About Us

At CIPFA, we're driven by a singular purpose: to transform lives through exceptional public financial management. As a leading international accountancy body, we champion integrity, transparency, and efficiency in the use of public funds. We believe that every pound spent should deliver tangible improvements to public services, creating a better future for individuals and communities worldwide. Join us in shaping a world where public money truly makes a difference.

About the Role

You will play a pivotal role in supporting managers and senior leaders across CIPFA by embedding people policies, promoting best practices, and aligning HR initiatives with business goals. Specifically:

• Building strong, credible working relationships with managers across CIPFA to embed people policies and procedures as well as CIPFA values and behaviours. Utilising policy, procedures, best practice and data to develop and innovate our ways of working.
• Ensuring an excellent and engaging employee experience by overseeing the smooth administration of all stages of the employee lifecycle accurately and timely.
• Work alongside People and Culture colleagues to ensure our people policies are fit for purpose and support our long term people ambitions.
• Working closely with People and Culture colleagues, develop modern people management practices through coaching, mentoring, systems, data and training

About You

You will be an experienced, generalist HR professional with:

• CIPD qualified or working towards Level 7 (or equivalent).
• Strong background in advising on HR policy and best practice.
• Proven experience in job design, recruitment, employee relations, and organisational change.
• Strong analytical skills with experience using HR information systems and recruitment databases to extract and analyse data.
• Track record of delivering projects and priorities within deadlines.
• Solid understanding of UK employment law and HR best practices.

This is a true generalist role which would suit an individual with a background in SMEs or membership organisations. 

This role can be based in either our Chester or London office. Please indicate your preferred location when applying.

What you will get in return

In exchange for helping us to make a difference, you will get a host of lovely employee benefits including:

• Competitive salary
• Great work life balance through participation in our 4-day working week pilot (work 4 days, get paid for 5)
• Hybrid working
• Generous pension scheme
• Health benefits like access to an Employee Assistance Helpline
• Family friendly benefits like help with childcare fees, and more!

As well as this you will be working as part of a small, close knit team with the opportunity to truly influence how we work at CIPFA and the opportunity to develop your skills through exciting HR projects.

We know that not all people come from the same background, or think the same – so why should we? At CIPFA, we want to be a great place to work where a diverse bunch of people from all backgrounds can turn up and thrive. When we hire, we want you to feel empowered to bring your best self to work.

Please let us know if you need any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.