Overview of role: Leading International FS House

To work in partnership with functional business leaders within the Group Centre business unit as a real business player, contributing to the development of the business area’s agenda and strategy whilst actively ensuring the people basics are delivered without issue. To be an active and influential player enabling the effective diagnosis of business issues/ strategy and goals. To be able to initiate, design and brilliantly execute integrated people solutions that address key business drivers.

To challenge, provoke and coach business leaders on how to engage employees and address resulting people issues and build people capabilities effectively. To drive the raising of the performance bar and build a strong and rigorous development culture.
To take personal ownership of the businesses people or new initiatives specific to the function.

Accountabilities:

This is a true generalist role with exposure towards the following :-

Managing the Business Agenda
Governance & Risk Management
Recruitment
Reward/Compensation and benefits
Employee Relations/OD and Change
Talent
Leadership, Learning and Development

Person Specification:

Organisational Diagnosis – the ability to monitor and interpret internal and external trends/issues and translate this into people solutions that will deliver business goals.

Influencing (coaching and facilitation) – the use of personal credibility to communicate complex issues simply and compellingly to successfully influence senior business leaders. The ability to establish a position of trust with senior leaders to provide interventions and counsel that drives up team and individual performance.

Transformational Change Management – future focused, catalyst for change – builds confidence and an appetite to deliver change at pace focusing business leaders on developing the right talent, capability and culture.

Commercial Management – excellent understanding of the business environment and the effective application of business processes, combining this with a unique people perspective.

Client Relationship skills – build and maintain effective client relationships with function head by building trust and credibility, high level of responsiveness, understanding and addressing needs with ability to challenge decisions.

Delivery Management – the ability to execute to agreed deadlines every time.

Essential:
Proven track record in either business partnering or consultancy.
Commercial Management – working in business teams, diagnosing and implementing people strategies to deliver business strategies.
Experience of coaching senior leaders and facilitating senior teams.

Preferred:
Graduate with additional IPD or equivalent qualification.
Experience of major business restructuring and/or managing the people implications of a merger or acquisition.

Talent Management and Development – developing and implementing a talent management strategy to raise the performance bar and upgrade capability.

Consultant: Simon Cutner
E-mail: city@mdh.co.uk

Overview of role:

A great opportunity to join a highly motivated and pioneering HR team. This role will involve operational support to the senior HR Business Partner (appeals, grievances, pay rounds etc).

Provide excellence in consultancy/project management support to develop and deliver HR business solutions.

The client is an international bank; the Group has a large international presence with operations in more than 50 countries across Europe, the USA, Africa and Asia.

Essential:

You will require 3-4 years operational generalist HR Experience, not necessarily from a Financial Services background but industry would need to be from a large corporation.

Graduate calibre

Qualified in CIPD

Excellent communication and influencing skills
Strong relationship and partnering approach
Commercial and entrepreneurial

Review of management HR transactional services, delivery of high levels of customer services and ensure industry best practise is implemented.

To manage the delivery of the HR services to deliver improved and new functionality to HR and the business

Provide strong leadership to the HT shared services team and payroll manager

To lead and motivate the team members

To actively manage services providers/vendors

Skills:

The ability to work to challenging deadlines and set priorities

Strong knowledge of the operations of the business

Excellent interpersonal skills,

Ensure that the control of provisions of HR operational support, HR Standards and SLA’s are adhered to.

Experience of managing a team within a shared services arena or potentially a no2 within the shared services environment looking for a step up.

In-depth understanding of HR processes and policies

Strong knowledge of HR benefit admin, payroll, HRIS and HR Compliance regulations

Understanding of UK & EU employment law

The successful candidate will be familiar with working in a fasted paced and dynamic environment and be ready to take on the challenge of a start up role.

Degree qualified and CIPD (preferable) and previous experience within a financial services environment.

The client:

One of the premier European investment banks, with a very strong reputation of driving forward HR strategies and initiatives.

A full and in-depth spec is available.

As a result of a restructure, HR has recently moved to a functionally aligned model enabling them to provide a focused and consistent HR service group across the group. Within this improved structure, a new role now exists for a benefits specialist to take responsibility for the provision of the benefits across the UK, Europe and Asia Pac regions. Reporting to the Global Head of Benefits in the US, you will look to consolidate and streamline current initiatives as well as build, develop, and implement new benefits structures in the various regions.

With each region having differing needs, this role requires a candidate with a strong overall understanding of UK benefits, ideally with some European experience – aligned to
this, you will also require first class relationship building skills in order to develop the close and proactive relationships with stakeholders in each region, key elements to ensuring the success of the position.

To apply, please send your CV and current package details to our retained consultant Matthew Davies at city@mdh.co.uk quoting reference 75019-PM/CHRD