Interim HR Manager (12 month FTC) in London

The Value of Active Minds

About Jupiter

Jupiter is one of the UK’s leading investment management companies with just under 500 employees and £47.1 billion worth of assets under management (as at 30th June 2025). Jupiter provides investment services to individual and institutional investors through mutual funds (UK unit trusts, Luxembourg SICAVs and Dublin OEICs), separately managed accounts and sub-advised funds. Jupiter has experienced a period of international growth with offices open in EMEA and APAC.

The majority of our employees are based in our London office located just minutes from Victoria station which provides stair-free access from both the Underground’s Victoria line and National Rail platforms, as well as limited road crossings to the Jupiter office. Our London office was designed to encourage employees to live active, healthy lives with floor-to-ceiling windows that allow for greater natural light and the benefit of a private balcony, table tennis room, cycle storage and on-site shower and locker facilities. The short distance to Green Park and St James' Park also provides employees with a natural space to relax during their lunch break and a healthy alternative to office-based meetings.

We offer our UK employees a 3:2 hybrid working arrangement where Tuesdays, Thursdays and a third day of your choice are worked from the office. The other two days may be worked from home. This facilitates collaboration and allows employees to maximise productivity whilst maintaining a healthy work/life balance.

Background

We are looking for an experienced HR generalist to join our team on a one-year fixed term contract, to provide high-quality HR support across the organisation as well as design and implement our L&D strategy. In this role you will step into projects, initiatives, and casework across multiple teams, ensuring continuity, consistency, and best-practice HR delivery in a fast-paced asset-management environment. This is a wonderful opportunity for an experienced HR generalist that is looking to gain some functional expertise in L&D under the guidance and support of the HO HR Business Partnering and HR Director.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide flexible HR support across multiple business units, adapting quickly to differing team needs and priorities.
• Deliver high-quality, credible HR advice that aligns with company values, culture, legal regulatory standards.
• Lead and deliver firm-wide people and cultural projects, managing timelines, stakeholders, and deliverables, ensuring completion to a high standard.
• Run the Group wide annual Training Needs Analysis and create the annual L&D offering, utilising existing programmes e.g. coaching, mentoring and Leadership Development as well as identification of new solutions to be delivered by third parties.
• Support the delivery of annual people processes across the full employment lifecycle, including resource planning, performance management, talent initiatives, employee engagement and reward.
• Support effective performance management practices, including coaching line managers, addressing underperformance, facilitating year-end rating calibration, and overseeing appraisal processes.
• Identify opportunities to improve HR processes and working methods, implementing changes that enhance efficiency and impact.
• Partner with HR specialist teams such as Reward, Talent Acquisition, and SMCR to support effective delivery of all HR services and compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate with colleagues in other Corporate Functions such as Legal, Risk & Compliance on complex people issues e.g. regulated roles working in overseas locations.
• Apply sound judgement in balancing HR risks with the company’s strategic and commercial objectives.

Desired Skills / Experience

• Proven experience as an HRBP or in a generalist role, ideally within financial services or a similarly regulated environment.
• Strong track record of managing complex ER cases with sound judgement and confidence.
• Good understanding of the wider L&D offering and ability to identify varied solutions to support employee growth. Do not need to have led an L&D function previously.
• Experience in identifying and providing development solutions at a company or business unit level for people/teams.
• Excellent project management skills, with the ability to prioritise, organise, and deliver results.
• Excellent communication skills, confident with liaising with internal and external contacts at all levels and building strong working relationships.
• Professional, reliable and conscientious, trusted with confidential information.
• Problem solving skills, capable of maintaining accuracy and attention to detail whilst under pressure and meeting deadlines.
• A flexible, adaptable and collaborative team player with a positive and proactive attitude.
• A motivated individual, who can work autonomously.
• Numerate and IT literate, including working knowledge of Microsoft Office (in particular Excel), proficient working with technology and applications.
• Ability to prioritise and multi-task.

This role is subject to the Conduct Rules set by the FCA.

Don’t meet every requirement? At Jupiter we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, so if you are interested in this role, but don’t think your experience aligns perfectly with every listed requirement in the job description, we would encourage you to apply. You may be the right person for this role.