People Manager

Our client is looking for an experience or aspiring People Manager to join their high-performing people team, supporting the People & Culture Director, the People & Recruitment Officer and the wider business in the delivery of people related projects acrossthe business, with a particular focus on employee benefits, employee relations and compliance/regulation.

Accountabilities

The role comprises, but is not restricted to the following core people projects:
1. Employee benefits
- Work closely with the People & Culture Director and Employee Benefits Director to:

- Liaise and co-manage relationships with key providers
- Manage the annual renewal process from the People Team’s perspective
- Manage comms to staff around core benefit proposition
- Lead on proposals for the introduction of new or changing benefits in terms of research, business case preparation and implementation
- Be involved in the assessment of providers and platforms
- Investigate the potential for a forward-looking and flexible benefits package for our people to be launched in the next 1-2 years.

2. Compliance and regulatory responsibilities
- Lead on managing the people aspects of the compliance and regulatory regime, notably SMCR, collaborating closely with the compliance team
- Manage liaison with compliance team re: FCA data requests and surveys
- Manage process and task plans for the management and implementation of new of regulatory change.

3. Employee relations
- Play a key role in the management and execution of:

- Dismissals, redundancies and other settlements
- Underperformance issues
- Health and mental health issues, including occupational health liaison where necessary
- Low-level issues and dispute resolution.

In addition, the role will work collaboratively with the People & Culture Director and People & Recruitment Officer to cover the following:
1. Acquisitions and integrations
- Support with due diligence requests, analysis and resource planning for people-related aspects of acquisition and integration projects e.g.
- Induction planning for new starters
- Contract negotiations and TUPE transfers
- Preparing due diligence requests for potential acquisitions
- Reviewing due diligence data and highlighting key issues to the acquisition team.

2. Policy and people logistics
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of people policy across core areas of responsibility
- Collaborate with the wider ops team to manage People Team tasks associated with the office and operational projects e.g. office hours, hybrid working logistics, events, office scoping, etc
- Assist with the management of people admin and ad-hoc requests where necessary.

3. Recruitment and selection
- Support the People & Recruitment Officer and People & Culture Director with the recruitment process as and when necessary e.g. at role creation, selection and interview stages and occasionally managing specific roles.

4. HR project work
- Engagement, Awards & CSR
- L&D
- Pay & Reward
- Performance Management
- D&I
- Succession Planning
- Values and Culture
- Health and Wellbeing
- And more

Experience and Qualifications
- Have minimum 3 years’ experience in a relevant people role in a comparable organisation. Experience within financial services will be a distinct advantage, but is not essential
- Be familiar with FCA regulations in an IFA setting or an equivalently heavily regulated business sector
- Be able to demonstrate practical experience of 80%+ of the key accountabilities described in this role specification.

Competencies

We need someone who can:

- Be passionate about the people and culture agenda
- Come with ideas, we’re a small team ready to embrace smart thinking and creativity
- Deliver an excellent level of service to and build strong proactive working relationships with employees, partners and key external stakeholders
- Show empathy and a deep level of understanding for individuals working within the organisation, demonstrating sound professional judgement and a common-sense, solution-focused approach to problems
- Demonstrate excellent attention to detail with high quality written and verbal communication skills, and a great respect for confidentiality

If you are interested in this position then please forward your CV to Natalie at Artemis Recruitment.