People Advisor

**Role**: People Advisor

**Reports to**:Azra Nasir**

**Location**: Remote working (India based)

**Salary**:Up to INR 1,800,000 depending on experience, plus generous ESOPs

Hours: Full-Time 40 hours per week

**About Vestd**:
Vestd is the leading sharetech platform for share schemes and business admin.

Our regulated platform makes light work of all of the most popular and tax-efficient share scheme types, empowering businesses to attract and retain their talent. Our powerful software also helps investors, and helps founders seeking investment.

Vestd was founded by Ifty Nasir, who lives and breathes our mission. Vestd’s big moonshot aim is to see one billion people worldwide invested in the companies they work hard to grow by. We are all about inclusion and fairness for our customers and our team.

If you’d like to learn more about Vestd, check out this short video from our founder, Ifty.

**Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) at Vestd**:
At Vestd, we prioritise equality, diversity, and inclusion, so we write about it here rather than at the end of the job advertisement. We’re committed to building a respectful, inclusive, and diverse team. Trust is one of our core values; with that comes a commitment to fairness and transparency. We want to be open about our EDI efforts.

**Requirements**:
**The role**:
The Vestd People Team is on a mission to grow an inclusive, high-performance culture. We are currently looking for an experienced and motivated People Advisor to support us in achieving our ambitious business plans.

As part of the People Team, you will be the first point of contact for our team based in India, providing advice on performance management, employee relations matters, operations, talent acquisition, and wellbeing initiatives. Identifying improvement opportunities will come instinctively to support an efficient and effective manager and employee experience.

We're looking for someone who will demonstrate a true passion for our goals and values and be able to navigate sensitive issues. You will be driven by a desire to influence through data and insights. You’ll have experience in the tech/startup/SaaS space. The role presents a real opportunity to grow our people skills and drive process change across the business.

**The primary responsibilities of this role**:
We cannot provide an exhaustive list of duties; additional duties will arise, but the following will be core elements of this role:

- Being a trusted advisor by using professional credibility and strong relationships to influence best practices aligned with Vestd values
- Being the first point of contact for queries and advice
- Resolving and managing generalist-type queries for managers and employees (e.g. probationary reviews, policy advice, sickness absence)
- Managing the talent pipeline, including the screening process
- Analysing and interpreting data to identify themes, trends and risks in ER cases or through the employee lifecycle and recommend solutions
- Acting as a change agent by understanding where team processes can be simplified or revised to promote more efficiency
- Assisting in driving communication and sharing of best practices across the people team to facilitate continuous improvement
- Supporting line managers across the employee lifecycle on the implementation of policies and procedures to embed a culture of high-performance and talent development
- Building Vestd's culture by supporting and facilitating team events and retreats

**Essential elements for this role**:
These are the skills and qualifications we consider essential for this role:

- At least 8 years of solid employee relations experience at an advisory or senior level, backed with level 5 CIPD qualification or equivalent.
- You thrive in a fast-paced, changing or progressive environment, preferably having worked in a remote or hybrid setting and that is your preferred working style
- Experience working in a tech company, a startup or a Saas business
- Strong working knowledge of employment law and a desire to continually broaden this knowledge
- Coaching skills to support managers through often challenging situations
- A focus on the employee experience and to drive continual improvement
- Proficient use of HR/People data to take a holistic view of emerging trends to pre-empt future challenges
- Ability to manage multiple priorities at once and achieve against tight deadlines
- Strong influencing and communication skills to collaborate, build relationships and manage stakeholders
- Creative, proactive problem solver who deals effectively with change and ambiguity
- A passion for EDI and treating everyone with respect
- An ability to communicate well in English, both verbally and in writing
- You must be comfortable with working in a fully remote environment

**Nice to have**:
These will help you stand out from the pack:

- Startup/scaleup experience
- Knowledge of shares and share schemes
- Experience working in a remote team

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