Human Resources Business Partner

Meraki Talent; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Meraki Talent is seeking 15 HR Business Partners for a London-based financial services institution. This urgent project requires a September/October start and a hybrid pattern (1 day in the office).

The role will support Workforce Change & Restructuring across multiple entities, covering TUPE, union engagement, redundancies, and cross-entity programmes with strong governance and risk controls. You will collaborate with HRBPs, Employee Relations, and specialist HR functions to deliver compliant,

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in workforce change and restructuring projects.
• Proven ability to engage with unions or works councils.
• Experience guiding large-scale redundancy programmes.
• Strong knowledge of employment law and regulatory obligations.

Responsibilities

• Drive and support allocated change programmes across entities.
• Lead HR workstreams for restructures, site set-ups, outsourcing, and cross-entity projects.
• Partner with in-country HRBPs and Employee Relations teams.
• Ensure governance, risk management, and clear communications.

Skills

Workforce change

Restructuring

TUPE

Union engagement

Redundancy programmes

Change management

Project management

Stakeholder management

International programmes

Employment law compliance

Excel data handling

Job description

URGENT HR project seeking 15x HR Business Partners to join a financial services institution.

Hybrid: 1 day in the office

Location: London

Recruiting NOW for a September/October start

Essential areas of experience needed

• Workforce Change/Planning
• TUPE
• Experience with Trade Unions
• Large scale redundancies

Restructuring Employee Relations Workforce Restructuring managing global change and restructuring programmes across multiple employing entities, supporting the shaping of the workforce to meet long-term objectives, improve business performance, optimise costs, and ensure compliance with legal and regulatory obligations. The function aims to deliver a simple, efficient, and insight-led Workforce Change & Restructuring service while maintaining a strong risk and control environment.

Overall Purpose of the Role

The role holder will support the Workforce Change and Restructuring delivery model across multiple entities and will be assigned projects across various business areas and locations.

Key responsibilities include:

• Driving and supporting allocated change programmes.
• Leading the HR workstream for initiatives such as restructures, LEE transfers, outsourcing, insourcing, new site set-ups, and cross-entity/global change projects.
• Partnering with in-country HRBPs, Employee Relations teams, and specialist HR functions as required.

Key Accountabilities

• The role holder will be responsible for delivering across the following areas:
• Project Initiation
• Consultation
• Implementation
• Communication
• Planning
• Governance and Risk Management
• Centre of Excellence (COE) collaboration

Key Skills

• Strong and demonstrable experience in workforce change and restructuring.
• Experience managing or partnering with unions, union representatives, or operating within highly unionised environments.
• Experience leading union and works council consultations.
• Workforce consultation and redundancy programme experience.
• Proven track record of leading large-scale or multiple concurrent change programmes.
• Experience delivering change programmes internationally.
• Strong understanding of current employment legislation.
• Excellent project management, change management, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience operating within highly matrixed organisations.
• Strong awareness of cultural and geographic sensitivities.
• Strong analytical and data management capability.
• Intermediate to advanced Excel skills including pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, data reconciliation, formulas, and managing large data sets.
• Technical expertise in consultation processes, union engagement, redundancy programmes, and employment law compliance.
• Strong programme and project management capability, including governance, tracking, and
• reporting.Proven ability to structure, run, and monitor complex programmes.
• Advanced Excel capability covering data manipulation, reporting, merging data sets, and quality checking large volumes of information.