Senior HR Business Partner | Audit & Assurance | Melbourne/Sydney

Job Requisition ID: 41497 

• Join a high-performing HR team partnering with the business to drive outcomes and support meaningful transformation
• Play a pivotal role in the success of your portfolios as a trusted Senior HR Business Partner
• Belong to a workplace that values diversity, equity and inclusion, and where different perspectives are welcomed

We’re looking for a future-focused, innovative and commercially minded Senior HR Business Partner (Senior Manager) to help shape and deliver our HR strategy, and elevate the employee experience across our Assurance Offerings. This is an exciting full-time opportunity to join a collaborative team and make a meaningful impact.

You’ll be passionate about driving business outcomes through people, with the insight to understand evolving business needs and the judgement to translate them into practical strategies that deliver results. You will provide strategic HR advice while ensuring operational excellence, service quality and strong delivery against our HR strategy. You’ll also lead and develop a team, working closely with business leaders to drive transformation and workforce strategy across Audit and Assurance — a core client-facing business focused on delivering trust, quality and confidence for our clients and markets.

What will your typical day look like?

Every day will bring opportunities to influence, advise and lead. As a trusted partner to the business, you’ll work directly with senior leaders to provide strategic HR advice, operational guidance and practical support across the full talent lifecycle. Your impact will span workforce planning, performance experience, reward and recognition, employee relations, leadership and learning, and diversity, equity and inclusion. You’ll also contribute to broader firmwide HR priorities and initiatives, helping to shape a consistent, high-quality people experience.

About the team

At Deloitte, we believe that people make the workplace. We play a meaningful role in developing talented people that form the very grassroots of our business by crafting learning experiences and formal development opportunities. Constantly seeking to build the “only at Deloitte” employee experience, we help our people reimagine and realise their potential today, tomorrow and beyond.   The Deloitte HR team are strategic, commercial and innovative HR specialists who work with our business to transform the experience of work. We play a meaningful role in recruiting and developing talented people that form the very grassroots of our business and its future. 

Enough about us, let’s talk about you.

You may have all or some of the following skills/experience:

• A strong and proven background in HR business partnering, with the ability to build trusted stakeholder relationships
• Strategic thinking capability, with confidence influencing senior and executive leaders
• Curiosity, innovative thinking and confidence using AI and technology to improve ways of working
• Experience designing and delivering innovative HR solutions in fast-paced environments
• Commercial acumen and a strong focus on driving practical business outcomes
• Confidence managing complex employee relations matters with sound judgement and impact
• A strong understanding of reward and remuneration principles, and how they inform business decisions
• A passion for coaching and developing leaders, with experience leading HR teams to deliver meaningful impact
• Strong analytical capability, including the ability to use Excel, data and technology to generate actionable insights

Why Deloitte?   

At Deloitte, we focus our energy on interesting and impactful work. We’re always learning, innovating and setting the standard; making a positive difference to our clients and our society. We put coaching at the heart of what we do, helping our people grow their careers in any direction – whether it be up, moving into something new, or even moving across the world.   

 We embrace diversity, equity and inclusion. We have a diverse collection of people from different backgrounds, with different experiences, gender identities, abilities and thinking styles. What binds us together is a shared commitment to value everyone’s perspective and to cultivate inclusion; so that our work environment is a safe space we can all belong.  

We value in-person connection with our clients and our colleagues. We offer several ways for you to work flexibly so that you can serve your clients, stay connected with your team, and manage your personal priorities.

 We help you live and work well. To support your personal and professional life, we offer a range of perks and benefits, including retail discounts, wellbeing leave, paid volunteering days, twelve flexible working options, market-leading parental leave and return to work support package.  

Next Steps  

Sound like the sort of role for you? Apply now, we’d love to hear from you!  

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By applying for this job, you’ll be assessed against the Deloitte Talent Standards. We’ve designed these standards so that you can grow in your career, and we can provide our clients with a consistent and exceptional Deloitte employee experience globally. The preferred candidate will be subject to background screening by Deloitte or by their external third-party provider.