HR Business Partner in London

We are a leading trading platform that is ambitiously expanding to the four corners of the globe. Our top-rated products have won prestigious industry awards for their cutting-edge technology and seamless client experience. We deliver only the best, so we are always in search of the best people to join our ever-growing talented team.

We're looking for an HR Business Partner to act as a true strategic partner to the business, working closely with the C-suite and senior leaders to translate strategy into people initiatives that drive performance, engagement, and sustainable growth. This role goes beyond day-to-day HR, shaping an accountable, high-performance culture through data-driven workforce planning, leadership development, and a strong employee experience.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Business Partnership: Partner with C-suite and senior leaders to translate business strategy into people initiatives that drive measurable performance, sustained engagement, and a culture of ownership, inclusion, and excellence.
• Workforce Planning & Capability Building: Use data, commercial insight, and forward-looking analysis to anticipate capability gaps, inform succession planning, and shape an agile workforce aligned to current and future business priorities.
• Talent & Onboarding Excellence: Collaborate with the Talent team to strengthen hiring strategies and deliver high-impact onboarding that accelerates time-to-productivity and sets clear performance expectations from day one.
• Performance & Accountability Frameworks: Design, embed, and continuously evolve performance frameworks that set high standards, reinforce accountability, and equip managers to set clear goals, give actionable feedback, and drive meaningful individual and team outcomes.
• Learning & Leadership Development: Support with building and delivering learning and development programs spanning technical skills, leadership capability, and high-potential development that directly support business results and long-term growth.
• Employee Experience & Engagement: Lead employee relations with empathy and integrity while driving initiatives that strengthen engagement, retention, and feedback culture, ensuring issues are addressed decisively and fairly.
• Policy, Governance & Compliance: Develop clear, scalable HR policies that reinforce expectations, support performance, and meet global best practices while ensuring full compliance with local labor laws and regulatory requirements.
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Leverage HR analytics to track critical people metrics (e.g., turnover, time-to-fill, engagement, performance outcomes), identify trends, and provide clear, actionable insights to leaders.
• Operational Excellence & Continuous Improvement: Partner closely with People Operations to streamline HR processes, payroll, and systems through automation and continuous improvement, delivering efficiency, accuracy, and operational rigor.
• Leadership & Role Modelling: Act as a visible senior leader and role model, championing high performance, accountability, and values-driven leadership across the office.

Requirements

• Significant experience in a senior HR Business Partner or People leadership role within a fintech, technology, or high-growth scale-up environment is preferred, where speed, change, and performance expectations are high.
• Proven track record of partnering with executive and senior leaders to drive people strategies that support growth, operational scale, and sustained performance.
• Strong experience designing, embedding, and evolving performance management frameworks in fast-moving businesses, including goal-setting, continuous feedback, and differentiation of performance.
• Demonstrated experience in workforce planning and capability building for scaling organizations, including succession planning for critical roles and emerging leadership pipelines.
• Experience supporting leaders through organizational change, transformation, and ambiguity, balancing pace with people impact.
• Hands-on experience managing complex employee relations matters in regulated, multi-jurisdictional environments, applying sound judgment and commercial pragmatism.
• Experience working closely with other Talents teams in competitive hiring markets, to build our employer brand and protect what makes us special as we scale globally.
• Strong analytical mindset with experience using people data and HR analytics to inform decisions in scaling environments (e.g. attrition risk, productivity, engagement, performance outcomes).
• Solid understanding of performance systems, incentive structures, and reward principles relevant to fintech and technology-led organizations.
• Experience working with modern HRIS platforms and people systems, leveraging automation and scalable processes to support growth.
• Strong working knowledge of employment legislation and HR compliance across multiple jurisdictions, with the ability to balance regulatory rigor with business agility.
• High level of commercial and regulatory awareness, enabling alignment between people decisions, risk management, and business performance.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the confidence to challenge leaders and raise standards while maintaining trust.
• Ability to operate comfortably in ambiguity, prioritize at pace, and deliver impact in a high-growth, results-oriented culture.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary: We believe great work deserves great pay! Your skills and talents will be rewarded with a salary that makes you feel valued and motivated.
• Work-Life Harmony: Join a company that genuinely cares about you - because your life outside of work matters just as much as your time on the clock.
• Generous Time Off: Need a breather? Our annual leave policy lets you recharge and enjoy life outside of work without a worry.
• Employee Referral Program: Love working here? Share the love! Bring your talented friends on board and get rewarded for growing our awesome team.
• Comprehensive Health & Pension Benefits: From medical insurance to pension plans, we've got your back. Plus, location-specific benefits and perks!
• Workation Wonderland: Live your digital nomad dreams with 30 extra days to work remotely from anywhere in the world (some restrictions apply). Adventure awaits!
• Volunteer Days: Make a difference! Take two additional paid days each year to support causes you care about and give back to the community.

Be a key player at the forefront of the digital assets movement, propelling your career to new heights! Join a dynamic and rapidly expanding company that values and rewards talent, initiative, and creativity. Work alongside one of the most brilliant teams in the industry.