Culture & Employee Engagement

• Champion organisational culture, values, and behaviours across the business.
• Use employee feedback and people insights to drive engagement, inclusion, and organisational effectiveness.
• Support leaders in creating an environment that promotes collaboration, high performance, and a positive employee experience.

People Analytics & Workforce Planning

• Analyse workforce metrics and people data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Provide evidence-based recommendations to support business and workforce decisions.
• Monitor key people indicators and proactively address emerging workforce and capability concerns.

Employee Relations & Risk Management

• Lead complex employee relations matters in partnership with the Head of Employee Relations.
• Advise managers on disciplinary issues, grievances, absence management, restructures, dismissals, performance concerns, conflict resolution, and PHI cases.
• Ensure people decisions are fair, consistent, commercially balanced, and aligned with employment law and company policies.
• Identify and escalate significant people risks where appropriate.

HR Collaboration & Delivery

• Work closely with HR colleagues and specialist teams to deliver coordinated and effective people solutions.
• Ensure HR policies, processes, and annual cycles are implemented effectively across assigned business areas.
• Share insight, expertise, and best practice across the wider HR function.
• Build strong internal relationships to ensure business needs are supported through the most appropriate HR expertise.

About You

You will be an experienced and credible HR professional who combines strong commercial awareness with excellent stakeholder management skills. You will be comfortable operating in a changing environment, influencing senior leaders, and balancing business objectives with people priorities.

Skills & Experience

• Proven experience operating as an HR Business Partner, Senior HR Adviser, or in a similar partnering role.
• Experience influencing and advising senior leaders on complex people matters.
• Strong track record of supporting organisational change, transformation, and restructuring programmes.
• Experience in workforce planning, organisational design, talent management, and succession planning.
• Significant employee relations experience, including handling sensitive and complex cases.
• Strong coaching, influencing, and relationship-building skills.
• Excellent analytical capability with experience using people data and insights to inform decision-making.
• Sound knowledge of UK employment law and modern HR practices.
• Strong commercial awareness and the ability to translate business objectives into practical people solutions.
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to balance competing priorities and operate effectively in a complex, evolving organisation.

Qualifications

• CIPD qualified, part-qualified, or able to demonstrate equivalent professional experience.
• Experience within Financial Services, Professional Services, a regulated environment, or another complex organisation would be advantageous.

Raymond James

Raymond James is an equal opportunities employer. We treat all of our applicants the same and we have a diversity and inclusion strategy aimed at ensuring we hire the best person for the job regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability or beliefs.