HR Business Partner

Job Title

HR Business Partner

Job Description

About IG Group

IG is a FTSE 100 fintech operating across five continents, serving over 1.3m customers and handling billions of dollars in transactions – built on scale, trust, and proof. We didn't pivot to innovation; it's how we've always operated. What that means for the people who work here is real: genuinely complex problems to solve, the technology and resources to tackle them properly, and the kind of scope that's rare in established businesses. The bar is high – bring a curious and forward-thinking mindset and we'll give you the platform to define what comes next. Join us at IG – the future gets built here.

About the Opportunity

This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious HR professional to develop their career partnering with senior leaders across Finance, Risk, and HR—three functions central to IG's governance, growth, and transformation.

Reporting to the Head of HR for Group Functions & Trading & Operations, you will be the trusted HR partner for Finance, Risk, and HR, delivering strategic people planning through to operational excellence. You will actively manage the relationship with the Chief Risk Officer, gaining valuable executive-level partnering experience.

This role offers a genuine blend of strategic and operational HR work—organisational design, talent planning, and culture initiatives alongside core HR delivery. If you're looking to step up your stakeholder management and deepen your commercial impact, this is your opportunity.

Key Responsibilities:

Business Partnership & People Planning

• Act as the primary HR partner for Finance, Risk, and HR functions, building trusted relationships with leaders at all levels

• Actively manage the relationship with the Chief Risk Officer, providing proactive HR advice and developing your executive stakeholder capability

• Build and input to annual people plans for each client group, aligning people priorities with business objectives

• Partner with managers to translate business needs into practical people solutions

Strategic Workforce Planning & Recruitment

• Partner with leaders to understand future capability needs and translate these into workforce plans

• Identify critical roles, skills gaps, and succession risks within your client groups

• Collaborate with Talent Acquisition on recruitment strategies and support senior hiring processes

• Input to headcount planning and resource allocation with a commercial lens

Talent, Performance & Succession

• Support performance management cycles, ensuring quality conversations, fair calibration, and appropriate differentiation

• Coordinate talent reviews and contribute to succession planning for critical roles

• Coach managers on performance conversations, development planning, and addressing underperformance

Employee Relations

• Own employee relations cases within your client groups, managing them through to resolution with professionalism and pace

• Partner with the Employee Relations team to align on approach, ensure consistency, and escalate complex/high-risk cases

• Provide clear, practical advice to managers on disciplinary, grievance, capability, and absence matters

• Build manager confidence in handling people issues through coaching and guidance

Embedding High-Performance Culture

• Champion IG's values and performance principles, role-modelling expected behaviours

• Support leaders to set clear expectations, recognise high performance, and address underperformance consistently

• Drive engagement actions within your client groups, translating survey insights into improvements

Change & Organisational Effectiveness

• Support organisational design and restructuring initiatives, contributing to business cases and change plans

• Help implement change programmes with clear communication and effective stakeholder engagement

HR Operations & Core Delivery

• Deliver cyclical HR activities with excellence—performance reviews, compensation cycles, engagement surveys, and talent processes

• Use HR data to identify trends, flag risks, and inform decision-making

• Collaborate with HR Operations and Centres of Excellence to ensure seamless service delivery

Key Deliverables & Outcomes

• Build trusted partnerships with Finance, Risk, and HR leadership teams, becoming their go-to HR advisor

• Develop a credible working relationship with the Chief Risk Officer

• Develop and deliver people plans aligned with business priorities

• Partner with Talent Acquisition to hire high-quality talent into critical roles

• Deliver core HR processes on time and to a high standard

• Manage employee relations cases effectively—timely resolution, fair outcomes, appropriate escalation

• Contribute to organisational change initiatives with effective planning and communication

• Provide accurate HR data and insights that support leadership decision-making

Leadership Success Profile:

Professional Experience

• Solid HR Business Partner experience, ideally within a fast-paced corporate or financial services environment

• Strong employee relations experience with a track record of owning cases, supported by ER specialists

• Experience contributing to workforce planning, headcount management, and recruitment strategies

• Experience delivering core HR processes including performance management and talent reviews

• Exposure to organisational change or transformation projects

• Track record building effective relationships with senior stakeholders, with appetite to develop executive-level skills

• Sound knowledge of UK employment law and HR best practice

Skills & Attributes

• Trusted Advisor: Builds credibility through reliability, sound judgement, and practical solutions

• ER Confident: Comfortable owning employee relations cases; knows when to escalate

• Commercially Curious: Connects HR activity to business outcomes

• Developing Executive Presence: Confident with senior leaders; eager to grow influence at executive level

• Delivery Focused: Gets things done with quality and pace

• Strong Communicator: Clear, confident style; flexes approach for different audiences

• Collaborative Partner: Works effectively across HR and with cross-functional teams

• Follows our performance principles: Lead and Inspire, Think Big, Champion the Client, Deliver at Pace, Raise the Bar

The Perks

Your growth fuels our success! Thrive with tailored development programs, mentoring opportunities with leaders, and clear career progression. Expand your network through committees, sports and social clubs. Enjoy extra time off for volunteering and community work.

As well as having the chance to attend regular social events and join special-interest groups, you get an attractive selection of benefits working with IG:

• 12% Flexible Benefits Package over and above your base salary, and wide variety of pension, insurance and medical plans to choose from

• Participation in our annual performance based bonus scheme

• Matched giving for your fundraising activity

• Flexible working hours and work-from-home opportunities

• Career-focused technical and leadership trainings in-class and online, incl. unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning platform

• A day off on your birthday 

• Two days’ volunteering leave per year

• Regular coaching and development sessions with senior leadership will help you optimise your leadership impact and identify growth opportunities for both you and your team

Learn more about the Perks here!

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