Human Resource Manager

**Human Resources Manager Position Description**
**Who is Karta?**
We're an early stage, Aussie-born, global fintech disruptor focused on opening up a world of possibilities for businesses seeking simple, seamless, all-in-one payments. What does this mean? We take the complexity out of gift cards, providing new ways to connect merchants and consumers.
Our start-up is well funded, and as we scale, we are bringing together a collective of like-minded people. Our platform is scalable globally and bolstered by a multi-year strategic partnership with Mastercard. Recognising the opportunity, CommBank formed a new strategic partnership with Karta in October 2021.
To support our growth, we are seeking a Human Resources to help us build, manage and retain a high performing Karta team. Reporting initially to co-CEO's of Karta, you will be entrusted with an ongoing quest to represent the broader team. As the business evolves, you will refine and/or scale our processes, implement new solutions, and help grow the team. You'll be instrumental in building and supporting a collaborative, cohesive culture that is team-driven, values-driven, and maintains and builds on our culture as we quickly grow our team.
**Key Responsibilities**:

- Own the hiring and onboarding process at Karta as we grow our team.
- Partner with stakeholders across the company to lead recruiting and retention efforts and create leadership talent development programs.
- Manage the administration for the employee lifecycle as they need to be hands on in this regard
- Develop programs to engage and connect with Karta team members.
- Support the company's leaders focus on building a high-performance culture.
- Create programs, support resources and systems to allow Karta team members to be their best.
- Develop and articulate business cases for people focused initiatives.
- Day to day liaison person with key HR related partners.
- Manage key human resources systems and processes for the organization.
- A happy, healthy, and safe work environment
- Being an advocate. For Karta, for our people and for our values

**What you can demonstrate**:

- 5+ years of general human resources experience including experience building systems and processes from the ground up.
- An undergraduate degree is required, preferably in human resources, business administration or a relevant field.
- Experience working in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment and scaling a team during a growth stage is required; Fin-tech start-up experience is a plus.
- Strong grasp of which human resources processes to prioritize for a growing company.
- A deep sense of empathy and understanding for the needs of diverse groups of people.
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Relentlessly positive attitude, good sense of humour and the ability to have fun at work.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Adept & comfortable at partnering with senior leaders to ensure both the business' and team members' needs are met.
- Ready and willing to initiate difficult conversations and share different points of view with a solutions first mindset.

**Your qualifications**:

- Proven experience working in a fast moving, fast paced fintech start up
- Fintech/Payments industry exposure is preferred
- Previous experience with Employment Hero, Breezy, LinkedIn Recruiter or other similar tools.

**About you**:

- You inspire those around you with your positive mindset
- You have a contagious energy, and engaging style
- You are a structured thinker, able to bring clarity of thought
- You use sound judgement using data combined with your intuition
- You are comfortable with ambiguity whilst working in an evolving environment
- You are perceptive and enjoy the 'hustle' required to get things done
- You take accountability, living up to your commitments
- You know it's not just what you deliver, it is how - you do things the right way, every time

**For the first 3 months you will**:

- Enjoy your onboarding experience and become familiar with our strategic vision and product roadmaps.
- Make the time to understand environment, our culture, values and current ways of working.
- Build relationships with key stakeholders and peers across the team.
- Implement quick wins on strengthening the current HR plan.
- Make recommendations that will improve our approach to People & Culture.
- Make your first appointments for the team, hitting fill benchmarks within the first few months.

**Why is working with Karta so special?**
We are a welcoming and friendly bunch, on the cusp of something pretty special Inspired by the journey ahead and our supportive leadership team, we are all in. We are building our Company culture together to ensure we can achieve our goals and have fun along the way. We are a true start up, figuring everything out as we go, making progress as we face the usual growing pains. We are pretty excited about our products, the tech stack, and our open mike no 'bs' w