People Partner, Tax – 12 month FTC

We’re Gravita: the accountants fuelling ambitious businesses.

We’re a full service, tech-enabled firm, working with entrepreneurs and businesses to help them achieve their goals, and make an impact in the world.

We’re growing fast and are bringing like-minded advisors together to form a full-service tech-enabled accounting partner for thousands of SMEs. Our team use their incredible expertise alongside intuitive technology to help businesses and entrepreneurs plan better and grow faster.

Our mission is to become the UK’s leading tech-enabled accounting firm for SMEs. We have ambitious goals and our high-calibre team work hard to achieve them. We are one team with one agenda, working collaboratively in a respectful environment to deliver a great service to our clients. So if you join us, you’ll not only be working on exciting client challenges, you’ll also be helping us shape the future of accounting.

The Role

As People Partner for Tax, you will help shape and deliver the people agenda for our Tax Service Line across 4 sites, with ambitious organic and inorganic growth plans. This is a high-impact role where you’ll have the opportunity to influence senior stakeholders, lead meaningful people initiatives and help shape the future of a fast-growing professional services business. You will help build capability, strengthen culture and support growth in a fast moving, private equity backed environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Service line People Plan: Partner with Tax Leadership to set priorities, design solutions and deliver outcomes end-to-end, aligned to our organisational people strategy.
• Performance development: Embed a modern, growth-oriented approach to performance, focusing on development, feedback and quality conversations.
• Career pathways: Collaborate with the business and Talent and Learning team to develop and embed career pathways aligned to our behavioural framework to support our people in their career progression at Gravita.
• People Calendar: Manage the annual performance, promotion and reward cycle for the service line, managing spend to budget and ensuring high standards are maintained.
• Manager & leadership capability: Build capability through coaching and targeted interventions, working with the wider People team to inform the learning offering.
• Talent & retention: Lead talent discussions with senior leaders, including succession planning and retention mapping; holds accountability for attrition data and action planning; builds out hiring plans, working with the Talent Acquisition team to enable growth.
• Engagement: Diagnose themes and create tailored engagement plans that address root causes and create an environment where people can do their best work.
• Employee relations: Provide guidance, support and business context to the Employee Relations function in handling case load; where needed manage complex or escalated cases directly.
• Compliance: Work closely with Tax leadership and Compliance so people practices support regulatory requirements.
• People projects: Lead people initiatives that shape the wider organisation. As part of a fast growing organisation, you have the opportunity to be involved in shaping our broader strategy.
• Change leadership: Drive and support change and transformation initiatives, including supporting M&A integration activity.