We are partnering with a major international financial services group to appoint an experienced Senior People Partner to support its Finance leadership team through a period of significant organisational change.
Having expanded through acquisition, the group is moving from a collection of relatively independent businesses towards a more integrated international operating model. This involves aligning leadership structures, accountability, governance and ways of working across businesses with different cultures, systems and levels of organisational maturity.
This appointment offers the opportunity to partner directly with senior Finance leaders, helping them navigate organisational complexity, manage their teams effectively and address the People challenges that come with operating in a changing international business. The role requires someone who can build strong relationships, exercise sound judgement and find practical ways forward when decisions, processes and responsibilities are not always straightforward.
We are looking for a commercially astute, confident and pragmatic People Partner who combines strong Finance partnering experience with excellent stakeholder judgement. Someone who can challenge constructively, understand competing priorities and build enough trust to influence difficult decisions. They will need to be resourceful, patient and persistent, equally comfortable advising senior executives and working through the detail to get things done.
Key duties
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Strategic Finance partnering: Build trusted relationships with senior Finance leaders, understanding their commercial priorities and providing credible, practical People advice that supports business performance.
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Stakeholder navigation and influence: Work effectively across complex international and matrix structures, balancing different personalities, priorities and interests while building constructive relationships.
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Practical problem solving: Take ownership of challenging People issues, working through unclear processes, competing demands and organisational obstacles to find workable solutions.
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Leadership advisory: Coach and challenge senior leaders on organisational effectiveness, people management, performance, capability and sensitive business decisions.
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Organisational change: Support restructuring, integration and operating model developments, helping leaders manage change while maintaining business continuity.
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Workforce planning and capability: Partner Finance leadership on organisational structures, workforce requirements, succession planning and capability development.
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People frameworks and consistency: Work with Reward, Talent and People Operations colleagues on job architecture, grading, performance and other group-wide initiatives, ensuring solutions work in practice.
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People function collaboration: Work closely with the wider People team, sharing expertise, building capability and helping establish effective ways of working.
You will be an experienced Senior HR Business Partner or People Partner with a strong track record of supporting senior Finance leadership teams. You will bring excellent commercial understanding, strong communication and influencing skills, and experience operating within complex, international or matrixed organisations.
You will be comfortable supporting organisational change, building relationships across different stakeholder groups and providing practical, commercially focused People advice. Experience within financial services or another regulated environment would be advantageous.
