Senior People Business Partner

Role Description

The purpose of the role is to lead and deliver a highly visible strategic and commercially focused HR partnership in India acting as a trusted advisor to senior leaders and managers. The role will provide expert guidance and decision support across the full spectrum of HR generalist activities including employee relations employment legislation workforce planning talent strategy organisational design change management reward performance and culture.

This role will play a critical leadership position within the India HR team with accountability for driving people strategy managing risk and enabling business performance while aligning closely with the Global HR function and supporting the wider APAC region.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic & Commercial Business Partner

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders and business heads influencing decisions through strong commercial judgement people insights and risk awareness.

• Own the people agenda for assigned business areas ensuring alignment with business strategy growth plans and transformation initiatives.

• Lead complex and highrisk Employee Relations matters providing pragmatic legally compliant and commercially sound recommendations.

• Coach and challenge leaders to build effective inclusive and highperforming teams.

• Partner with leadership on organisational design workforce planning succession planning and talent strategies to support medium and longterm business objectives.

• Drive and sponsor peoplerelated change initiatives including restructures integrations and business transformations.

• Use people data and insights to proactively identify trends risks and opportunities and to influence decisionmaking.

HR Leadership & Management

• Provide functional leadership for HR operations in India ensuring consistent highquality service delivery across the employee lifecycle.

• Act as the escalation point for complex ER cases including disciplinary grievance performance management redundancy and exit management.

• Ensure full compliance with Indian employment legislation maintaining deep uptodate knowledge and proactively advising the business on legal risk and mitigation.

• Lead relationships with external stakeholders including labour authorities legal advisors auditors and regulatory bodies.

• Own and lead HR audit compliance and due diligence activities identifying gaps and driving sustainable corrective actions.

• Oversee payroll governance ensuring accuracy timeliness and statutory compliance while partnering effectively with vendors and internal teams.

• Provide strategic oversight of mobility activities advising on policy cost risk and employee experience for domestic and international moves.

• Champion Health Safety and Wellbeing initiatives ensuring leadership accountability and a strong safety culture.

• Lead the optimisation adoption and governance of Workday HRIS acting as a subjectmatter expert and change leader.

• Mentor and develop junior HR team members building capability consistency and bench strength within the HR function.

• Contribute to regional and global HR initiatives with capacity to support the wider APAC HR agenda.

Leadership Governance & Projects

• Lead crossfunctional HR projects such as engagement surveys culture initiatives leadership development programs and policy harmonisation.

• Translate global HR frameworks into locally effective solutions balancing consistency with local market realities.

• Act as a culture carrier and role model reinforcing organisational values and ethical standards.

• Provide strategic input into policy design and review ensuring relevance fairness and legal robustness.

Performance Assessment Senior Level Expectations

In addition to the existing competencies the Senior HRBP is expected to demonstrate:

• Strategic judgement and decisionmaking Makes balanced wellreasoned decisions in complex and ambiguous situations.

• Executive presence and credibility Trusted by senior leaders; able to influence without authority.

• Risk management mindset Proactively identifies people legal and reputational risks and drives mitigation.

• Leadership and accountability Takes full ownership of outcomes; leads through others where required.

• Change leadership Guides leaders and teams through change with clarity empathy and structure.

• Systems thinking Understands the downstream impact of HR decisions on business performance and employee experience.

Experience Required

• 815 years of progressive HR experience with significant time spent in a Senior HRBP or equivalent leadership role.

• Proven experience operating in complex fastpaced and matrixed organisations preferably within a multinational or global environment.

• Demonstrated expertise in Employee Relations including handling highrisk sensitive and complex cases independently.

• Strong experience partnering with senior leaders and business heads influencing outcomes at a strategic level.

• Track record of leading HR initiatives across talent engagement performance and organisational change.

• Deep working knowledge of Indian employment law with the ability to apply it pragmatically in commercial contexts.

• Experience working through ambiguity transformation and change with resilience and confidence.

• Strong consulting facilitation and coaching skills.

• Highly organised proactive and deliveryfocused with the ability to manage competing priorities.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to engage at all organisational levels.

• Experience supporting regional or global HR agendas is strongly preferred.

About FNZ

FNZ is committed to opening up wealth so that everyone everywhere can invest in their future on their terms. We know the foundation to do that already exists in the wealth management industry but complexity holds firms back.

We created wealths growth platform to help. We provide a global end-to-end wealth management platform that integrates modern technology with business and investment operations. All in a regulated financial institution.

We partner with the worlds leading financial institutions with over US$2.2 trillion in assets on platform (AoP).

Together with our clients we empower nearly 30 million people across all wealth segments to invest in their future.