HR Manager

Role: HR Manager

Location: Central London

Sector: Financial Services & Banking

Salary: £80,000 - £90,000 (depending on experience, up to £100,000 for outstanding candidate)

Hybrid working: 1 day working from home per week

The Organisation

Goodman Masson are thrilled to be exclusively partnering with this is a well-established, major Singapore-based multinational banking group and one of the largest banks in Southeast Asia. It provides a wide range of services including retail banking, corporate and institutional banking, wealth management, and asset management. It operates more than 500 offices across around 19 countries and territories, with this role being located in their central London Office

The Role - Human Resources Manager

This this will be a standalone role with no line management responsibilities, you will play a pivotal role in managing all HR functions, working closely with department heads to drive employee engagement, support business partnering, and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements. While the role will be predominantly HR-focused (90%), you will also provide occasional admin support to the CEO such as staff expenses administration.

Senior HR candidates who have experience in a standalone HR position at smaller sized branches in financial services will be especially suitable, as this position will require the successful candidate to make themselves available for occasional administrative support.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee payroll submission, pensions, benefits, and life assurance scheme administration
• Ensure compliance with SMCR, the Remuneration Code, and other HR-related regulatory requirements
• Manage HR policies, succession planning, and the recruitment process
• Conduct employee screening and maintain training records
• Drive employee engagement initiatives and follow up on engagement survey results
• Organise employee events, including team-building activities and charity fundraisers
• Maintain and update employee data in Workday
• Handle onboarding and offboarding processes
• Administer employee expenses
• Ensure compliance with health and safety procedures
• Manage employee relations

Essential Candidate Criteria:

• A proven HR generalist track record in financial services
• Employee relations
• Business partnering
• Recruitment
• Employee engagement
• Strong background in financial services with experience in SMCR compliance
• Ability to work independently in a standalone HR role while collaborating with department heads
• Experience in payroll submission, staff expenses and benefits administration is essential
• CIPD qualification is beneficial but not essential
• Proficiency in Workday HRIS is a plus

The organisation is looking for the successful candidate to start ASAP but are happy to wait for a notice period to be served for the right candidate.

If you're interested, please send your CV highlighting the relevant experience in bullet points under each of your previous roles (not just in your profile summary).

Please then email your updated CV to as soon as possible to maximise your chance of being shortlisted for interview.