HR Business Partner

Who we are?
Norinchukin Bank Europe (NBE) opened its office in Amsterdam in 2019 and is a subsidiary one of Japan’s largest and oldest financial institutions. Norinchukin Bank was founded in 1923 and is a cooperative bank with its roots in agriculture, fishery and forestry.

We collaborate with 100 employees in our Amsterdam office and are actively expanding our business in Europe, with a high focus on sustainability. We foster our open culture by continuously demonstrating our values of openness, sensitivity, engagement and cooperation. At NBE, we are a melting pot from people all over the world, at least 22 nationalities are represented. We respect and are interested in each other’s cultures. Furthermore, our way of working can be defined as informal and our communication lines are short. Since NBE only started in 2019, not everything is carved in stone yet. Therefore, you can contribute to the development of NBE and have a wide scope in terms of responsibility and topics to cover.

Your responsibilities and challenges
We are looking for a HR Business Partner to join our HR team that consists of two HR Officers, two Business Partners and a Head of HR. Together, we support our team members to be able to achieve their potential and to maintain our positive and unique working culture.

In this role you will:

• Be operationally and tactically responsible for all HR matters within your business lines.

• Together with your colleague HRBP, be responsible for the recruitment and selection of new employees during this scale-up phase. 

• Stay up to date with and maintain HR laws and regulations for the organization. You will be required to translate this into the development and professionalization of our current HR policies and processes. 

• Along with the HR Officers, be responsible for checking our payroll administration.

• Co-creating and monitoring HR reporting, HR dashboards, and audits, and developing HR analyses.

• Support with the facilitation of the performance appraisal cycle, maintenance of our compensation and rewards framework and the roll- out of our yearly engagement survey.

• Drive and support initiatives and HR projects to further grow and develop our HR team and the organisation as a whole.

• Develop and initiate training facilities and/or organise trainings.

• Further develop a collaborative, respectful, and transparent working culture.

Our Japanese expat managers rotate every three to four years. Intercultural exchange is very common and encouraged. This means that as an HRBP, you will primarily be involved in coaching them on the Dutch approach to leadership. Adding value to the growth of NBE and the above mentioned activities is something you look forward to.

This is what we offer
The possibility to work in an unique company with a lot of opportunities. We offer you a rewarding job in which you can significantly contribute to the development and growth of the company. In addition, the job will provide you enough room to grow and to further develop yourself. Our working conditions are set in accordance to the CLA Banks. We offer an attractive salary package that includes holiday allowance and a 13th month payment at the end of the year. You are entitled to 30 vacation days (on fulltime basis). Furthermore, we have a vitality program and offer continuous investment in your personal development. NBE is located at NoMa House in Amsterdam, right next to Amsterdam Zuid train station.

Are you interested?
We are looking a candidate with an obtained a Bachelor or Master degree and have at least 7 – 10 years’ experience in an international and/or financial institution. You are eager to cooperate with colleagues from different cultures. Besides that, you are a team player, you have great communication skills, are sensitive, have eye for detail and work in a process oriented manner. You enjoy working with HR data (in Excel) or you are interested in developing yourself in that area.

Do you identify yourself with our values, do you enjoy working in an international setting and are you interested in joining us on our journey? We encourage you to please apply!

 If you have any questions related to the vacancy please feel free to contact Vanja Saric, HR Business Partner at v-saric@nochubank.eu.