Cluster’s strategy and explain it to team members in such a way that they understand the contribution they have to make.
- Explain targets and take accountability for the monitoring and achievement of performance objectives in the department in terms of employee satisfaction, customer experience, cost performance, return on investments, risk, compliance and governance requirements.
- Conduct basic statistical analysis to track performance variances and determine the root causes of errors.
- Make recommendations for productivity or process enhancements to process owners. Implement productivity improvement measures by coaching staff on any new processes or on their areas for improvement.
- Populate balanced scorecards for the specific department on a monthly basis.
- Participate in the measurement and reporting of internal and external Service Level Agreements on a monthly basis.
- Address any process failures specific to the department under management

Qualifications:

- B Degree (Human Resources) or related field
- HR Certifications/memberships (an advantage)

Knowledge/Skills/Experience:

- 3-5 years relevant Talent Acquisition experience
- Solid knowledge and understanding of the Talent Acquisition value chain end to end
- Commercial mindset / commercial acumen
- Digitally savvy
- Effective communication
- Strong stakeholder engagement and management
- Corporate Talent Acquisition experience in financial services (preferred)

Education

Bachelor's Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Human and Social Studies (required)
- Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised_

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