People Partner - FTC in London

Office-based, 4 days in the office each week. Full-time.

Are you excited by experimentation and always looking for a better way of doing things? Are you keen to keep learning and developing whilst getting hands‐on experience? Are you ready to partner with business leaders in a high-growth Fintech? If so, we would love to hear from you!

Who We Are

Our vision is a world where all businesses are powered by embedded payments. Modulr enables businesses, from SMEs to Enterprise, to grow their revenue, drive efficiencies and deliver fantastic customer experiences by embedding payments into their products and operating systems. We provide products and services that allow clients to efficiently collect, reconcile, and disburse funds instantly via a range of payment schemes, accounts, and card products, fully controllable via API.

The Opportunity

Are you passionate about finding better ways of working and eager to make a real impact? Do you thrive in fast-paced, high-growth environments and enjoy partnering with business leaders? If so, we’d love to hear from you.

As a People Partner at Modulr, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping our people strategy and supporting our leaders to deliver on our ambitious goals. You’ll be a trusted advisor, coach, and project lead, helping to build a culture where everyone can do their best work.

What You’ll Do

• Strategic Partnership: Collaborate with business leaders and line managers to develop and deliver people plans aligned with Modulr's strategic objectives.
• Employee Relations: Provide expert advice and coaching on complex employee relations cases, ensuring compliance with current legislation and best practice.
• Manager Coaching: Provide guidance and hands‐on coaching to managers, equipping them with the skills and confidence to effectively lead their teams, navigate challenges, and build a positive working environment.
• Talent & Succession: Work with our L&D Lead to support people projects such as succession planning, talent reviews, and workforce planning, working closely with senior leaders and the Talent team.
• Organisational Design: Advise on organisational structure, performance review processes, and resource management to ensure consistency and effectiveness.
• Annual Processes: Support the People & Culture team with annual cycles (e.g., compensation review, performance management) and lead on ad hoc projects as required.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to enhance our people processes, policies, and employee experience.
• Own and deliver key projects aligned to the People Strategy, ensuring initiatives are executed effectively and drive measurable impact across the business.
• Use data‐driven insights to influence and guide leaders, identifying trends and opportunities to improve engagement, performance and organisational outcomes.
• Culture Champion: Promote Modulr's values and inclusive culture, ensuring all colleagues feel supported and empowered.

Who You Are

What you’ll need:

• Excellent working knowledge of HR, including ER, performance management, and stakeholder management.
• Outstanding stakeholder management experience, with the ability to challenge senior stakeholders and act as a trusted partner.
• Experience in fast‐paced, changing environments; able to work independently and problem‐solve effectively.
• Superb communication, organisational, and time‐management skills; strong IT literacy (Microsoft Office, Excel, HR systems).

Nice to haves:

• Experience in financial services or scale‐up environments.
• International HR experience including US, EU & Indian.
• Flexible, can‐do attitude and ability to maintain confidentiality.

What We Offer You

• Share Options – Company Share Option Plan (CSOP), giving you the opportunity to benefit from any increase in share value in the event of a sale, merger, or flotation.
• Bonus – Annual discretionary bonus, based on company and individual performance.
• Flexible benefits – £1000 to spend on benefits to suit you, including private medical insurance, gym membership, dental, etc.
• Wellbeing app – Confidential, on‐demand access to therapy, coaching, counselling, management training, or mindfulness sessions with accredited professionals.
• Holidays – 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays) plus your birthday off. In the UK, Christmas Day, Boxing Day, and New Year's Day are fixed holidays; you can choose the remaining days.
• Learning opportunities – Two‐day onboarding programme (ModStart) and ongoing development support.
• Company‐wide events – Participate in collaborative and engaging events with colleagues across the business.
• Bike to work / E‐bike scheme.

Mod Inclusion

At Modulr, we’re committed to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture where everyone feels they belong and can bring their whole self to work. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds as we believe it’s the right thing for our people, our business, and the community we operate in.