Senior Human Resources Business Partner (14-month contract)

Your career is an investment that grows over time!

Wealthsimple is on a mission to help everyone achieve financial freedom by reimagining what it means to manage your money. Using smart technology, we take financial services that are often confusing, opaque and expensive and make them transparent and low-cost for everyone. We’re the largest fintech company in Canada, with over 4 million users who trust us with more than $50 billion in assets.

Our teams ship often and make an impact with groundbreaking ideas. We're looking for talented people who keep it simple and value collaboration and humility as we continue to create inclusive and high-performing teams where people can be inspired to do their best work.

In this role, you will:

• Director support for executive level planning and strategy

• Oversee and implement human resources programs and practices that foster growth, innovation, and organizational effectiveness that align with business strategies in areas including talent management, compensation, learning and development, and performance management

• Support leaders in solving Employee Relations issues through effective coaching, problem solving and ensuring adherence to appropriate employment laws and policies

• Proactively identify opportunities to enhance the employee experience and partner with management to develop and implement innovative and sustainable solutions

• Partner with leaders to foster conversations to promote career development, training and development

• Oversee HR policy creation and compliance to employment laws and regulations

• Work with all levels of leadership up to C-suite to develop effective organizational structures to drive organizational health

• Consult and coach all levels of management to build and serve high performing, diverse and inclusive teams

• Analyze HR trends and metrics to develop solutions, programs, and policies

• Coach employees and people leaders to role model behaviours that support our company values and culture

• Provide interpretation and guidance for the application of HR policies and procedures

Skills we are looking for:

• Demonstrated ability to effectively partner and collaborate with all levels of the organization and positively influence teams

• Applied knowledge of local labour laws and statutes for employment across Canada provinces with thorough understanding and hands-on application of internal and external HR principles, practices and standards

• Demonstrated experience in organizational development and/or change management

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to assess situations and make decisions based on data while drawing from previous experience

• Demonstrated experience with coaching employees and management through complex and difficult issues

• Resourceful and self-motivated with ability to work in changing environments

• Strong personal accountability for high quality work & actively finds opportunities for improvement

• Experience working with senior leaders in a client centric technology organization considered an asset 

Why Wealthsimple?

🤑 Competitive salary

📈 Retirement savings matching plan using Wealthsimple Work

🌴 Generous PTO offerings

🌎 A wide variety of peer and company-led Employee Resource Groups (ie. Rainbow, Women of Wealthsimple, Black @ WS)

We’re a remote-first team, with over 1,000 employees coast to coast in North America. Be a part of our Canadian success story and help shape the financial future of millions — join us!

Read our Culture Manual and learn more about how we work.

DEI Statement

At Wealthsimple, we are building products for a diverse world and we need a diverse team to do that successfully. We strongly encourage applications from everyone regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status. 

Accessibility Statement

Wealthsimple provides an accessible candidate experience. If you need any accommodations or adjustments throughout the interview process and beyond, please let us know, and we will work with you to provide the necessary support and make reasonable accommodations to facilitate your participation. We are continuously working to improve our accessibility practices and welcome any feedback or suggestions on how we can better accommodate candidates with accessibility needs.