People Transformation Manager - Maternity Cover - October Start in London

We’re Gravita

the accountants fuelling ambitious businesses.

We’re a full service, tech-enabled firm, working with entrepreneurs and businesses to help them achieve their goals, and make an impact in the world.

We’re growing fast and are bringing like-minded advisors together to form a full-service tech-enabled accounting partner for thousands of SMEs. Our team use their incredible expertise alongside intuitive technology to help businesses and entrepreneurs plan better and grow faster.

Our mission is to become the

UK’s leading tech-enabled accounting firm for SMEs.

We have ambitious goals and our high‑calibre team work hard to achieve them.

We are one team with one agenda, working collaboratively in a respectful environment to deliver a great service to our clients.

So if you join us, you’ll not only be working on exciting client challenges, you’ll also be helping us shape the future of accounting

The Role

We’re looking for an experienced People Transformation Manager to cover a 12-month maternity leave, joining at a pivotal moment for the firm.

This is a broad, senior-facing role spanning three interconnected areas: Places, M&A Integration and People Projects.

You’ll work closely with the Chief People Officer and Chief Transformation Officer, producing senior-quality outputs and influencing decisions that shape how Gravita operates and grows.

This role requires someone who can move between strategic thinking and hands‑on delivery – comfortable in multi-disciplinary stakeholder conversation one moment and deep in an integration plan the next.

Key Responsibilities

• M&A Integration
• Supporting people-side due diligence for new acquisitions, working closely with Finance, senior Gravita leadership and key stakeholders from the incoming firm on areas including workforce analysis, employment liability review and TUPE applicability.
• Working with the incoming firms key stakeholders to lead the integration of newly acquired teams into Gravita – contract alignment, policy harmonisation and HRIS onboarding.
• Managing trainee alignment and integration as part of each deal.
• Managing benefits communication and the practicalities of welcoming new colleagues into the firm.
• Working closely with People, Finance and the business to ensure integrations are joined up and run smoothly.
• Producing clear, concise people due diligence outputs with risk ratings and recommended mitigations for the CPO and deal team.
• Places
• Leading the transformation of Gravita’s workplace function across a portfolio of offices including London, Essex, Oxford, Bristol and Exeter.
• Working as part of M&A property workstreams to integrate newly acquired offices into the Gravita workplace operating model
• Steering Places-based culture and employee engagement initiatives including socials, charities and environment branding
• Reviewing and improving processes to drive consistency and efficiency across the estate.
• Managing supplier relationships and service standards, with a focus on getting the operating model right.
• Exploring the use of technology and AI to improve how we manage and report on our workplaces.
• People Projects
• Project managing recurring people programmes such as the annual salary review, ensuring the right stakeholders are involved at the right time and everything runs to plan.
• Supporting change projects such as the implementation of a new benefits platform or other people system improvements.

Keeping workstreams moving, flagging risks early and making sure senior stakeholders have what they need to make decisions.

Qualifications, Knowledge & Experience

• Proven experience in people-focused project management, ideally within a professional services or PE-backed environment.
• A track record of supporting M&A activity from a people perspective – due diligence, integration, contract and policy alignment, and TUPE.
• Comfortable managing multiple workstreams at pace and keeping senior stakeholders well-informed.
• Experience of workplace or facilities management, or a demonstrated ability to pick up a new operational area quickly.
• Strong written communication skills – able to produce clear, well-structured outputs for a senior audience.
• Collaborative and organised, with the confidence to work across Finance, People and the wider business.
• Experience of HRIS implementation or benefits platform change projects.
• Familiarity with working alongside external legal advisors on employment and TUPE matters.

What We Offer

• A genuinely varied and high-impact role spanning three business-critical areas at a pivotal moment in Gravita’s growth.
• Close working relationship with the CPO and CTO, with real influence over how the business operates.
• Hybrid working from our London, Aldgate Tower office with UK travel as required.
• A collaborative, ambitious People team that takes its work seriously but not itself.
• Your Career with Gravita

When you join Gravita, we’ll support you on your own growth journey. We want to be the place you learn, grow and unlock your true potential.

We’ll work with you to build a progression plan to outline how you’ll grow at our company and everything we’ll do to help you get there.

We’re also passionate about learning and development, to help you focus on your future.

• The Nitty Gritty
• Our standard working week is a 37.5-hour week on a hybrid basis
• Core working hours are 10am - 4pm Monday to Friday
• Flexible working and happy employees are at the top of our list here at Gravita and we have been working hard to support our teams through the fast-paced changes.
• Your development won’t be forgotten, our development support is extraordinary for a firm of our size.
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