Ensuring Alfa is a welcoming place for all
We have a variety of teams and employee-led communities in each of the regions we operate in, all passionately engaged with Alfa’s social impact and ensuring it is a welcoming place for all.
As an example of the many great initiatives that have originated from our communities, 2022 saw the introduction of the Alfa Work Experience scheme in EMEA, championed and led by the Alfa for Racial Equity Community. This scheme gives students who would not normally have the opportunity an "in" to experience working in a fintech environment.
Our communities and initiatives
A safe space for all, educating and empowering each other while driving continued change in the business and wider industry.
Everyone can use three paid days each year to volunteer for causes close to their hearts.
Providing a support network of allies to encourage gender diversity within Alfa and across the industry.
All are welcome at Alfa. We celebrate differences and benefit from a variety of cultural perspectives that help us achieve more.
Supporting parents and carers with resources, events and advice, alongside enhanced policies.
We’ve got fantastic opportunities for growth and support at every level. We develop future leaders and give you ownership of your career.
Plenty of ways to contribute positively to the communities in which we work and encourage sustainability inside and outside work.
Time carved out for solving problems, collaborating with colleagues and having fun. Our Hackathon events are fuelled by our colleagues’ enthusiasm, pizza and socialising.
From conferences to delicious office lunches offering up world cuisines, with a bit of gaming and educational talks in between, we get together online and in person whenever we can.
We don’t tolerate any form of discrimination. We boost racial diversity through recruitment and training practices that instigate positive change.
We look after our people in a host of ways, including an Employee Assistance Programme, access to a range of free support services and mindfulness apps, a team of Mental Health First Aiders and lots more.
Our partnership with Change Please in EMEA
We have recently partnered with Change Please in EMEA, a social enterprise which supports people experiencing homelessness by training them up and finding them a living wage job. Our in-house café Moor at our London HQ is now one of the Change Please cafes, adding to their safe spaces for baristas to gain more experience, build up their CVs and hopefully open up future job opportunities.
How we promote and increase awareness on key issues
We run Inclusive Recruitment training for everyone involved in our recruitment process, and continue to hold a diverse series of talks, events and activities run by our communities to promote and increase awareness on key issues.
In celebration of diversity, we launched Cultural Days in 2022. These flexible days allow our people to swap in and out of national public holidays that might not match their particular values, beliefs or heritage.
Pushing for equality
Throughout the year, we sponsored recruitment events such as Bright Network’s Women in Tech and Women in STEM events. Through our recruitment partners we proactively target diverse groups through email marketing and campaigning. Of our graduate applications in the UK, around 30% of the applications we received were from female candidates. This ratio is a general representation of the gender make-up in the early careers.
