People Business Partner

End Date: November 19, 2026

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Partner with the Zone CFO and Finance Leadership Team to define and execute the People strategy aligned to the Zone Finance priorities, operating model and transformation roadmap.
• Provide forward-looking people insights using workforce, talent, engagement, productivity and cost data to identify organisational risks, capability gaps and opportunities, and translate these into clear leadership actions.
• Manage the functional ZBB People pack to ensure alignment to budget, productivity opportunities and LE forecasting.
• Shape organisation design, role clarity, governance and ways of working across Finance, including interfaces with the BSC, and global shared services.
• Build a strong leadership and talent pipeline for critical Finance roles through succession planning, talent reviews, career architecture, differentiated development and targeted retention actions.
• Lead strategic workforce planning and organisation design by connecting business strategy, skills demand, productivity, span of control, layers and leadership proportion metrics.
• Accelerate Finance capability building.
• Coach and challenge senior Finance leaders on leadership effectiveness, team performance, inclusion, culture and change, ensuring people decisions support both performance and long-term organisational health.
• Act as the People lead for Finance transformation and change programmes, building stakeholder alignment, change readiness, communication, adoption and benefit sustainability.
• Partner with COEs and People Shared Services teams to land One Way of People to deliver integrated, scalable solutions while simplifying transactional work and continuously improving the Finance employee and leader experience.
• Ensure sound employee relations, policy governance and risk management.

• Strategic and commercial acumen, with the ability to understand Finance value drivers, operating metrics, risk and cost trade-offs and convert them into a focused people agenda.
• Credibility and executive presence to influence the Zone CFO, Finance Leadership Team and senior stakeholders through insight, constructive challenge and pragmatic recommendations.
• Strong organisation design, workforce planning and change leadership capability, with experience translating strategy into structures, accountabilities, capabilities and routines.
• Analytical and diagnostic strength, including the ability to integrate multiple data sources, identify root causes and implement action plans
• Demonstrated talent leadership across succession, critical-role pipelines, leadership development, performance, careers, rewards and retention.
• High judgement, discretion when dealing with confidential, complex or high-risk people matters.
• Collaborative, customer-focused and outcomes-oriented, with a track record of connecting specialist expertise into coherent business solutions.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.

• Relevant HR, Business, or related degree; postgraduate qualification is advantageous.
• Significant People Business Partnering experience supporting senior leadership teams in a complex, matrixed organisation; Finance or professional-services exposure is advantageous.
• Demonstrated experience in organisation design, strategic workforce planning, talent and succession, change leadership and people analytics.
• Strong stakeholder management, coaching, communication and influencing capability.
• High level of business acumen, analytical rigour, accuracy and delivery discipline.