FSO Senior HR Business Partner

Maintaining our reputation as a leading worldwide professional service organisation requires a highly skilled, knowledgeable, energetic team to manage our internal business functions. As a part of this diverse and talented group of individuals, you'll play a vital role in Ernst & Young's success. Whichever part of Support Services you join, you'll use your skills, experience and initiative to support our client-serving teams and other parts of the business to make a difference to the clients and communities we serve. Job Purpose: To partner with the business ensuring the best people solutions to meet its strategic needs. Provide HR consultancy to the line.

Accountabilities:

• Makes a meaningful contribution to the development and implementation of the people strategy for a section of the Financial Services Office (FSO) business as well as to the broader FS sub area people agenda.

• Anticipates issues and needs within the business/client groups and addresses these effectively.

• Builds and maintains influential relationships with business leaders and managers working closely with them to co-develop solutions to meet their business needs.

• Sources the best fit people solutions ensuring the highest quality and best value for money for their service lines.

• Acts as a coach to the client group leader and partner team with specific regard to managing the people aspects of their business.

• Provides insight around people issues within the business, and a challenging, robust point of view on business decisions and their impact upon people.

• Ensures that the sub area strategic people imperatives are met within their relevant client groups e.g. talent management, performance management.

• Acts as an agent for change, ensuring organisational design/development solutions drive business transformation and change. Experience, Qualifications & Personal Qualities: • Sound knowledge of UK employment law and HR practices that has been honed through practical application.

• Experience of making a significant contribution to business decision making, strategic planning discussions and operational aspects of the people agenda.

• Ability to be resilient, practical and a self starter, comfortable with working on own and with teams.

• Strong presentation skills.

• Ability to combine a commercial and pragmatic approach with a high level of sensitivity and discretion.

• Demonstrable ability to apply judgement and influence challenging individuals and deal with complex situations.

• Ability to manage and counsel others.

• Capable of working with several senior stakeholders and managing the balance between their requirements and business imperatives in a robust and assertive way.

• CIPD qualified. At Ernst & Young our inclusive work environment means that everyone's opinion is valued. This enables us to provide better advice and ideas to our clients, which in turn helps you to develop as an individual to achieve your potential and make a difference.
Salary: . Date posted: 15/01/2013