HR Business Partner

About the role

The Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP) for the Private Bank serves as a strategic advisor to the Private Bank senior leadership team, shaping and executing people strategies that directly enable business performance, colleague experience, growth, and client outcomes. This role combines commercial acumen, HR expertise, and data-driven decision-making to influence key talent, organizational, and reward decisions in a highly competitive and regulated environment.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Business Partnership
• Act as a trusted advisor to Private Bank leadership, translating business strategy into integrated people and workforce plans.
• Influence senior stakeholders through data, market insights, and forward-looking workforce strategies.
• Anticipate business challenges and recommend pragmatic, high-impact HR solutions.
• Enterprise Leadership
• Lead a cross-functional team of HR COE partners, creating alignment to enterprise HR priorities, and the business strategy.
• Develop a People Plan for the Private Bank, in partnership with cross-functional team.
• Set priorities, create buy-in and clarity of vision, and foster a sense of teamwork and belonging within the HR team.
• Reward & Incentive Strategy (Core Focus)
• Partner with business leadership, reward partners, incentive team, and finance on the design, implementation, and governance of compensation and incentive programs.
• Partner with business leaders and Compensation COE to optimize pay structures and incentive plans.
• Leverage analytics and market data to inform reward decisions.
• Ensure reward frameworks drive performance differentiation, retention, and alignment to strategic priorities.
• Organizational Design & Workforce Planning
• Lead organizational design including structure, spans/layers, and workforce forecasting.
• Align organizational structures to business strategy and growth needs.
• Develop talent management and succession strategies.
• Change Management & Transformation
• Drive large-scale transformation initiatives.
• Coach leaders to lead through change and uncertainty.
• Apply structured change management approaches.
• Talent & Leadership Strategy
• Lead performance management, succession planning, and leadership development initiatives.
• Strengthen leadership capability through targeted development strategies.
• Champion culture, engagement, and belonging.
• Data-Driven Decision Making; Utilize workforce analytics and HR metrics. Provide actionable insights to drive engagement and retention.
• HR Governance & Risk Management
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Partner across HR functions to deliver integrated solutions.

Qualifications & Experience

• 10+ years of HR experience with HRBP experience.
• Expertise in reward/incentive design, org design, and change management.
• Financial services experience preferred, with focus on Private Banking and/or Wealth Management.