HR Business Partner
Posted 1 week ago by 1770272296
£100,000 Per year
Fixed-Term
Hybrid
London
Summary: The HR Business Partner role is a 12-month fixed-term contract within a trading and broking firm, offering a competitive salary of up to £100,000. The position involves providing comprehensive HR support across the employee lifecycle while partnering closely with senior leaders in a dynamic environment. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in financial services and a strong generalist HR background. This role combines strategic input with hands-on execution, making it suitable for someone who thrives in a fast-paced setting.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide end-to-end HR support to client groups, acting as a trusted advisor while delivering operationally.
- Balance strategic input with hands-on execution across the full employee lifecycle, including employee relations, performance management, and talent planning.
- Work closely with stakeholders to translate business priorities into people solutions that support commercial outcomes.
- Contribute to people projects, process improvements, and change initiatives using data and insights for decision-making.
- Ensure policies and practices align with regulatory requirements and internal standards.
Key Skills:
- Proven experience as an HR Business Partner within financial services.
- Strong generalist HR capability across employee relations, talent management, learning and development, and compensation.
- Ability to operate in ambiguity and manage competing priorities effectively.
- Strong stakeholder management, influencing, and communication skills.
- Commercially astute with the ability to align people initiatives to business objectives.
- Adaptable, proactive, and resilient in a fast-moving environment.
Salary (Rate): £100000 per annum
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: fixed-term
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: HR
HR Business Partner for Trading/Broking Firm
- 12 months Fixed Term Contract with strong potential of a permanent opportunity afterwards
- Salary: paying up to £100,000
- London
- Hybrid working, 3 days a week in the office, 2 at home
Oakleaf Partnership are working with a high-performing trading organisation operating in a fast-paced, commercially driven environment. The business is going through a period exciting growth and positive change and evolution, creating significant opportunity for an experienced HR Business Partner to make a meaningful impact.
They are looking for a true generalist HR Business Partner who has extensive experience working in Financial Services ie Sales, Trading, Investment/Asset Management, Banking etc . This will intially be a 12 month FTC with the potential to go permanent afterwards. This is both a strategic and hands-on HRBP role within a fast paced SME, offering exposure across the full generalist spectrum whilst partnering closely with senior leaders. The environment is dynamic and sometimes ambiguous, so this role will suit someone who enjoys variety, pace, and being at the heart of the business.
The Role
As HR Business Partner, you will provide end-to-end HR support to your client groups, acting as a trusted advisor while also delivering operationally. This is a true generalist position where you will balance strategic input with hands-on execution.
You will be involved across the full employee lifecycle, including employee relations, performance management, talent and succession planning, learning and development, engagement initiatives, and compensation and benefits. You will work closely with stakeholders to understand business priorities, translating them into pragmatic people solutions that support commercial outcomes.
Operating within a trading environment, you will need to be comfortable working at pace, managing competing priorities, and adapting your approach as the business evolves. You will contribute to people projects, process improvements, and change initiatives, using data and insight to inform decision-making and add value. Regulatory awareness will be important, ensuring policies, processes, and practices align with requirements and internal standards.
Candidate Profile
- Proven experience as an HR Business Partner within financial services
- Background working within an SME
- Strong generalist HR capability across ER, talent, L&D, and reward
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity with the ability to pivot and prioritise effectively
- Confident engaging in strategic conversations while remaining hands-on and delivery focused
- Strong stakeholder management, influencing, and communication skills
- Commercially astute, with the ability to align people initiatives to business objectives
- Adaptable, proactive, and resilient in a fast-moving environment
