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Head of HR

  • Type: Permanent
  • Location: UK, London 3 days / 2 days remote
  • Reference: 35739

Our client is a privately owned, founder-led financial services business headquartered in London seeking to hire a HR leader to join their Senior Management Team. Having scaled to over 100 employees through organic growth and strategic acquisition — with significant further growth targeted — the business has reached an inflection point where people infrastructure, leadership capability, and organisational culture have become defining strategic priorities. The environment is entrepreneurial, commercially focused, and flat in structure, with a young and ambitious workforce and a leadership team deeply invested in building something of lasting quality.

Reporting directly to the Managing Director, this is a standalone senior generalist role with genuine strategic influence. This role offers the full HR Generalist agenda with priorities that include; reviewing HR policy and process infrastructure, increasing organisational capability and leadership development, embedding competency frameworks and performance management culture, and continuous review of compensation and benefits. The successful candidate will be both architect and builder — moving fluidly between shaping strategy and executing it, with full ownership of outcomes.

The ideal candidate will be a seasoned HR generalist from professional services, financial services, management consultancy or similar, with a track record across the full spectrum of HR — from Board-level advisory to hands-on policy, process, and people management. Resilience, credibility, and confidence navigating complex stakeholder relationships, including entrepreneurial founders, are essential. Experience in a regulated or acquisitive, scaling environment would be a distinct advantage. For an HR professional who combines strategic capability with a practical, delivery-focused mindset and thrives on genuine ownership, this is an exceptional opportunity.

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Debbie worked with me on the search for a Group HR Director. From the initial briefing to the final candidate interviews the process was clear, structured, quick and highly professional. One of Debbie's key strengths is to really understand the needs of her customers. And this came through in the strength of the short list of candidates she delivered. Overall a great customer experience and hence I can only recommend Varna HR Resourcing unreservedly.

Klaus Goeldenbot, Group Chief Executive Officer