HR Business Partner (12-month FTC: Maternity Cover)

We are seeking an experienced HR Business Partner to join our London team on a 12-month fixed-term contract. Partnering with senior leaders across the business, you will provide strategic and operational HR support within a fast-paced investment management environment.

This is a broad, hands-on role covering organisational effectiveness, talent, recruitment, employee relations and performance. You will play a key role in enabling high performance, supporting growth, and shaping culture across the firm.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with senior leaders to deliver people strategies aligned to business objectives
• Lead workforce planning and oversee recruitment activity for designated areas
• Drive talent and succession planning, identifying capability gaps and retention risks
• Advise on organisational design, change initiatives and leadership effectiveness
• Manage complex employee relations matters with sound commercial judgement
• Support performance and compensation cycles in partnership with Reward
• Use people data and engagement insights to inform decision-making and drive action

Requirements

Proven HR Business Partner experience within Financial Services (investment management preferred)

Strong knowledge of UK employment law and FCA/SMCR requirements

Demonstrated ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders

'Hands on' experience leading recruitment campaigns and workforce planning

Strong commercial acumen and ability to translate data into insight

Confident managing complex ER cases

Experience partnering with European teams or working within a mid-sized, high-performance organisation is advantageous.

Visit website

Hayfin was founded in 2009 with the ambition of creating one of Europe’s leading investment platforms. We focus on delivering best-in-class risk-adjusted returns for our investors across our strategies: Direct Lending, Special Opportunities and High-Yield Credit.We consider ourselves value investors, generating differentiated return through hard work, insightful analysis and disciplined investing.Hayfin seeks to recruit and retain exceptionally talented professionals. We believe in being local in each of our markets, and that our diverse mix of nationalities, cultures and languages makes us more connected to these markets.

Most of our team are industry generalists, with our edge lying in our origination networks and proven expertise in managing complex restructurings, workouts and liquidations. That said, we employ dedicated, specialist teams in the areas of healthcare (life sciences), shipping (maritime) and real estate, where we believe our focused expertise provides an advantage.

We operate across all major European geographies with headquarters in London, and ten offices globally including in Frankfurt, Madrid, Milan, Paris, Singapore and New York.