HR Business Partner (Front Office)

Evelyn Partners is the UK’s leading integrated wealth management and professional services group, with over 186 years of experience in helping generations of people and businesses to thrive. We offer an extensive range of financial and professional services to individuals, family trusts, professional intermediaries, charities and businesses.

We provide an award-winning service for our clients by employing the best people. Join us on our mission to place the power of good advice into more hands because we believe that everyone deserves access to good advice, regardless of where they’re at in their financial journey.

An exceptional track record of growth and innovation is driven by our core values of: Personal, offering advice based on a true understanding of what matters to our clients; Partnership, working with our clients in a joined-up, collaborative way; and Performance, demonstrating a breadth and depth of advice expertise to deliver first-class results.

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Job Purpose 

The HR Business Partner will work closely with the HR team and management team to support the delivery of key objectives in the context of the people agenda. Working in partnership with the business the HR Business Partner will combine an understanding of the organisation and its context with HR expertise, in order to tailor business solutions and develop effective interventions, to meet organisational needs, now and in the future.

The HR Business Partner will provide commercially focused and pragmatic solutions for all employment related matters, ensuring people plans and activities are integrated consistently and coaching managers to foster positive working relationships with employees.

Key Responsibilities

• To work collaboratively and commercially as an integral part of business area management teams, influencing the development and delivery of the people strategy in support of the achievement of the overall business objectives.
• Manages relationships and expectations to provide proactive, commercially sound insights and flexible solutions to address HR challenges across the organisation.
• Advise and coach managers through a range of employee relations issues including disciplinary, grievance, and capability matters.
• To support the effective implementation of change management initiatives, including medium to large acquisitions and business transformation projects, minimising ER impacts. 
• Understands and applies the company’s approach to compensation; manages the compensation review and benchmarking activities for their business area
• Create and contribute to Policy and Process development to ensure HR processes and practices are fully compliant with legal and regulatory frameworks
• Design and deliver Management Information (MI), interpret results to identity trends which translate to HR initiatives, present and interpret data to senior management.
• Advise and oversee recruitment within business area, ensuring an exceptional end to end recruitment and on-boarding experience for new hires in associated business area. Work closely with Finance to track and manage headcount budget
• To assist the HR Operations team to meet performance objectives and deliver a commercial, customer focused approach across all activities in the department.
• To help to build a high-performance culture, which reinforces our values and behaviours and is underpinned by strong performance management capability

Key Skills and Experience

• In depth knowledge of UK employment law and experience in resolving complex people related issues
• Understanding   of   the   regulatory   framework   affecting financial services and/or professional services.
• Strong commercial and business acumen in order to assess risk and opportunities for the organisation
• Ability to work at pace and deliver against established personal and team targets.
• Resilient, approachable and confident
• Has gravitas and is able to build credibility easily
• Highly articulate with excellent written and verbal skills
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong influencing skills and is able to adapt style to different audiences

Professional Qualifications and Education

• CIPD Qualified

As a colleague here at Evelyn Partners, you will have access to benefits that include:

• Competitive salary
• Private medical insurance
• Life assurance
• Pension contribution
• Hybrid working model (role dependant)
• Generous holiday package
• Option to purchase additional holiday
• Shared parental leave

We are proud to value the differences that a diverse workforce brings, representative of society and our clients.  At Evelyn Partners we have a wide range of highly active employee resource groups and we’re delivering multiple diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives across the organisation.  It is our commitment to provide a workspace where all colleagues, regardless of identity, background, or circumstance, feel respected as individuals and feel that they can achieve their full potential and work in a safe, supportive, and inclusive environment. 

We are happy to make any reasonable adjustments to accommodate for your needs throughout the application process.  Please let your Recruiter know.