Hr Manager

You’ll be the person leaders turn to for clarity, confidence and practical solutions.\n\nKey responsibilities\n\n * Build strong relationships with senior leaders, contributing to strategic discussions and supporting the delivery of business objectives.\n\n * Lead, coach and develop a team of five HR professionals, ensuring high performance, accountability and continuous growth.\n\n * Oversee the full spectrum of generalist HR activity — recruitment, performance, policy, legislation, and day‑to‑day people support.\n\n * Provide confident, timely guidance on employee relations matters, ensuring issues are resolved fairly and efficiently.\n\n * Strengthen leadership and management capability through coaching, guidance and targeted development interventions.\n\n * Design and deliver training sessions that build core skills and support a culture of learning.\n\n * Play a key role in organisational change, including restructures and consultation processes.\n\n * Drive HR projects that enhance processes, improve efficiency and elevate the employee experience.\n\n * Monitor team performance, productivity and service quality, ensuring HR delivers in a professional and cost‑effective way.\n\n * Hold regular 1:1s, oversee annual performance reviews and support ongoing development conversations.\n\n * Stay up to date with employment legislation and industry best practice, ensuring compliance and proactive risk management.\n\n * Represent and model company values in all interactions and decision‑making.\n\n * Travel to other offices when required.\n\nWhat you’ll bring\n\n * CIPD Level 5 or above\n\n * Proven experience leading and developing an HR team.\n\n * Strong generalist background with depth in ER, performance management and development planning.\n\n * Experience in a fast‑paced, customer‑focused, high‑volume environment — Financial Services experience is desirable.\n\n * Commercial awareness and the ability to balance people and business needs.\n\n * Solid understanding of UK employment law and HR best practice.\n\n * A blend of strategic thinking and hands‑on delivery.\n\nWhy join?\n\nYou’ll be joining a medium‑sized Financial Services business that genuinely invests in people development and continuous improvement. This is a role with visibility, influence and the scope to shape how HR supports the organisation — while still staying close to the work that makes a real difference day to day