Vice President, Vendor Performance - Human Resources (Fixed Term Contract) at CLS-Group
CLS-Group · London, United Kingdom · Onsite
- Senior
- Office in London
About CLS:
CLS is the trusted party at the centre of the global FX ecosystem. Utilized by thousands of counterparties, CLS makes FX safer, smoother and more cost effective. Trillions of dollars’ worth of currency flows through our systems each day.
Created by the market for the market, our unrivalled global settlement infrastructure reduces systemic risk and provides standardization for participants in many of the world’s most actively traded currencies. We deliver huge efficiencies and savings for our clients: in fact, our approach to multilateral netting shrinks funding requirements by over 96% on average, so clients can put their capital and resources to better use.
CLS products are designed to enable clients to manage risk most effectively across the full FX lifecycle – whether through more efficient processing tools or market intelligence derived from the largest single source of FX executed data available to the market.
Our ambition to make a positive difference starts with our people. Our values underpin everything that we do at CLS and define our working environment:
- Pivotal purpose
- Trusted guardian
- Targeted innovation
- Facilitate connections
- Delivering excellence
- Inclusive culture
Job information:
• Functional title – VP, Vendor Performance – HR (Fixed Term Contract)
• Department – Human Resources
• Corporate level - Vice President
• Report to – Director, HR Governance
• Location – London
What you will be doing:
This is an exciting opportunity for a talented individual to join our Human Resources (HR) team. CLS HR is growing its Vendor Management capability to support management of our critical and key vendors. The purpose of this role is to maximize the performance and value of CLS’s Third Parties whilst minimizing risk and gaining value through contractual and relationship management.
As part of the HR team, you will:
• Support the Director, HR Governance to develop a framework for HR Vendor Management and Governance compliant with CLS TPRM and Procurement Policies
• Maintain oversight of the HR register of vendors, upcoming risk assessments and renewals
• Support Vendor Relationship Owners (VROs) and Service Owners (SOs) with all aspects of third-party administration and management activities
• Partner with HR Leadership and HR Governance to maintain the HR inventory of Risks and Controls related to third parties and RCSA testing
• Provide HR Risk SME support to Third Party Risk Management and Procurement
• Support Service Owners and be the key HR point of contact for TPRM and Procurement queries
• Manage the HR key vendor governance program and partner with HR Governance and HR Service Owners
• Partner with the HR Governance to implement and maintain third party related process maps, procedures and templates ensuring they are up-to-date and well-communicated
• Support the onboarding of new HR team members to ensure there is an understanding of third-party management requirements compliant with TPRM and Procurement policies
Strategic
• Establish relationships both internally and externally
• Creation and maintenance of third-party scorecards
• Managing and overseeing the Governance aspects of the relationship ensuring value is created
• Identify opportunities to achieve maximum value of the vendor portfolio and work with Leadership and Procurement to realize the benefits
• Ensuring compliance and exceeding requirements as required with the TPM Policy
Operational
• Monitoring and managing contractual arrangements ensuring delivery including:
o Contract end dates and renewal timeframes
o Deliverable tracking
o Obligation tracking
o Change management
o Cost management
o Invoice management
o Document management
• Support and monitor the Vendor Relationship Owners and Services Owners to meet compliance of the vendor management activities
• Prepare periodic oversight updates to the HR Leadership Team
• Represent HR for ad-hoc change and project initiatives across the company
What we’re looking for:
The role would suit candidates with:
• Human Resources Vendor Management knowledge and experience
• Established and proven contract and commercial management experience
• Knowledge of Financial Services, Financial Markets Utilities or another highly regulated industry sector is essential
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a data-driven approach to decision-making
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex information to senior leaders
• High ethical standards and a commitment to maintaining confidentiality and data privacy
• A thorough attention to detail, ensuring work is accurate and reflects relevant information
• Ability to drive behaviors to foster a risk-aware and risk intelligent culture where employees recognize their role as risk managers and the importance of the control framework
• Ability to want to learn and show natural curiosity
• The role also entails responsibilities that are administrative, and we need a person that is willing to be hands on and get involved to execute
Professional qualifications / certifications
• Qualifications in any of the following specialisms would be beneficial but not essential:
o Bachelor’s degree
o CIPS
o IACCM
o Project Management
• Highly proficient IT skills in Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Our commitment to employees:
At CLS, we celebrate inclusion and consider this to be one of our strongest assets. We are committed to fostering an environment in which everyone feels comfortable to be who they are, and inclusion is valued. All employees have access to our inclusive benefits, including:
- Holiday - UK/Asia: 25 holiday days and 3 ‘life days’ (in addition to bank holidays). US: 23 holiday days.
- 2 paid volunteer days so that you can actively support causes within your community that are important to you.
- Generous parental leave policies to ensure you can enjoy valuable time with your family.
- Parental transition coaching programmes and support services.
- Wellbeing and mental health support resources to ensure you are looking after yourself, and able to support others.
- Employee Networks (including our Women’s Forum, Black Employee Network and Pride Network) in support of our organisational commitment to embrace and always be learning more about inclusivity.
- Hybrid working to promote a healthy work/life balance, enabling employees to work collaboratively in the office when needed and work from home when they don’t.
- Active support of flexible working for all employees where possible.
- Monthly ‘Heads Down Days’ with no meetings across the whole company.
- Generous non-contributory pension provision for UK/Asia employees, and 401K match from CLS for US employees.
- Private medical insurance and dental coverage.
- Social events that give you opportunities to meet new people and broaden your network across the organisation.
- Annual flu vaccinations.
- Discounts and savings and cashback across a wide range of categories including health and retail for UK employees.
- Discounted Gym membership – Complete Body Gym Discount/Sweat equity program for US employees.
- All employees have access to Discover – our comprehensive learning platform with 1000+ courses from LinkedIn Learning.
- Access to frequent development sessions on a number of topics to help you be successful and develop your career at CLS.
