Human Resources Director – Business Partnering

Position description 

This role is responsible for designing, delivering and embedding people strategies, frameworks and HR activities working in partnership with senior leaders to support business and people objectives.

A key to the role will be working collaboratively as a member of HR & leadership teams, whilst delivering HR Business Partnering services. It has accountability for driving relevant people strategies, initiatives and projects that enhance the culture and employee experience.

This role successfully partners with Executives, senior leaders and their respective teams to ensure they understand current and emerging business challenges and opportunities. It provides consulting expertise across a range of HR matters and delivers a broad range of HR operational services to support the achievement of business priorities and people plans.

Your new role

Location: Sydney
Role Type: Full-time, Permanent

HR and business planning

• Develop a strong understanding of the business direction and challenges, providing advice and counsel to people leaders on people-related matters and implementing strategies aligned with the direction set by the Executive team and Board.
• In collaboration with the Executive and fellow HR colleagues, design and deliver people plans that meet specific Business Unit requirements and align to a progressive people approach that enables the business to achieve results.
• Deliver HR programs and initiatives to drive commercial growth and embed a purpose-led culture, with a focus on performance management, talent management, succession planning and engagement action plans.
• Use a sound change management approach to implement and embed companywide HR strategies, plans and initiatives as part of the overall HR Plan.
• Design operating models, that support business priorities. Managing and implementing organisational designs and strategic workforce plans.
• Support leaders in actively managing any employee relations matter.

Operational support

• Partner with the leaders and provide expert advice and coaching in areas such as performance management, employee relations and general people issues as they arise.
• Implement talent, performance and reward strategy, including accountability for driving Business unit annual talent, performance and remuneration review processes.
• Support business leaders with key role recruitment, including active involvement in interviews and selection.
• Manage the implementation of all core/cyclical HR programs and provide feedback to teams to enhance relevance and effectiveness.

Financial

• Drive the delivery of programs and HR initiatives in line with agreed outcomes and budgets.
• Manage and ensure effective compliance and risk management for HR activities.

Culture and performance

• Develop and foster a culture that attracts and retains strong personal and professional skills required to support a complex and challenging business with multiple stakeholders.
• Drive and maintain effective working relationships with other parts of the business to achieve shared corporate objectives and to maintain a holistic view of people opportunities and risks.
  

Risk

• Manage and address people operational and reputational risks.

About you

Qualifications and experience

• Tertiary qualifications in business, HR or related field.
• Previous track record in HR Partnering at an Executive level across various Business Units.
• Commercially minded and pragmatic approach to driving people outcomes, with experience in predominately Business Partnering, with previous accountability for other HR disciplines.
• Experience in designing organisational structures and workforce plans, with relevant change plans, that lift organisational effectiveness and capability.
• Ability to lead interviews across all levels with experience in competency-based interview styles
• Previous accountability for managing end to end a range of employee relations cases.
• Experience in the financial services sector is highly desirable.
• Australian citizenship and eligibility to obtain a relevant Australian security clearance 

Skills and attributes

• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to align HR initiatives with business outcomes.
• Organisational design skills, managing from design through to consultation and through to change implementation.
• A true hands-on approach as well as the ability to successfully monitor the "pulse" of the employees to ensure a high level of employee engagement
• Strong stakeholder management capability, with the ability to influence and manage relationships at all levels of the organisation and with external vendors.
• Diplomatic with strong problem-solving skills and business acumen. Ability to develop rapport and become a trusted advisor to the business.
• Proven ability to lead, coach and develop leaders.
• Strong analytical, communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.  
• High integrity, resilience, openness and transparency.
• Ability to manage multiple competing demands, prioritise work, and meet demanding deadlines with minimal supervision whilst not losing sight of overall strategic objectives.
• Strong stakeholder management capability, with the ability to influence and manage relationships at all levels of the organisation and with external vendors.
• Digitally literate, with experience in utilising HR technology platforms.
• Strong writing and the ability to develop internal communications and prepare a variety of documents including Executive briefing papers and Board documents.
• Hands-on and pragmatic, with a willingness to work as part of a small team to get the job done.
• Attention to detail and demonstrated a high level of competence with the MS Office suite of programs.

Even if you haven’t ticked every box but this role resonates with you, don't rule yourself out just yet, we'd love to hear from you!

Our benefits and culture

We are small enough to have an impact, BIG enough to make a world of difference and it starts with our people.

We support flexible working and pride ourselves in fostering a culturally diverse, honest, collaborative and supportive team environment. We are proud to be certified as a 2024 Great Place to Work for the fourth year (including 2023, 2022 and 2020), recognised on the 2023 AFR BOSS Best Places to Work list, as one of Australia’s Best Workplaces for Women 2022, and the Australian HR Awards 2021 Employer of Choice (NFP & Public Sector).

In line with our commitment to our people, we have a comprehensive array of benefits available to our employees:

• Generous leave provisions (e.g. Annual Wellbeing day) and leave purchase opportunities
• 14 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers
• Thorough induction onboarding program
• Health and Wellbeing initiatives
• Gender affirmation leave
• Income Protection Insurance
• Community volunteering and donation matching programs
• and many more!

Our headquarters is based in Sydney CBD, and we have a national presence across Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide.

Eligibility

Australian Citizenship - To be eligible to apply for this position, applicants must hold Australian Citizenship at the time of application.

Security Clearance - To be eligible to apply for this position, applicants must be able to obtain and maintain a Baseline security clearance.

How to apply

Applications close: 26 January 2025.  

Interviews will occur in parallel, so please apply ASAP.
Enquiries: Careers@exportfinance.gov.au     
  
To apply, please email your CV to Careers@exportfinance.gov.au      

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We invite and welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from diverse cultural backgrounds, people with disability and members of the LGBTQIA+ community. 

If you are a candidate with a disability, let us know how we can provide you with additional support.

About us

Export Finance Australia is Australia’s export credit agency.  

We provide finance to support Australian export trade and overseas infrastructure development across the Pacific and Indo-Pacific. Through our loans, bonds and guarantees, we support businesses – from small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to large corporates – foreign governments and infrastructure projects, to take on the world. 

Working with banks, other government agencies and our partners, together we are helping drive international success for Australian businesses.

The reason our people join us, stay with us and grow with us is because they wholeheartedly believe in our purpose. They can see the impact we create for our customers.

For more information about us, please refer to our website here. 

Applications from recruitment agencies will not be considered on this occasion.