The purpose of the role is to lead and deliver a highly visible, strategic, and commercially focused HR partnership in North America, acting as a trusted advisor to senior leaders and managers. The role will provide expert guidance and decision support across the full spectrum of HR generalist activities including employee relations, employment legislation, workforce planning, talent strategy, organisational design, change management, reward, performance, and culture. This role will play a critical leadership position within the NAM HR team, with accountability for driving people strategy, managing risk, and enabling business performance, while aligning closely with the Global HR function and supporting the wider North American region.

Strategic & Commercial Business Partner Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders and business heads, influencing decisions through strong commercial judgement, people insights, and risk awareness. Own the people agenda for assigned business areas, ensuring alignment with business strategy, growth plans, and transformation initiatives. Lead complex and high‑risk Employee Relations matters, providing pragmatic, legally compliant, and commercially sound recommendations.

Partner with leadership on organisational design, workforce planning, succession planning, and talent strategies to support medium‑and long‑term business objectives. Drive and sponsor people‑related change initiatives, including restructures, integrations, and business transformations. Use people data and insights to proactively identify trends, risks, and opportunities, and to influence decision‑making.

HR Leadership & Management Provide functional leadership for HR operations in North America, ensuring consistent,



high‑quality service delivery across the employee lifecycle. Act as the escalation point for complex ER cases, including disciplinary, grievance, performance management, redundancy, and exit management. Ensure full compliance with Canadian and US employment legislation, maintaining deep, up‑to‑date knowledge and proactively advising the business on legal risk and mitigation.

Lead relationships with external stakeholders, including labour authorities, legal advisors, auditors, and regulatory bodies. Own and lead HR audit, compliance, and due diligence activities, identifying gaps and driving sustainable corrective actions. Provide strategic oversight of mobility activities, advising on policy, cost, risk, and employee experience for domestic and international moves.

Lead the optimisation, adoption, and governance of Workday HRIS, acting as a subject‑matter expert and change leader. Leadership, Governance & Projects Lead cross‑functional HR projects such as engagement surveys, culture initiatives, leadership development programs, and policy harmonisation. Translate global HR frameworks into locally effective solutions, balancing consistency with local market realities.

Provide strategic input into policy design and review, ensuring relevance, fairness, and legal robustness.

Performance

Assessment – Senior Level Expectations In addition to the existing competencies,



the Senior HRBP is expected to demonstrate: Executive presence and credibility – Trusted by senior leaders; Risk management mindset – Proactively identifies people, legal, and reputational risks and drives mitigation. Systems thinking – Understands the downstream impact of HR decisions on business performance and employee experience. Progressive HR experience, with significant time spent in a Senior HRBP or equivalent leadership role.

Demonstrated expertise in Employee Relations, including handling high‑risk, sensitive, and complex cases independently. Robust experience partnering with senior leaders and business heads, influencing outcomes at a strategic level. Track record of leading HR initiatives across talent, engagement, performance, and organisational change.

Deep working knowledge of Canadian and US employment law, with the ability to apply it pragmatically in commercial contexts.

Experience working through ambiguity, transformation, and change, with resilience and confidence. Strong consulting, facilitation, and coaching skills. Highly organised, proactive, and delivery‑focused, with the ability to manage competing priorities.

Experience supporting regional or global HR agendas is strongly preferred. We know the foundation to do that already exists in the wealth management industry, but complexity holds firms back. We created wealth’s growth platform to help. We provide a global, end‑to‑end wealth management platform that integrates modern technology with business and investment operations. We partner with the world’s leading financial institutions, with over US$2.5 trillion in assets on platform (AoP).

📌 Senior People Business Partner - North America (Toronto)
🏢 Socket.dev
📍 Toronto