People Experience Business Partner

Xero is a beautiful, easy-to-use platform that helps small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping advisors grow and thrive.

At Xero, our purpose is to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world. This purpose sits at the centre of everything we do. We support our people to do the best work of their lives so that they can help small businesses succeed through better tools, information and connections. Because when they succeed they make a difference, and when millions of small businesses are making a difference, the world is a more beautiful place.

**How you’ll make an impact**

As a People Experience (PX) Business Partner you will work in a true partnership model, creating and driving strategic people initiatives for a global/business portfolio in Xero and being the primary support to relevant senior leaders and leadership teams. You will work with your PX colleagues across all our regions and centres of excellence teams, to drive the success of our PX OKRs and strategic people programs. You will do this by ensuring consistent and impactful people programs are rolled out effectively, aligned to the global people strategy.

This role will also incorporate a broad spectrum of HR advisory responsibility, including advice and support to senior leaders on all people matters.

**What you’ll do**
- Provide coaching and generalist PX support to senior leaders across a global portfolio with a strong focus towards people capability, leadership and organisational design
- Communicate our people strategy and position on issues with credibility and influence
- Participate in team planning sessions across your portfolio to be the voice of People Experience and to provide advice on how the people strategy aligns with business strategy
- Play a pivotal role in managing and resolving complex employee issues
- Provide meaningful and accurate HR advice and guidance across the full spectrum of HR; including strategic alignment, legislative requirements, recruitment, on-boarding, performance management, organisational design, employee development, change management, remuneration, HR systems, benefits, retention and departures.
- Play a role in driving forward key people programs & initiatives such as succession planning, career development, performance management and recruiting strategies; ensuring the portfolio leadership teams have visibility and understanding; embedding new programs within teams; working with PX CoEs to iterate & improve on programs & initiatives
- In collaboration with senior stakeholders, analyse trends and metrics to develop and execute on a strategic people plan for your portfolios
- In partnership with the Talent & Finance teams along with senior leaders, contribute to workforce planning efforts to ensure your portfolio has the needed skills & experience to deliver; ensure recruitment priorities are met In partnership with the OD team, develop programmes that support the ongoing professional development of your stakeholder group
- Provide remuneration advice and guidance, guiding the Annual Salary Review process for your portfolio
- Identify and take action on coaching opportunities, sharing uncomfortable information in a clear and helpful manner when required, engaging in challenging conversations with stakeholders and team members
- Support and coach PX Advisors as they provide support within your portfolio on a particular case or initiative and when other opportunities arise (ie they seek mentoring from BP)
- Collaborate with the PX leadership team as required on PXP initiatives and participate in global PX projects and working groups, as needed
- Build a positive employee experience that leads to improved business performance and increased levels of customer engagement
- Strive to work across the function to test, experiment and improve how we work inline with our scaling and evolution

**Success looks like**
- You are viewed as a Trusted Advisor among the portfolio leadership team you sit on.
- The reputation of the People function at Xero is well regarded through the provision of high quality, timely, credible and accurate HR advice
- Strategic people plan is developed in line with PX OKRs and company strategy, and is executed with progress made against key measures
- Top talent is retained through programmes and initiatives coordinated and managed by the people team
- Xero meets employment legislative compliance requirements at all times
- Organisational Design is robust and consistent with Xero Global structure
- Effective working relationships with the Global People Experience team
- People are treated with dignity and respect at all times

**What you’ll bring with you**

**Critical capabilities**
- Business insight - Understands industry trends and developments, discusses and helps embed potential implications of any changes with our teams and Xero.
- Collaborates - Ensures that stakeholders remain well informed and are acros