HR Business Partner

About Barclays

Barclays is a transatlantic consumer, corporate and investment bank offering products and services across personal, corporate and investment banking, credit cards and wealth management, with a strong presence in our two home markets of the UK and the US.

With over 325 years of history and expertise in banking, Barclays operates in over 40 countries and employs approximately 130,000 people. Barclays moves, lends, invests and protects money for customers and clients worldwide. Please visit our website here for more information.

Role Purpose

The role holder will be a HR Business Partner in a global team of five supporting Barclaycard International Technology. The role will work in partnership with senior business leaders, contributing to the development of the business agenda and delivering the associated people plan, which is likely to consist of:

• Structural and cultural organisation change and its impact on people
• Reward and pay review processes
• Performance Development
• Location Strategy
• Resourcing
• People capability build / Talent development
• Employee Relations
• HR Transformation
• Working closely with key clients in an advisory capacity to deliver across all aspects of the HR lifecycle
• Communicating business priorities to HR Centres of Excellence Partners (Reward/Resourcing/Learning & Talent/Employee Relations) and interfacing with them to ensure delivery of HR products and services to the business
• Supporting the Business Partner team to ensure that Global HR strategies are delivered and objectives are met

Key Accountabilities

Business Partnering

• Apply HR expertise and commercial understanding to partner the business leadership. Interpret the BU/Functional areas' plans, diagnose the people implications and translate that into a clear people plan
• Provide trusted and expert advice and support on a range of HR issues such as reward, employee relations, talent, performance, organisation development/change, culture, leadership and learning and development
• Coach and support business leaders on employee engagement and motivation
• Drive the talent plan for the business to build sustainable people capability
• Support the business leadership to build a high performance culture, aligned to the Group Behaviors and Values
• Partner with HR operational and specialist colleagues to deliver a seamless HR service to the business
• Provide advice and guidance to leaders on the effective management of change and lead the associated HR actions and plans

Support the project management of:

• Core HR processes delivered by the HR shared service organisation
• Organisational Design and Location Strategy
• Performance development process
• The annual pay round process
• People related management information and metrics
• People Plan for relevant areas
• Contribution to pan-BI COO HR People Plan
• Central reporting for all HR MI reports including some ad-hoc reporting
• Support internal and external resourcing to attract and retain talent in the right place with the right skills, including direct involvement in critical hires as required

Person Specification

• Bachelors Degree / Equivalent Experience
• Previous HR Business Partner & Project Management Experience, preferably within Financial Services or a global customer-focused organisation
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills, with the ability to incorporate metrics and analysis into HR delivery
• Outstanding verbal and communication skills, with poise and confidence to interact with all levels of management
• Ability to manage high volumes of work, execute flawlessly, and understand HR processes
• The successful candidate will be a motivated self-starter, confident, and able to navigate through change
• They will be a strong team player, commercial, and client-centric
• Strong personal credibility with the ability to build trusted relationships with senior managers in order to influence
• Change and project management experience
• Good understanding of all aspects of HR from an operational and transformational perspective
• Experience in managing Change from an HR perspective
• Commercially astute
• Strong analytical ability, numerate
• Effective relationship builder with good influencing skills, across a range of diverse stakeholders
• Self-confident, with high integrity, willing to challenge appropriately
• Resilient, able to deal with organisational complexity and operate at pace
• Sound judgment, able to read situations and apply discretion and clear thought to resolve them

Risk and Control Objective

All Barclays colleagues have to ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy Standards

Benefits

Our customers deserve the best. The same goes for our employees. That's why at Barclays you'll receive a range of benefits that include a competitive salary and all the tools, technology and support you need to succeed.

Our Culture

Everything we do is shaped by the five values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship. The values inform the foundations of our relationships with customers and clients, but they also shape how we measure and reward the performance of our employees. Simply put, success is not just about what you achieve, but about how you achieve it.

Dynamic working gives everyone at Barclays the opportunity to integrate professional and personal lives, if you have a need for flexibility then please discuss this with the hiring manager.

Barclays is an equal opportunity employer and are opposed to discrimination on any grounds.For more detailed information, please visit our dedicated Diversity and Inclusion site here .