A dynamic growing professional services firm with international reach is looking for an HR Business Partner to work with key stakeholders within the audit/advisory business. This role reports into the Chief People Officer.
The role will provide commercial, practical and people related advice to Partners, Service Line Heads, Sector Heads, Team Leads and Managers. The successful candidate will help ensure that the right people solutions are delivered for the business, with a particular focus on workforce planning, talent management, performance, succession, organisational design, change, engagement, inclusion and leadership capability.
This is a business facing role. The Business Partner will need to understand the commercial priorities, client demands, growth ambitions and operational challenges of each area they support. They will be expected to translate those insights into meaningful people plans that support performance, retention, development and future capability.
This is a hybrid role requiring 3 days working in the office based near Cannon Street
Key Responsibilities
* Stay informed and close to the business, building strong relationships with stakeholders, acting as a trusted adviser and constructive challenger where appropriate
* Create workforce plans, identifying workforce capability needs for the coming year and working with the Talent Acquisition team to ensure effective and timely delivery of any necessary external resource at all levels.
* Manage people processes and lead the deployment of people strategy.
* Suggest improvements to people policies in line with knowledge or business need.
* Effectively manage organisational change programs where required including TUPE, acquisition, integration and headcount management.
You will have:
* 8+ years’ experience of working in a Business Partner role (rather than an HR Manager role) in a professional services environment and proven capability of making a difference.
* Proven ability to build successful relationships with key stakeholders enabling debate, discussion and challenge as appropriate.
* Proven ability to support numerous colleagues concurrently and balance priorities accordingly.
* Good understanding and experience of key legal requirements relating to legislation particularly with regards to discrimination and immigration regulations.
What you will need to succeed:
* Knowledge of best practice People processes within a corporate environment.
* Confidence and capacity to establish professional credibility quickly.
* Ability to instil confidence at a senior level within the Firm.
* An analytical mindset and appreciation, and maybe even enjoyment of, data.
* Great ideas and ability to communicate them.
* Strong organisational and communication skills.
* PC literate with a working knowledge of Teams, Powerpoint, Excel and AI tools.
* Adaptable and flexible with great ideas for improvement
* Creativity, curiosity and a sense of humour!