HR Business Partner

Forvis Mazars cares about your career progression, offering individually designed career paths that help you pursue your interests, match your changing needs, and explore your true potential. We work with diverse, prestigious clients across a range of sectors and geographies, giving you the opportunity to constantly update and grow your skills for lifelong professional development.

About The Team

The HR Business Partner team at Forvis Mazars in the UK is a pillar within our People & Culture, Business Services team and a key collaborator with our people experience, talent acquisition, learning & development, people & business operations and finance teams to name a few. In this new role, the successful candidate will join a team of 10 dedicated HR Business Partners and will support our Advisory & Consulting service line, taking responsibility for their own client group and teams with support from our experienced HR Business Partners across Advisory & Tax.

The role

We are seeking a junior HR Business Partner looking to take the next step in their career in a dynamic and commercial role within our supportive team. The role will focus on creating a joined-up strategic approach for our client groups, working together to build the firm of the future, simplifying processes, strengthening teams and managing risk effectively. To do this, we commit to our client groups to:

• Be role-models and thought leaders who ‘show up' for our clients and take pride in what we do.
• Collaborate to deliver great quality work in our capacity as commercial subject matter experts.
• Do the right thing for the business with a whole firm lens, which means we have courage and appropriately challenge when needed.
• Support each other in our roles as HR Business Partners so we can play to our strengths and be the best versions of our authentic selves.

We are also flexible on location and will consider candidates for our offices in Birmingham, Milton Keynes and Leeds.

The Responsibilities Of The HR Business Partner Team Are

• Contribute to the creation of the service line people plan in collaboration with service line people partner sponsors and leadership teams, supporting to translate business strategy into people priorities.
• Take responsibility for collaboratively driving the delivery of, and leadership reporting on, people plan and cyclical people activities including performance cycle, promotions, bonus and reward activity in assigned business areas.
• Collaborate with leaders to create the service line talent pipeline and drive succession planning conversations. This includes leading talent mapping discussions and identifying opportunities to develop team members and drive higher performance to create a diverse team for the future in a fair and sustainable way.
• Actively contribute to progressing our ‘through all' actions to ensure engagement, equity, inclusion, diversity, wellbeing and our culture are part of all we do as HR Business Partners and feature in all people activity. This includes data analysis and action planning following our engagement survey.
• Contribute to / closely collaborate with our employee relations and advisory teams on matters including business change projects such as restructures and TUPEs and supporting with performance matters and investigations.
• Proactively create and use people analytics to challenge and inform discussions with our client groups across all areas of people activity. This includes analysing all workforce metrics to provide data driven insights and recommendations.
• Provide high quality coaching to people managers and partners to ensure they role model our culture statements, expected behaviours and adopt a proactive approach to driving higher performance. This includes supporting to create our people manager webinar and upskilling series and promoting the resources on our people manager hub to drive consistency across all people related matters.
• Apply a future focused approach to strategic workforce planning alongside our Senior HR Business Partner, operations and finance leads to drive the creation of our optimum operating structure and optimise the workforce skills and capabilities critical to our future success.
• Empower junior ‘Aspire' leadership teams and people leads to provide diversity of perspective and thought leadership whilst supporting with project conceptualisation and delivery.

What are we looking for?

• Proven track record of coaching people managers including on employee relations matters
• Experience of project management and delivering a number of priorities at any one time
• Strong analytical skills with strong experience of using people metrics to add value to all people matters
• Great relationship building, communication and presentation skills
• Proactive interest in HR best practice and employment legislation

About Forvis Mazars

Forvis Mazars is a leading professional services network. The network operates under a single brand worldwide, with just two members: Forvis Mazars LLP in the United States and Forvis Mazars Group SC, an internationally integrated partnership operating in over 100 countries and territories.

Both member firms share a commitment to providing an unmatched client experience, delivering audit & assurance, tax and advisory services around the world. Together, our strategic vision strives to move our clients, people, industry and communities forward. Through our reach and areas of expertise, we help organisations respond to emerging sustainability issues in the global marketplace including human rights, climate change, environmental impacts and culture.

We are one diverse, multicultural, multi-generational team with a huge sense of connection and belonging. This is a place where you can take ownership of your career, get involved, believe in yourself and put your ideas into action.

At Forvis Mazars, we empower our people and celebrate individuality. We thrive on teamwork and are agile. We have bold foresight and give people the freedom to make a personal contribution to our shared purpose. We support one another to deliver quality, create change and have a deeper understanding, to help make an impact so that everyone can reach their full potential.

Being inclusive is core to our culture at Forvis Mazars; we want to ensure everyone, whether in the recruitment process or beyond is fully supported to be their unique self. To read more about our approach click here.

Our aim is to make the recruitment process as accessible and inclusive as possible - please contact us to discuss any changes you may require so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.

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