Senior Talent Recruiter, Fintech

Overview

Senior Talent Recruiter

• who has deep experience of hiring for a fast-growing, international businesses coupled with a strong understanding of startup and scaleup culture.
• The ideal person will possess excellent market-mapping and stakeholder management skills, a strong understanding of candidate experience, and the ability to deliver high-quality hiring outcomes across technical, commercial, and corporate functions.
• Experience building talent pipelines across multiple geographies including Africa, Asia and Greece, using data to improve hiring outcomes, and representing a compelling employer brand in competitive markets is essential.
• This is a senior team role in a growing organization - an opportunity to work in a company where a go-getter spirit and customer orientation are valued as highly as technical excellence.
• Detailed overview

Candidate Profile

• A proactive, commercially aware talent acquisition specialist who can influence senior hiring stakeholders and drive rigorous, high-quality recruitment delivery.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, international environment, balancing immediate hiring needs with longer-term talent pipeline development and workforce planning activities.
• Passionate about candidate experience, inclusive hiring practices, and using data and market insight to improve speed, quality, and consistency in hiring.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end recruitment delivery for critical and senior hires across multiple functions and geographies, ensuring an exceptional candidate and hiring manager experience.
• Partner with business leaders to define role briefs, success profiles, assessment approaches and sourcing strategies aligned to business priorities.
• Build and execute proactive sourcing and talent mapping strategies across relevant markets, with a strong focus on hard-to-fill and business-critical roles.
• Use recruitment data to track funnel health, time-to-fill, quality of hire indicators, source effectiveness and process bottlenecks, providing recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Act as a trusted advisor to hiring managers on talent availability, compensation positioning, interview quality, and competitive market dynamics.
• Champion consistent, structured, and inclusive selection processes that improve decision quality and reduce bias.
• Collaborate with People team colleagues to ensure smooth offer, onboarding, and workforce planning processes.
• Help strengthen employer branding by representing Optasia effectively in the market and crafting compelling outreach and candidate communications.
• Support continuous improvement of recruitment processes, tools, and interview capability across the business.

Requirements

• Minimum of 6 years in-house and/or agency recruitment experience with a strong track record hiring for international, high-growth, technology-led or fintech organizations.
• Proven ability to manage multiple searches simultaneously across functions, seniority levels, and geographies while maintaining high standards and pace.
• Strong capability in direct sourcing, talent mapping, structured interviewing, stakeholder management and offer negotiation.
• Experience using recruitment data and market intelligence to influence decisions and improve hiring outcomes.
• Good understanding of hiring compliance, candidate data handling, and local market considerations across at least some of the countries where the company operates.
• Data-driven, candidate-centric and business-oriented approach to talent acquisition.
• Experience in a challenging, dynamic and complex business environment with a focus on multiculturalism and internationalism.
• Ability to quickly build trust with candidates, hiring managers and cross-functional partners.
• Strong diplomatic and interpersonal skills with high levels of professionalism and integrity.
• Ability to plan and prioritize work under tight deadlines, work on own initiative, and as a member of a team.
• Why Optasia?
• Optasia is a high-growth, AI-powered financial infrastructure platform serving over 432 million users in emerging markets across Africa and Asia.
• By harnessing the power of AI and real-time data we unlock financial opportunities for customers.
• We have been recognized as a top fintech by Forbes Middle East, culminating in a successful JSE listing in 2025.
• At Optasia, our global team builds the tech, products and services which will change the game for the world's unbanked population.
• We empower our people by offering unique employee experiences and support individual careers by prioritizing well-being and embracing flexibility.

Benefits

• Work From Anywhere Policy

• Competitive remuneration package
• Performance-based bonus scheme
• Extra day off on your birthday
• Comprehensive private healthcare insurance
• All the tech gear you need to work smart
• Join us in shaping the future of Optasia as we grow together.
• Explore more at optasia.com