Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist (Term )

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist (Term )

Job Description

Payments Canada is at the forefront of the Canadian payment ecosystem. The Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist reports to the Director of HR Operations & Continuous Improvement and is a high-level subject matter expert responsible for executing Payments Canada’s most complex and high-priority searches across all business units. The role focuses on high-stakes delivery, advanced sourcing, and meticulous recruitment analytics, ensuring consistent processes and real-time visibility into recruitment activities for senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Manage the full life-cycle recruitment process for specialized, senior, and hard‑to‑fill roles across all business units.
• Execute creative sourcing strategies for both active and passive candidates using advanced search and networking.
• Lead and complete complex offer negotiations for senior candidates with diplomacy and focus on internal equity.
• Own and maintain the recruitment tracker to provide real‑time updates on all recruitment activities to the business.
• Collect and analyze data trends to evaluate the success of sourcing strategies and identify process inefficiencies.
• Partner with the talent team and HRBP team to use data trends to identify new opportunities within the recruitment cycle.
• Cultivate effective, consultative relationships with senior leaders to provide customized recruitment solutions.
• Work closely with the People team to ensure the optimized delivery of recruiting plans and outcomes.
• Represent Payments Canada at career fairs and networking events to build a robust pipeline of external talent.
• Design and execute advanced, creative sourcing strategies to identify diverse, high‑caliber talent for executive and leadership positions.
• Utilize expert‑level search techniques and networking tools to build pipelines of hard‑to‑fill passive candidates.
• Lead the final offer process for senior candidates, navigating complex salary structures and benefits negotiations with high diplomacy.
• Own the maintenance and accuracy of the recruitment tracker to provide senior leadership with real‑time updates on all active files.
• Identify and address inefficiencies within the recruitment cycle, ensuring that time‑to‑hire and candidate experience meet high organizational standards.
• Develop and refine high-level recruitment materials, including specialized interview guides, candidate assessments, and compelling job postings.
• Maintain an expert understanding of the Canada Labour Code and local employment laws to ensure every step of the process is compliant.
• Collaborate with HR team members to collect and analyze data, evaluating the success of specific hiring initiatives and recruitment plans.
• Partner with the Talent and HRBP teams to use data trends to identify new opportunities for improving the talent acquisition process.
• Compile comprehensive reports on recruitment metrics, including return on advertising investment and diversity sourcing success.
• Act as the “power user” of the Applicant Tracking System, ensuring data integrity and leveraging all recruiting tools to drive decision‑making.

Qualifications

• Post‑secondary education in Human Resources, Business Administration or a related field.
• A minimum of seven (7) years of full‑cycle recruiting experience.
• Proven track record in sourcing and recruiting for high‑volume technical roles in a fast‑paced environment at all levels of the organization, including executives.
• Strong relationship management and consultative skills (with candidates, hiring managers, and key business partners); ability to influence, inform and negotiate.
• Deep understanding of current HR legislation, specifically the Canada Labour Code, and experience in the banking or financial services industry.
• Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills.
• RPR designation is considered an asset.
• Experience in the banking industry or financial services is considered an asset.
• Eligibility to successfully complete background checks that will be carried out by Payments Canada, including criminal, credit, identity, employment, and education checks.
• Ability to coordinate many high‑priority deadlines simultaneously, anticipate and solve problems with minimal oversight, and prioritize when scheduling conflicts arise.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the demonstrated ability to maintain professional and diplomatic relations with all employees, candidates, and external contacts.
• Sound attention to detail in order to achieve thoroughness and accuracy when accomplishing a task.

Salary Range

• Based on qualifications and experience: $100,300 to $147,500.

Benefits

• Flexible, hybrid (remote/office) environment.
• Competitive compensation package, including annual variable bonus and defined contribution pension plan with employer matching percentage (if eligible).
• Comprehensive health and dental benefit coverage, including mental health coverage, life insurance and a health spending account for you and your dependents (Permanent and temporary employees with contracts 12 months and over).
• Paid time off: minimum four weeks paid vacation, sick and personal days, December holiday shutdown and cultural holiday observance days.
• 26 weeks of paid maternity and parental leave top‑up (if eligible)
• Rewards and recognition program.
• Access to office gym facilities.
• Internal and external professional development opportunities.

At Payments Canada, we are dedicated to fair, transparent and inclusive hiring. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. Our recruitment process uses automated tools, but not generative AI, to objectively screen and evaluate applications and confirm that a candidate’s qualifications meet job requirements.

It is important to remember that these tools support, but do not replace, human decision‑making. Our trained recruitment professionals and hiring managers always make the final hiring decisions.

We are committed to employment equity and actively encourage applications from women, Aboriginal people, persons with disabilities and visible minorities. If selected for an interview, please advise us if you require special accommodation by emailing [email protected].

We thank all applicants for their interest in this opportunity. Preference will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. Only selected candidates will be contacted for an interview.