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Posted 18 June, 2026

Senior HRBP

Capability HR
Sydney, NSW, Australia Full Time
Reference: 421_629867_5WYX3XYR

  • National Role - Leading the Business Partnering Team
  • Drive consistency across all cyclical people processes
  • Influential Role supporting the Head of People & Culture

Lead a modern, evolving Business Partnering team in a national firm undergoing significant transformation, with scope to influence governance, consistency and operational uplift.

A newly created senior People & Culture role offering operational leadership across a national P&C function. Working closely with the Head of People & Culture, you will act as a trusted 2IC in a role that drives consistency in HR advice and cyclical activity.

The firm operates a modern, corporatestyle structure with a CEO, COO and executive leadership model, creating a more balanced and commercially grounded decisionmaking environment than traditional partnerled firms. The P&C function is also undergoing a significant uplift in sophistication, giving this role a genuine opportunity to shape improved processes, governance and ways of working.

You will lead and coach a small team, oversee firstline advisory work nationally, and manage a modest personal client portfolio to stay connected to the rhythm of the business. The role has a strong operational focus, ensuring highquality advice, disciplined governance and alignment across all offices.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop a small team of Advisors and a Business Partner
  • Oversee firstline advisory work nationally, ensuring consistent and highquality advice
  • Coordinate and govern key people cycles including graduate onboarding, planning sessions, promotions and remuneration processes
  • Drive national consistency across five offices, working closely with the Employee Relations and Policy teams
  • Contribute to HRIS implementation, change management and reporting improvements
  • Support strategic and transformation initiatives, including future business acquisitions
  • Maintain a modest personal client portfolio to stay connected to daytoday operational needs

Success in this role requires:

  • Strong legalsector experience and understanding of CPD, the Legal Services Award and the nuances of legal practice
  • Proven people leadership, ideally managing Advisors and Business Partners
  • Confidence with complex ER matters and firstline advisory oversight
  • Experience operating nationally across multiple offices
  • Ability to drive consistency, coach a dispersed team and operate at pace
  • Comfort working in a function still on a maturity journey

It is a prerequisite that candidates have prior experience working within a Professional Services environment, although this does not necessarily need to be their current setting.

Candidates currently operating at a Senior HR Business Partner / Lead HR Business Partner level, or HR Managers from smaller Professional Services firms with the capability to scale, are encouraged to apply.

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