People Partner – 12 month FTC

We’re Gravita: the accountants fuelling ambitious businesses. We’re a full service, tech-enabled firm, working with entrepreneurs and businesses to help them achieve their goals, and make an impact in the world.

We’re growing fast and are bringing like-minded advisors together to form a full-service tech-enabled accounting partner for thousands of SMEs. Our team use their incredible expertise alongside intuitive technology to help businesses and entrepreneurs plan better and grow faster.

Our mission is to become the UK’s leading tech-enabled accounting firm for SMEs. We have ambitious goals and our high-calibre team work hard to achieve them. We are one team with one agenda, working collaboratively in a respectful environment to deliver a great service to our clients. So if you join us, you’ll not only be working on exciting client challenges, you’ll also be helping us shape the future of accounting.

The Role

As People Partner for Tax, you will help shape and deliver the people agenda for our Tax Service Line across 4 sites, with ambitious organic and inorganic growth plans. This is a high-impact role where you’ll have the opportunity to influence senior stakeholders, lead meaningful people initiatives and help shape the future of a fast-growing professional services business. You will help build capability, strengthen culture and support growth in a fast moving, private equity backed environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Service line People Plan: Partner with Tax Leadership to set priorities, design solutions and deliver outcomes end‑to‑end, aligned to our organisational people strategy.
• Performance development: Embed a modern, growth‑oriented approach to performance, focusing on development, feedback and quality conversations..
• Career pathways: Collaborate with the business and Talent and Learning team to develop and embed career pathways aligned to our behavioural framework to support our people in their career progression at Gravita
• People Calendar: Manage the annual performance, promotion and reward cycle for the service line, managing spend to budget and ensuring high standards are maintained
• Manager & leadership capability: Build capability through coaching and targeted interventions, working with the wider People team to inform the learning offering
• Talent & retention: Lead talent discussions with senior leaders, including succession planning and retention mapping; holds accountability for attrition data and action planning; builds out hiring plans, working with the Talent Acquisition team to enable growth.
• Engagement: Diagnose themes and create tailored engagement plans that address root causes and create an environment where people can do their best work.
• Employee relations: Provide guidance, support and business context to the Employee Relations function in handling case load; where needed manage complex or escalated cases directly.
• Compliance: Work closely with Tax leadership and Compliance so people practices support regulatory requirements.
• People projects: Lead people initiatives that shape the wider organisation. As part of a fast growing organisation, you have the opportunity to be involved in shaping our broader strategy.
• Change leadership: Drive and support change and transformation initiatives, including supporting M&A integration activity
  
  

Qualifications, Knowledge & Experience

• You’re an experienced strategic People Partner with a strong track record of delivering people strategy and measurable outcomes.
• You have experience partnering with senior stakeholders and understand the importance of regulation, compliance and quality in a professional services environment.
• You’re data-driven and future-focused, with the ability to turn insight into action, test and iterate quickly, andscale what works.
• You’re a credible influencer and challenger, comfortable coaching senior leaders, landing difficult messages and holding the line on standards.
• You can lead cross-functional programmes from design through to adoption, bringing structure, pace and clarity.
• You’re highly collaborative, involving peers and stakeholders to build practical solutions that work for the business.
• You’re comfortable operating autonomously, using sound judgement while joining the dots across priorities.
• You thrive in a fast-moving environment and can balance multiple priorities while keeping focused on outcomes.
  
  

Your Career with Gravita

When you join Gravita, we’ll support you on your own growth journey. We want to be the place you learn, grow and unlock your true potential.

We’ll work with you to build a progression plan to outline how you’ll grow at our company and everything we’ll do to help you get there. We’re also passionate about learning and development, to help you focus on your future.

The Key Details

• Our standard working week is a 37.5-hour week on a hybrid basis
• Core working hours are 10am - 4pm Monday to Friday
• Flexible working and happy employees are at the top of our list here at Gravita and we have been working hard to support our teams through the fast-paced changes.
• Your development won’t be forgotten, our development support is extraordinary for a firm of our size.
• It's a busy, fast-paced environment here at Gravita. Feel free to check out our social media channels (Instagram, X, LinkedIn and Glassdoor).