HR Business Partner

Join Pinsent Masons as an HR Business Partner, supporting the Finance and Projects Practice Group. You'll work closely with the Senior HR Business Partner to provide proactive and commercially focused HR support, building influential relationships and developing a strong understanding of the teams you support.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build trusted relationships with partners, line managers, and senior stakeholders, providing credible HR advice and practical support.
• Deliver people plans, talent initiatives, career mapping, and promotion processes.
• Support performance review and moderation activity, coach managers, and oversee performance improvement plans.
• Manage employee relations matters, including sickness absence, flexible working, grievances, and disciplinary processes.
• Partner with specialist teams to support recruitment, new starters, probation reviews, reward activity, learning and development, trainees, and newly qualified lawyers.
• Produce reports, interpret HR data, conduct exit interviews, and manage administration and operational activity.

Requirements:

• Extensive generalist HR experience with strong employee relations knowledge.
• Proven business partnering experience within professional services or a similar complex organisation.
• Experience advising and influencing partners, line managers, and senior stakeholders on HR policies and people matters.
• Strong technical HR knowledge, including employment legislation and current best practice.
• Excellent communication, relationship-building, organisation, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong IT and analytical skills, particularly in Microsoft Excel.

Benefits:

• 25 days holiday
• Bonus Scheme
• Pension Scheme
• Electric car scheme
• Enhanced Family Leave policies
• Private Medical Insurance
• Health, lifestyle, and wellbeing benefits