Oakleaf Partnership
Senior HR Business Partner - Trading / Front Office

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A City of London based international trading firm now has an exciting opportunity available for a Senior HR Business Partner to join their forward thinking HR team. The business have 800+ employees in a variety of locations across the globe. This particular role will be supporting a trading population in the UK and several distribution offices in Europe and Asia.
Role Overview
The role itself will have a broad HRBP remit covering a multitude of areas such as:
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- Organisational design
- Employee relations
- Leadership coaching
- Talent and succession planning
- Risk management
- Senior level stakeholder management
- HR projects (e.g., opening of new offices)
Key Requirements
We are looking for candidates who have, ideally, previous experience of working with a trading business and population. This will ensure that candidates have a deep understanding of the market, role and pressures as well as macroeconomic issues which effect performance.


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Candidates will also need to be:
- Highly capable across a broad spectrum of HR responsibilities
- Have high emotional intelligence
- Be commercially astute
- Be risk aware
A degree and CIPD will also be highly desired.
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