Angela Liotta

Experience

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  University of Sussex

  Sept 1996 - Aug 1997

  Modern Foreign Language Teacher

  Teaching Italian as a foreign language to undergraduates and postgraduates.

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  American Express

  May 1997 - Jun 2011

  HR/Organisation Capabilities/Talent Development and Learning Business Partner
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  Kinetic Partners LLP

  Aug 2011 - Dec 2014

  Global People Director

  Kinetic Partners- a global professional services boutique firm focused on the asset management and financial services world. Areas of focus included: Tax, Audit, Compliance, Corporate Recovery, Risk and Forensic. Kinetic had a global footprint with offices in London, NY, Chicago, Cayman, Geneva, Luxembourg, Dublin, Jersey, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Kinetic Partners was sold to Duff & Phelps in 2014 and I transitioned in a new role with my entire team that included recruitment, ER, Compensation & benefits and business partners.• Conducted a 360 analysis of all people practices and determined executed on a 2 year transformation plan to enable growth. Transformation included: Organisation design, role benchmarking, talent management approach, reward strategy, leadership and commercial development plans, HR Team re-design Partnered with CEO and senior leadership team across the jurisdictions to deliver on global strategy on all Human Capital projects including M&A, re-engineering, global recruitment, talent management and global ER.• Enhanced People Team's practices by introducing Business partner roles and Centres of Excellence models.• Completed a number of strategic transformation projects to include a revised structure of the role of thePartner, Partner levels, reward and role accountabilities.• Designed and implemented new performance management process and leadership competencies in linewith the business vision of growth.• Def ined, streamlined, and enhanced global compensation practices in line with performance managementprocess.• Introduced and led Talent Assessment and Succession planning practices i.e., ‘Nine Box and Path toPartnership.• Developed KP Learning Academy in line with internal career paths . Show less

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  Kroll

  Jan 2015 - Nov 2023

  Led and developed an international team of Business Partners in both EMEA and APAC to support the fast-growing business to include: UK, Ireland, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Russia, U.A.E, Saudi, Channel Islands, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, India, Japan.• Worked first hand on complex ER matters across jurisdictions, sensitive hires, HR M&A projects whilst still focusing on adding high impact projects to the region like focusing on employee engagement.• Partnered with Talent Acquisition to identify, interview and secure key senior hires and foillow them through a successful Onboarding• Reviewed and enhanced regional policies within the statutory boundaries of each jurisdiction• Led the HR function activities through multiple pre- during and post acquisitions within the EMEA andAPAC regions• Worked closely with the Kroll leadership team and built strong partnerships whilst providing advice andHR commercial expertise to enable their strategy and plans. (High profile senior recruitment across the region, Senior hires Onboarding, off-Boarding, new Developed and launched a global mentoring program to foster and complement career development.• Managed HR M&A pre and post-acquisition for the fast growing organization.• Introduced the Best Companies Survey (Employee engagement) within Kroll to secure ‘One star’ status inthe UK.• Enhanced our Director to Managing Director program – leveraged psychometrics, 360 feedback tools andtargeted training to prepare candidates across the path to MD.• Acted as the psychometric practitioner to support succession planning practices. Show less

  • Global Head of Learning & Organizational Development

    Mar 2020 - Nov 2023

  • Head of Human Capital EMEA

    Jan 2015 - Mar 2020
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  73 Strings

  Dec 2023 - now

  Head of People

  Develop a global HR eco-system from the ground up to power the fast-growing FinTech whilst managing operations in the Middle East. From identifying and implementing HR platforms required to identifying and fulfil recruitment needs, building an HR team and have all policies and compliance items in place across the 7 and growing jurisdictions....