Senior People Business Partner
FNZ is a global wealth management platform provider.
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About FNZ
FNZ describes itself as 'wealth's growth platform', providing a global, end-to-end wealth management platform that integrates modern technology, business operations, and investment operations within a regulated financial institution connected to a universe of investment products. The company serves banks, wealth managers, insurance companies, and asset managers, with over US$2.5 trillion in assets on platform and nearly 30 million end investors served through its clients. Its offerings span wealth management platforms, advisor tools and productivity solutions, asset management distribution, and trade and post-trade securities services, along with a data platform combining an Operational Data Store, Analytical Data Warehouse, and Aggregated Data Warehouse to power analytics, machine learning, and generative AI insights. FNZ has notable clients including Santander, Colonial First State (CFS), Vanguard, Aviva, and Swedbank, and in 2025 announced a global five-year strategic partnership with Microsoft to integrate Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft Fabric, GitHub Copilot, and Microsoft 365 Copilot across its platform and operations. FNZ is backed by major institutional shareholders including Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), CPP Investments, Generation Investment Management, and Motive Partners.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will provide strategic HR partnership and advice to senior leaders and managers across North America. You will lead employee-relations matters, workforce and talent planning, organisational design, change initiatives, HR operations, compliance, payroll governance, mobility, wellbeing, Workday HRIS governance, and cross-functional HR projects.
Requirements
- Progressive HR experience, including significant Senior HRBP or equivalent leadership experience
- Experience in complex, fast-paced, and matrixed organisations
- Employee-relations expertise
- Experience partnering with senior leaders and business heads
- Experience leading HR initiatives across talent, engagement, performance, and organisational change
- Knowledge of Canadian and US employment law
- Experience managing ambiguity, transformation, and change
- Consulting, facilitation, and coaching skills
- Ability to manage competing priorities
- Written and verbal communication skills
- Regional or global HR agenda experience is strongly preferred
Responsibilities
- Advise senior leaders and business heads on people decisions, insights, and risks
- Own the people agenda for assigned business areas
- Lead complex and high-risk employee-relations matters
- Coach and challenge leaders to build effective and inclusive teams
- Partner on organisational design, workforce planning, succession planning, and talent strategies
- Drive people-related change initiatives
- Use people data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities
- Provide functional leadership for HR operations in North America
- Ensure compliance with Canadian and US employment legislation
- Lead external stakeholder relationships
- Lead HR audit, compliance, and due-diligence activities
- Oversee payroll governance
- Provide strategic oversight of mobility activities
- Champion health, safety, and wellbeing initiatives
- Lead Workday HRIS optimisation, adoption, and governance
- Lead cross-functional HR projects
- Translate global HR frameworks into locally effective solutions
- Provide strategic input into policy design and review
