Senior HR Business Partner

Job Description

Senior HR Business Partner | LGT Private Banking

The Tone:
LGT Wealth Management was built from the ground up to bring global best practice in building institutional quality investment portfolios to Australian clients. This full-time role, based in Melbourne, Victoria, is instrumental in delivering the people strategy and providing trusted, commercially focused HR advice. The Senior HR Business Partner plays a critical part in building organizational capability and managing people-related risks for LGT Wealth Management, which operates with an authentic, client-first commitment and an entrepreneurial spirit.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Team: Reports to the Chief People Officer (CPO), leads an HR Business Partner, and manages the Talent Acquisition RPO team.
• Mission: To partner with business leaders to deliver the people strategy and provide trusted, commercially focused HR advice, building organizational capability and managing people-related risk.
• Tech Stack: Workday, LinkedIn, SEEK, LGT Job Market

What You’ll Actually Do
• Business Partnering: Act as a trusted strategic adviser, providing commercially focused HR advice and translating the firm’s 2030 Strategy into people priorities, particularly for culture and leadership capability.
• Talent Acquisition & Onboarding: Lead the RPO relationship and oversee the Talent Acquisition team to deliver best-practice hiring outcomes, strengthening sourcing channels and ensuring operational excellence.
• Remuneration & Benefits: Build understanding of LGT WM’s remuneration framework, support managers with remuneration decisions, and lead the annual remuneration review process.
• Risk Management & WHS: Lead the WHS framework, including physical and psychosocial risk, workplace behavior, emergency management, and governance, preparing relevant reporting for committees.
• Employee Engagement & Data: Lead the employee engagement process, including survey delivery and action planning, and develop HR dashboards and reporting that inform decision-making.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, Psychology, or a related discipline, with a senior career level demonstrating broad exposure across people and culture disciplines.
• Experience: Minimum 10 years in Human Resources, including demonstrated ability to manage complex and sensitive employee, leadership, and organizational matters with professionalism and sound judgment.
• Skills: Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills with a pragmatic, solutions-focused approach, persuasive communication skills, and the highest integrity and ethics.
• Bonus: Accreditation in Insights Discovery, Hogan, IECL, or similar assessment and coaching methodologies.