People Business Partner (12 month FTC)

Salary £67,087

Location London - Hybrid working with a 40% office requirement

This is a Temporary, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.

The Vacancy

This is a brilliant opportunity for a People Business Partner to join FSCS on a 12-month fixed term contract.

This interim role is for a highly skilled and motivated HR Generalist with substantial experience in employee relations and organisational restructures within the financial services or public sector industries. The role holder will support a wide range of HR functions, ensuring compliance with legal and organisational standards, and driving HR initiatives that align with business strategy. The HR Generalist will play a key role in enhancing employee engagement, supporting leadership in organisational changes, and ensuring smooth HR operations. They will pro-actively work with their stakeholders on their local strategic people plans, encouraging forward thinking, continuity planning and supporting their areas with employee performance and growth.

Key Priorities and Responsibilities

Employee Relations:

Provide expert advice and support on a range of employee relations issues, including disciplinaries, grievances, performance management, and absence management.
Act as a point of escalation for complex or high-risk employee relations cases, ensuring effective resolutions.
Build strong relationships with line managers to guide and support them in managing employee relations matters effectively.

Organisational Design:

Partner with senior leaders to advise and lead organisational restructures, including workforce planning, redundancy processes, redeployment, and transition strategies.
Ensure legal compliance and best practices are followed in managing redundancies or organisational changes.
Support employees through change management initiatives, providing coaching, advice, and appropriate support structures
Advise and support both employees and managers on TUPE-related matters, including changes to terms and conditions of employment, rights, and protections.

Stakeholder Relationships

Build strong, trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, acting as a critical friend and coach.
Proactively encourage and support stakeholders to focus on the longer‑term people strategy and workforce planning for their teams.
Provide constructive challenge and insight to senior leaders and managers, helping them make effective and sustainable people decisions.
Support the full talent management cycle, offering insight and challenge to ensure meaningful progression, development and succession planning are clearly identified and actively progressed

Policy and Compliance:

Develop, implement, and review HR policies and procedures to ensure alignment with best practices, legal requirements, and the organisation’s strategic goals.
Ensure HR practices are fully compliant with relevant employment legislation, particularly within the financial services or public sector environment.

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

We have identified the following skills, knowledge, and experience as essential for success in this role however we understand that everyone’s learning journey is different and there is no one size fits all. If you feel you have many of the below strengths but don’t tick all the boxes, we’d still love to hear from you.

A wealth of HR experience, with a strong focus on employee relations, and organisational design.
Proven experience managing complex employee relations issues and restructuring processes, including redundancy and redeployment.
In-depth knowledge of UK employment law, including TUPE regulations, employee relations, and redundancy procedures.
Strong understanding of HR policies, procedures, and best practices.
Familiarity with HR software systems and data analysis tools.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build relationships and influence at all levels of the organisation.
Strong negotiation and conflict resolution skills, with the ability to manage sensitive situations professionally and empathetically.
Strong project management skills, particularly in leading or supporting organisational change initiatives.

Desirable experience and qualifications

Familiarity with HRIS and ATS including Cascade, Networx and Vector
CIPD qualification (or working towards) or equivalent experience.

Our Offer

We have invested greatly in a flexible people offer that we’re proud of, that our employees love and that supports and promotes diversity, inclusion, and overall wellbeing.

Our hybrid policy supports a healthy work life balance allowing up to 60% work from home and 40% working from our brand new office space between Aldgate and Liverpool Street.

Key benefits include:

Employer pension contributions from 9% - 15% dependant on your contributions and length of service
Life assurance, income and critical illness protection
Private medical and dental insurance
EAP and Virtual GP
26 days annual leave + bank holidays and the option to sell 5 or buy up to 9 additional days per annum to suit your lifestyle
Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption leave - 6 months full pay
Additional discounts and options to earn rewards to spend at your choice of retailer

About Us

For over 20 years, FSCS has been the UK’s financial safety net, protecting customers when authorised financial firms fail and helping them get back on track.

We are an independent, non-profit organisation set up by government, offering a free service where customers keep every penny of the compensation they are owed when they claim directly with us. FSCS is funded by the financial services industry through an annual levy paid by firms authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) or the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

Through the 2008 banking crisis to the COVID-19 pandemic, FSCS has provided reassurance during the most challenging times, giving people confidence their money is safe. By maintaining trust in financial services, we help support financial stability and contribute to economic growth. Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Together, we’ve built a culture of empathy, resilience, and continuous improvement — always striving to do better and move faster in a complex financial landscape.

Join us and make a real difference.

Our Strategy

We’re evolving our claims model to scale and adapt as demand changes, simplifying processes and building resilience.
We're enhancing the way we handle advice claims so we respond efficiently, delivering fast, fair and consistent decisions for customers staying ready for failures across deposits, insurance and funeral plans.

Our enhanced claims model will help facilitate fast and fair decisions, a smoother experience and consistent outcomes for the customers we serve.

Our sense of purpose, embedded across the organisation, gives us a solid foundation on which to build our new strategy. We will sharpen how we deliver for customers, combining purpose with the very highest standards of performance.
We will define and embed a clear cultural framework that supports the delivery of our priorities, which will match our sense of purpose with the highest standards of delivery, supporting our people with the right tools and systems.
We will reinforce the core processes that shape our culture in practice, including how we work with our strategic partners and how we manage costs, to support professional judgement and deliver better customer outcomes.

Our delivery of our statutory responsibilities is funded by a financial services levy. This levy not only funds the compensation we pay to customers of failed financial services firms, it also contributes to consumer confidence, in the UK's financial services industry.
We take our responsibilities as a steward of the levy seriously. This means controlling our costs, thoughtfully managing risk, maximising our recoveries and ensuring consumer awareness of our work continues.

We will keep working with industry, regulators and our international partners to share best practice, strengthen preparedness and build consumer awareness of our work.