HR Business Partner
Fintech / Stablecoin Payments / Banking
Location: Singapore
Employment Type: Full-time
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced HR Business Partner to support a fast-growing fintech business operating across stablecoin payments, card issuing, acquiring, cross-border payments, and regulated financial services.
This role is suitable for someone who has strong HRBP experience in tech / fintech. The role will be primarily focused on HRBP responsibilities, while also supporting critical hiring needs when required.
The ideal candidate should be comfortable working in a high-growth, performance-driven environment, partnering closely with business leaders across commercial, product, operations and technology teams.
Key Responsibilities
HR Business Partnering
- Partner with business leaders to understand team structure, business priorities, hiring plans, performance gaps, and organization development needs.
- Provide day-to-day HR advisory support to managers on employee relations, performance management, probation review, promotion, compensation, retention, and workforce planning.
- Support organizational design and team structure planning for fast-scaling business units.
- Drive performance management processes, including goal setting, quarterly reviews, probation assessments, underperformance management, and documentation.
- Provide practical HR solutions that balance business needs, employee experience, compliance, and company culture.
- Support leadership in building high-performance teams with clear accountability, ownership, and execution standards.
- Work closely with HR, Legal, Compliance, Finance, and business stakeholders to ensure HR practices are aligned with internal policies and local employment requirements.
- Support employee engagement, manager coaching, and internal communication where needed.
Key Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or above in Human Resources, Business, Psychology, Management, or related disciplines.
- 5–8+ years of HR experience, including solid HRBP experience.
- Prior experience in recruitment / talent acquisition is highly preferred.
- Experience in tech, fintech, payments, banking, digital assets, stablecoin, Web3 or financial services is strongly preferred.
- Familiar with fast-growing, cross-functional business environments.
- Strong understanding of HRBP fundamentals, including performance management, employee relations, workforce planning, compensation review, and organizational development.
- Able to support both strategic HR planning and hands-on execution.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work directly with senior leaders and hiring managers.
- Comfortable operating in a high-growth, ambiguous, and results-driven environment.
- Strong communication skills in English; Mandarin or other regional language capability is a plus.
- Singapore employment law knowledge is preferred.
Preferred Background
Candidates with experience from the following environments will be highly relevant:
- Fintech companies
- Digital payment companies
- Stablecoin / crypto payment companies
- Banks or licensed financial institutions
- Card issuing / acquiring businesses
- Cross-border payment companies
- High-growth technology companies
- Recruitment background followed by HRBP transition
Ideal Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate is not a pure recruiter and not a purely administrative HR generalist. We are looking for someone who can operate as a true HRBP while still being able to support critical hiring when the business requires.
This person should be:
- Business-oriented
- Hands-on
- Structured
- Fast-moving
- Strong in stakeholder management
- Comfortable with performance-driven culture
- Able to challenge and support business leaders
- Capable of handling both people issues and urgent talent needs
Success Measures
- Strong HRBP support for assigned business units.
- Timely resolution of employee relations and performance management cases.
- Effective support for workforce planning, team structure, and manager capability building.
- Improved quality and speed for critical hiring.
- Strong alignment between business leaders and HR on people priorities.
- Clear documentation and process discipline across probation, performance, promotion, and compensation matters.