Emma Taylor
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Geraldine Barlow, CAIA, GAICD
Emma worked with me in the Australian Unity Wealth platform for a number of years as our partner and conduit into People and Culture. Emma's ability to build trust, her patience and her delivery on complex matters for the business I led, was exemplary. Emma has a great sense of commercial nature of the business environment she operates in and always applies skillful judgment to matters in front of her. On a personal level, Emma is a pleasure to deal with and tackles challenges in a very calm and confident manner.
Belinda Willis
Emma was a part of my leadership team and was a key member. Emma had a wealth of knowledge of Deloitte and across HR and TA, including leading the lateral TA Consulting team and prior to that the Early Careers team nationally. Her knowledge of the firm and its strategy enabled her to translate that into a TA strategy to attract high calibre talent. Her team leadership, project management, relationship building and ability to navigate the firm helped to ensure that she was able to consistently deliver. Emma is an asset to any team and I would highly recommend her to any organisation.
Geraldine Barlow, CAIA, GAICD
Emma worked with me in the Australian Unity Wealth platform for a number of years as our partner and conduit into People and Culture. Emma's ability to build trust, her patience and her delivery on complex matters for the business I led, was exemplary. Emma has a great sense of commercial nature of the business environment she operates in and always applies skillful judgment to matters in front of her. On a personal level, Emma is a pleasure to deal with and tackles challenges in a very calm and confident manner.
Belinda Willis
Emma was a part of my leadership team and was a key member. Emma had a wealth of knowledge of Deloitte and across HR and TA, including leading the lateral TA Consulting team and prior to that the Early Careers team nationally. Her knowledge of the firm and its strategy enabled her to translate that into a TA strategy to attract high calibre talent. Her team leadership, project management, relationship building and ability to navigate the firm helped to ensure that she was able to consistently deliver. Emma is an asset to any team and I would highly recommend her to any organisation.
Geraldine Barlow, CAIA, GAICD
Emma worked with me in the Australian Unity Wealth platform for a number of years as our partner and conduit into People and Culture. Emma's ability to build trust, her patience and her delivery on complex matters for the business I led, was exemplary. Emma has a great sense of commercial nature of the business environment she operates in and always applies skillful judgment to matters in front of her. On a personal level, Emma is a pleasure to deal with and tackles challenges in a very calm and confident manner.
Belinda Willis
Emma was a part of my leadership team and was a key member. Emma had a wealth of knowledge of Deloitte and across HR and TA, including leading the lateral TA Consulting team and prior to that the Early Careers team nationally. Her knowledge of the firm and its strategy enabled her to translate that into a TA strategy to attract high calibre talent. Her team leadership, project management, relationship building and ability to navigate the firm helped to ensure that she was able to consistently deliver. Emma is an asset to any team and I would highly recommend her to any organisation.
Geraldine Barlow, CAIA, GAICD
Emma worked with me in the Australian Unity Wealth platform for a number of years as our partner and conduit into People and Culture. Emma's ability to build trust, her patience and her delivery on complex matters for the business I led, was exemplary. Emma has a great sense of commercial nature of the business environment she operates in and always applies skillful judgment to matters in front of her. On a personal level, Emma is a pleasure to deal with and tackles challenges in a very calm and confident manner.
Belinda Willis
Emma was a part of my leadership team and was a key member. Emma had a wealth of knowledge of Deloitte and across HR and TA, including leading the lateral TA Consulting team and prior to that the Early Careers team nationally. Her knowledge of the firm and its strategy enabled her to translate that into a TA strategy to attract high calibre talent. Her team leadership, project management, relationship building and ability to navigate the firm helped to ensure that she was able to consistently deliver. Emma is an asset to any team and I would highly recommend her to any organisation.
Experience
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Findex
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Australia
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Group Head of People & Strategy
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Aug 2022 - Present
This role sees me leading a business partnering team (13, including 5 Head of People & Talent strategy). In addition my role is responsible for design and execution of our people strategy, focussed on high performance culture.
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Chief People Officer (Acting)
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Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
Led the organisation through the pandemic climate, working directly with the C-suite and board. Functional responsibility for Remuneration & benefits, Employee Relations, People Development, Employee experience, Talent Acquisition and Partnering teams. Across this time I led the People team through the period of the annual remuneration review, bonus period, new Financial year budget and a three year People strategy reset.
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Group Head of People & Strategy
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Oct 2020 - Jun 2022
Strategically and operationally leading the people & culture business partnering function, talent acquisition function and responsible for supporting the business drive the culture that will lead to growth and success. Building the first Internal Talent Mobility strategy and executing on this to retain and engage the current workforce.Responsible for leading a commercially driven operating model transformation and change management over a number of years. Responsible for the support to two fin tech businesses. Show less
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Deloitte
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Business Consulting and Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Talent Manager
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Apr 2020 - Oct 2020
This role involved partnering with a number of team executives and had a focus on employee relations, well being, diversity, project management, retention, talent identification and management and leading two acquisitions. I was also heavily involved with large scale rightsizing as a result of the COVID pandemic. This role involved partnering with a number of team executives and had a focus on employee relations, well being, diversity, project management, retention, talent identification and management and leading two acquisitions. I was also heavily involved with large scale rightsizing as a result of the COVID pandemic.
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Australian Unity
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Australia
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Wellness and Fitness Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Head Of People & Culture - Wealth & Capital Markets
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Oct 2018 - Mar 2020
As Head of People & Culture, this role was part of executive team leading the Wealth & Capital markets business (comprising of financial planners, investments, property, life & super and trustees). Some of the key focuses for this role were the development and implementation of the EVP, talent management, employee relations, business re-organisation and supporting senior leaders in the development of their culture. As Head of People & Culture, this role was part of executive team leading the Wealth & Capital markets business (comprising of financial planners, investments, property, life & super and trustees). Some of the key focuses for this role were the development and implementation of the EVP, talent management, employee relations, business re-organisation and supporting senior leaders in the development of their culture.
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Deloitte
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Business Consulting and Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Head of Talent Acquisition - Consulting
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Jun 2018 - Oct 2018
In Deloitte Australia's largest and fastest growing part of the business I was accountable for leading a team of recruiters responsible for end to end recruitment. Operating in a fast paced matrix structure this role was responsible for setting the strategy to source and select the best talent while focusing on diversity and inclusion. This included a specific focus on digital and technology areas of Deloitte's Consulting team (Deloitte Digital, Salesforce, Oracle, SAP teams) In Deloitte Australia's largest and fastest growing part of the business I was accountable for leading a team of recruiters responsible for end to end recruitment. Operating in a fast paced matrix structure this role was responsible for setting the strategy to source and select the best talent while focusing on diversity and inclusion. This included a specific focus on digital and technology areas of Deloitte's Consulting team (Deloitte Digital, Salesforce, Oracle, SAP teams)
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Deloitte
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Business Consulting and Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Manager - National Graduate Talent Acquisition Leader
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Jul 2012 - Apr 2018
As a Senior Manager led a team of geographically dispersed graduate talent acquisition specialists. My teams role was to attract and secure the best talent to support the firms future early talent workforce needs. My role was to understand the future vision of Deloitte and translate that into an EVP, employer brand and talent strategy that ensured we were the most eminent early talent magnet in the Australian market. I was responsible for the strategic and operational outcomes Nationally.I have a passion for early identification of talent, developing a strong employer brand, operational excellence, leveraging technology and data analytics, innovation and social media – all of which underpinned our strategy. Throughout my tenure we were awarded the following market recognition:WINNER – 2017 Most Popular Graduate Employer Overall WINNER – 2017 Top Accounting, Professional Services and Consulting EmployerWINNER – 2017 Most Popular Internship EmployerAustralian Financial Review and GradConnection Most Popular Graduate Employer Awards 2017 Show less
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HR Manager
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Oct 2007 - Jul 2012
Partnered with senior leaders in a number of business units across Deloitte including Assurance & Advisory and Deloitte Private. In this role I focused on assisting the business meet plan whilst engaging, managing and developing teams.RemunerationDriving a high performance cultureEmployee relationsCoaching leadersMonitoring and driving engagementTraining & developmentWorkforce planning
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HLB Mann Judd
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Australia
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Accounting
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500 - 600 Employee
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Senior Human Resources Consultant
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May 2006 - Oct 2007
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Aegis Services Australia
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Australia
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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200 - 300 Employee
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HR Business Partner
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Jul 2004 - May 2006
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Bakers Delight
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Australia
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Retail
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700 & Above Employee
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HR Consultant
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Oct 2003 - Jul 2004
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Training & Development Consultant
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Jan 2002 - Oct 2003
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Education
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2007 - 2008
Monash University
Graduate Certificate in Business, Business, Human Resources -
2003 - 2004
University of Melbourne
Graduate Diploma in Training & Development, Adult learning, human resources -
2002 - 2002
Futurum Australia
Certificate IV in Assessment and Workplace Training, Training & Development -
1999 - 2001
Swinburne University of Technology
Bachelor of Social Science, Psychology, Human Resources, Business
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