HR Business Partner - 12 months contract

We are partnering with a leading financial services organisation seeking an experienced People Partner to support a large scale organisational restructure. This is a hands-on role focused on delivering complex people change initiatives, including restructuring, consultation and redundancy programmes

12 months contract

London based - 3 days in office

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and support organisational restructuring and transformation activity.
• Manage end-to-end redundancy, consultation and workforce transition programmes.
• Partner with senior stakeholders to assess workforce impacts, risks and mitigation plans.
• Support organisation design reviews, operating model changes and role redesign initiatives.
• Provide expert guidance on employment law, organisational change and change governance.
• Drive stakeholder engagement and coach leaders through complex change programmes.
• Use workforce data and people insights to support decision-making and change outcomes.
• Ensure all change activity is delivered fairly, consistently and in line with legal requirements.

Essential Experience

• Significant hands-on experience delivering restructures and redundancy programmes within the financial services sector.
• Proven experience leading organisational change and transformation initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of UK employment law, consultation processes and redundancy legislation.
• Experience partnering with senior leaders through complex organisational change.
• A track record of managing sensitive employee relations matters during periods of transition.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• The ability to balance business priorities with employee impact and risk considerations.

Due to the nature of this assignment, candidates must be available to start at short notice and have recent, demonstrable experience of delivering restructuring and redundancy programmes within financial services