People Business Partner in City of Westminster

Quanta Group is a next-generation financial services Group, responsible for assets under advice of around £17bn and nearly 75,000 clients across platform, DFM and advice. Quanta Group provides a full wealth management service through three core businesses - an investment platform, financial planning and advice business, and discretionary fund manager. Each business operates independently yet gives financial planners the flexibility to deliver advice using any combination of our products, investments, and services.

As a People Business Partner within our wealth management business, you will work closely with senior leaders and managers to align people strategy with business objectives in a highly regulated, client-focused environment. Acting as a trusted advisor, coach, and challenger, you will support leaders across the full employee lifecycle, driving organisational performance, capability, and engagement. The role blends strategic partnering with hands-on delivery, ensuring people practices support growth, operational excellence, and a strong risk and compliance culture.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic People Partnering: Act as a trusted advisor to leaders, influencing, coaching and challenging them on their approach ensuring a fair and equitable employee experience is at the heart of every decision.
• Stakeholder Management and Collaboration: Work closely with the wider people and culture team to deliver on joined up people solutions. Build strong relationships across the business acting as a commercially literate, credible and pragmatic partner.
• Employee Relations & Case Management: Lead and manage complex employee relations cases, including performance management, disciplinaries, grievances, absences, and capability. Build manager capability through coaching and guidance, enabling confident and timely people management.
• Change and Organisational Development: Support leaders through organisational change including restructures and TUPE as well as business transformation initiatives where required.
• Talent, Performance and Capability: Support and drive talent management activities including succession planning, identifying top talent, and capability development. Advise and help drive performance frameworks, objective setting, and performance reviews.
• Workforce Planning and Resourcing: Partner with leaders to proactively plan workforce requirements aligned to business strategy, growth plans, and capability needs. Use data and insight to identify capacity gaps and skills requirements, shaping effective resourcing and succession approaches.
• Engagement, Culture and Wellbeing: Partner with leaders to embed a positive, inclusive and high-performance culture across the business. Use engagement data and feedback to identify themes, shape pragmatic actions, and support leaders to improve employee engagement and experience.

Specialist Skills, Qualifications and Experience

Essential:

• Proven experience working in a People Business Partner role supporting leaders within a financial services industry.
• Demonstratable experience managing a range of complex employee relations issues from start to finish.
• Sound working knowledge of employment law.
• Experience working within a fast-paced changing environment.
• Experience supporting on organisational change, restructures and transformational people projects.
• Demonstrated ability to balance commercial priorities with fair and employee-centred decision-making.
• Confident influencer with strong coaching and stakeholder management skills.

Desirable:

• CIPD level 5 or equivalent experience.
• Experience partnering with senior leadership.
• Experience working within a platform business.