HR Business Partner

Reed HR are working with a leading financial services company who are seeking an HR Business Partner to join their team on a 15-month fixed-term contract.

This role will work alongside the Key Service Line Leaders to develop and adapt the people element of the business plans. The HR Business Partner will provide HR expertise to support and enable employees to develop and implement a robust business strategy from a people perspective, which builds people capability and high functioning teams.

Ideally, the successful candidate will have experience of working in a professional service setting and hold a proven track record in effective business partnering along with the ability to cultivate strong working relationships with key stakeholders.

The HR Business Partner will...

• Work with other specialist HR Leads, such as Operations, L&D and TA to ensure that the wider HR team understand the business plans and are working collegiately and consistently to implement them.
• Act as the ‘local’ people expert and support people managers to deal with challenging situations and to develop their skills.
• Provide support on all complex ER cases, ensuring that risk is appropriately and proportionately managed, offering pragmatic solutions to problems that arise and ensuring compliance with all relevant employment laws and regulations.
• Work with the HRD and other HR team members to build people and organisational capability, through the identification and implementation of people strategies, focussing particularly on the Firmwide strategic pillars.
• Take ownership and responsibility for the delivery of some key HR projects.
• Support managers with the implementation of performance management processes.

The successful HR Business Partner will have...

• A strong verbal communicator, with the ability to build constructive and positive relationships
• CIPD qualified with proven experience of managing and influencing key stakeholders to improve people capability
• Strong problem solving skills, with the ability to view a problem from different perspectives in order to identify the best solution for the business
• Experience of coaching, mentoring and providing constructive feedback to others
• Proven ability to identify and manage people risk

If this opportunity sounds of interest, please apply now with your most recent C.V.