HR Business Partner

• Are you an HRBP looking to join a growing and dynamic business within financial services?
• Are you a forward-thinker who appreciates the value that a proactive and strategic HR function can add to a business?
• Can you demonstrate strong business acumen with the ability to develop an in depth understanding of a business, its customers and the external market?
  
  

We are looking for an experienced and commercial HR Business Partner to work as part of the Fintel Group HR Leadership team to define and implement a creative HR strategy, and lead on operational plans and projects.

The role

Building and maintaining effective working relationships with Defaqto stakeholders to become a trusted advisor and providing the ‘voice of the customer’ back to the central HR team to ensure the tools, frameworks, policies and service levels meet the requirements of the assigned business areas.

Our client is on a journey of growth by acquisition, so there is may be an opportunity to use your change management skills, supporting your business areas through the transition as the company grows.

Responsibilities will include:

• Working closely with stakeholders to ensure a joined-up approach to culture, people systems and processes and alignment with the wider group.
• Support the design and implementation of HR transformation and change programmes within the company, including restructuring, collective consultation, variation of contracts and TUPE transfer.
• Coach and build the capability of managers to anticipate and pre-empt organisational issues, cultivating a culture of line manager responsibility and accountability.
• Provide expert input across the full range of HR issues in your business areas; acting as the point of contact and subject matter expert. Providing business partnering support to the senior leadership team and their teams.
• Understand and anticipate the need for continuous improvement in our people practices, diagnose underlying issues and make the case for change with business leaders.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships across a broad range of stakeholders, including leaders, managers, employees and external clients.
• Make data-driven decisions by leveraging people analytics to identify trends, anticipate needs, and deliver impactful solutions.
• Be an ambassador for the HR function and people agenda.
  
  

What you will need to succeed:

• You will need to have experience working as an HRBP along with sound generalist HR operations experience (recruitment, discipline, grievance, organisational change and re-structuring, redundancy and changing terms and conditions of employment and TUPE).
• You will have exceptional communication skills and the credibility to influence at all levels, offering high support, high challenge and acting as a ‘critical friend’.
• You will also be able to work at pace, supporting at a strategic level whilst providing hands on support to the site operational teams when needed.
• You will count data and reporting as one of your strengths to support effective, evidence-based decision making.
• Alongside this, you will have a customer first approach, demonstrating resilience, problem solving and critical thinking skills with a passion for service/process improvement.
• You will be comfortable working in a matrix management environment.
  
  

Location

Defaqto is based in Haddenham, Buckinghamshire and you will be expected to work from the office a couple of times each week as a minimum. From time to time, you will be required to travel to Huddersfield to the Fintel headquarters.

Availability:

The client is looking for the successful candidate to join them at the start of the new year.

Fintel plc and all the businesses within it adopt a zero-tolerance approach to discrimination on any of the protected grounds in the Equality Act 2010.

We are committed to providing equal opportunities to all current and prospective employees regardless of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse workforce because, in our view, diversity enables better business outcomes. We also believe that a more inclusive workplace, where people of different backgrounds work together, ensures better outcomes for all staff. From application to interview, we place inclusion at the heart of all we do.

For these reasons we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds.