Senior HR Business Partner, Tax & Legal

Deloitte LLP; Leeds, Guildford, Bristol, Cambridge, Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Deloitte LLP is seeking a pragmatic HR Business Partner for its Leeds office. This role involves working closely with senior leadership to execute people strategies and improve organizational performance. The candidate should demonstrate strong leadership and data-driven decision-making skills. Join a progressive team focused on maximizing employee potential and driving inclusive workplace practices.

Qualifications

• Experience at senior manager level in HR required.
• Proven track record in core HR competencies.
• Exposure to commercial environments is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Deliver cyclical people-related activities including Performance and Talent Identification.
• Align HR plan with business strategy to meet firm objectives.
• Drive the People & Purpose agenda with oversight on inclusion.

Skills

Commercial acumen

Client-centric service

Leadership

Strategic advisory

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Education

CIPD qualified

Job description

Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Gatwick, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Reading

Business Line

Enabling Functions

Date published

29-May-2025

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Connect to your Industry

Strong financial planning is just the start. This is where you can change the fortunes of an organisation, working with great minds across our business. Because there’s one thing that makes our advice better than our competitors: our people.

If you are a leader, not a follower and you’re looking to join a progressive professional services organisation that puts people at the top of its agenda, then this role is for you. As an accomplished HR Business Partner, you stand out as being a creative thinker with strong commercial acumen, capability to juggle competing priorities and the confidence to deliver to a client base with high expectations.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte?It’show we approach the thousands of decisions we make everyday. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, whereverwe arein the world, welead the way,serve with integrity, take care of each other ,fosterinclusion, andcollaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision wemake and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it mattersmost .

Connect to your opportunity

A credible partner and advisor to the business, pragmatic and commercially focused, with the ability to work with ambiguity. Navigating multiple stakeholder relationships, in a matrix environment, to drive delivery and execution of the People & Purpose ambition and HR plan:

- Unlocking people Potential and maximising performance

- Providing fulfilling experience to our people

- Fostering a relentless focus on inclusion

• Leadership partner and strategic advisor - Partners closely with the People & Purpose partner, the senior business leadership team and COO, to deliver execution of the People & Purpose ambition and HR plan.
• Delivery lead - Accountable for the delivery of all cyclical people related activities including, Performance, Reward, Promotion, Talent Identification and Succession Planning within designated service line.
• Implementation of business strategy - Aligns the HR plan with the business strategy to meet the commercial objectives of the firm and is able to articulate the HR contribution to overall business success.
• HR Champion - Champion of our HR strategy, culture, vision, and values whilst advocating the power of self service and promoting the benefits of leader led activity and decision making.
• Partners with COEs - Drives the People & Purpose and HR agenda forward by working closely with Communities of Expertise and Central Business Services, seeking continuous improvement in service delivery and client satisfaction.
• Data driven - Analyses data trends to provide insight that informs pro-active actions to further support business objectives, including measuring success, and identifying areas for improvement.
• Inclusion - Applies an inclusion/wellbeing mindset at all times, raising awareness of service line responsibilities through P&P channels and ensuring a diverse talent pipeline.
• Legal and employee relations - Provides counsel to the leadership team on complex and high-risk matters drawing on expertise of appropriate HR teams (e.g. Employee Relations). Ensures compliance with legal requirements to mitigate business risk (reputational, legal, and financial) across HR and the business.
• Firmwide People Strategy - Works in squads across the HR function to help shape and design people products or offerings, aligned to our firmwide HR strategy. Provides thought leadership as well as contributing as a squad member or sprint lead to deliver against the HR strategy.
• Business change – Work with business to identify opportunities or need for organizational change and connects with ER to support the business in preparation for the announcement. Actively involved in TUPEs, mergers and acquisitions (incl. due diligence, grade & role mapping, announcement, consultation, integration/offboarding).
• Talent management - accountable for maintaining visibility of and driving meaningful action for top talent within the service line. Working with service line leadership to ensure development plans are in place, that highest priority individuals are supported, and challenged, to achieve their potential.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

• Experience at senior manager level and have a proven track record in core HR competencies and exposure to the associated risks
• Delivery focused and able to demonstrate a highly client centric service- the ability to get things done
• Experience of working in a highly commercial environment ideally, but not essentially, within Financial/ Professional Services
• Understand operating in a COE model and how to leverage those relationships to deliver large scale projects
• Able to interpret data and use this to spot trends and make considered decisions quickly
• Comfortable in a fast-paced and complex matrix environment and relish working in a change environment
• Adept at communicating, influencing, coaching, educating, challenging, and managing senior stakeholders
• CIPD qualified (or equivalent) with evidence of further education being beneficial

Connect to your business -Enabling Functions

Collaboration is central to everything we do at Deloitte. From IT to HR, marketing and more, our teams help to support the wider business in everything they do. Bringing your individual skills and specialist knowledge, you can make a far-reaching impact. Come join us.

Human Resources

At Deloitte, Human Resources is transforming. We are already an award-winning HR team but we’re not resting there. We want to make an impact that matters for our people, our clients and for society. To achieve this, we're firmly embedding HR into the business, advising and innovating along with our business leaders.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

Connect with your colleagues

"We’re in the process of transforming the way we do resourcing, to future proof our offering. It’s exciting and there’s never been a better time to join us.”

-Jhon, Enabling Functions

“Good HR (Human Resource) is about far more than bringing the right new talent into the business. In addition to leading the way in recruitment, we are the ones making sure that flexibility and inclusivity are more than just soundbites. “

-Jim, Enabling Functions

"Deloitte’s a large, complex and fast-paced organisation but it’s open to new ideas. Everyone is encouraged to show initiative and challenge the norm.”

-Lisa, Enabling Functions

Our hybrid working policy

You’ll be based in one of our UK locations with hybrid working.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life.That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You’ll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritiseyour wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Connect to your return to work opportunity

Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break?

For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills, and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of two years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level .

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers