People Director - High Growth Fintech Scale UP

Role: People Director Location: London Hybrid Working: 4 days in office Salary: From £130k I'm excited to be partnering with one of the UK'smost exciting high-growth fintech businesses to hire a People Director into their London team. They have scaled significantly over the last few years and is continuing to grow across Europe and EMEA, building out both its product offering and the organisation behind it. It's a very fast-paced, high-performance environment with ambitious plans for the next stage of growth. They're now looking for a commercial People Director to partner with their central functions, with a particular focus on Finance alongside Risk, Compliance and Legal. This is a senior IC role with significant exposure to the executive team. You'll work particularly closely with the CFO and Finance leadership, helping them think through what a best-in-class function needs to look like as the business continues to scale. What you'll be getting involved with:

• Partnering with senior leaders across Finance, Risk, Compliance and Legal on their people and organisational priorities
• Working closely with the CFO on the continued build-out and evolution of the Finance organisation
• Leading on org design, workforce planning and capability building across your client groups
• Bringing together people and commercial thinking, particularly around headcount, budgets, forecasting and where to invest next
• Using data and analytics to challenge thinking and drive better organisational decisions
• Identifying critical talent and capability gaps and helping leaders build high-performing teams
• Supporting leaders through organisational change and periods of significant growth
• Acting as a genuine thought partner to senior stakeholders, bringing challenge, judgement and a strong point of view rather than simply executing a people agenda A little bit about you:
• Experience operating at Senior People Partner / People Director level
• Coming from a high-growth, scaling environment: fintech would be ideal, but broader tech, SaaS or another fast-paced scaling business absolutely works
• Strong experience partnering Finance and/or Central Functions
• Comfortable working directly with CFO and exec-level stakeholders
• Strong across org design, workforce planning and organisational change
• Commercial and analytical: comfortable getting into headcount, budgets and data, not just the traditional people agenda
• Able to hold your own with senior leaders, challenge where needed and bring a clear point of view This is an opportunity for someone who loves being close to the business, enjoys the pace and complexity that comes with scaling, and wants to operate as a really senior, high-impact IC. We recognise how challenging this current job market is for candidates, and Hawkwood are therefore striving to provide the best candidate experience we can. If you are interested in this opportunity, we kindly request that you apply via this LinkedIn advert, as opposed to sending us an email or LinkedIn direct message. We are eager to ensure that each candidate application is considered fairly, and receives a consistent experience. Unfortunately, we cannot ensure this standard if you enquire about a role via email or LinkedIn message, as it falls outside of our established process.