People Partner - Audit Service Line

Gravita Business Services Ltd.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - GBP 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading accounting firm in Greater London is seeking a People Partner for Audit to shape and deliver the people agenda. This role involves collaborating with Audit Leadership, managing performance cycles, developing career pathways, and driving engagement strategies. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in professional services, particularly in audit, and possess a data-driven mindset. The position offers a hybrid working model, supporting a balance of flexibility and productivity.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Extensive development support

Collaborative work environment

Qualifications

• Strong track record of delivering strategy and measurable outcomes.
• Familiarity with audit regulation and compliance.
• Comfortable coaching senior leaders and influencing decisions.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Audit Leadership to set priorities and design solutions.
• Drive a high performance culture focusing on development and feedback.
• Manage the annual performance and reward cycle for the service line.
• Lead talent discussions and succession planning.
• Provide support for complex employee relations cases.
• Drive change and transformation initiatives.

Skills

Strategic People Partner

Audit stakeholder experience

Data-driven mindset

Influencing skills

Project leadership

Collaboration

Autonomy

Ability to manage multiple priorities

Job description

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 Audit, you will help shape and deliver the people agenda for our Audit Service Line, acting as a trusted partner to leadership and using insight and data to guide decisions. 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 Audit 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, driving a high performance culture.
• 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
• Talent & retention: Lead talent discussions with senior leaders, including succession planning and retention mapping, and turn insights into actions with measurable impact, reducing organisational risk.
• Engagement: Diagnose themes and create tailored engagement plans that address root causes and raise the bar on team experience.
• Employee relations: Provide hands on support and guidance to managers in managing complex cases
• Compliance: Work closely with Audit leadership and Compliance so people practices support regulatory requirements and audit quality.
• 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

• Experienced strategic People Partner with a strong track record of delivering strategy and measurable outcomes.
• Audit stakeholder experience and familiarity with audit regulation/compliance (professional services background strongly preferred)
• Data‑driven, future‑focused mindset, able to turn insight into action, iterate quickly and scale what works.
• Credible influencer and challenger. Comfortable coaching senior leaders, landing tough messages and holding the line on standards.
• Project leadership; confident in leading cross‑functional programmes from design through to adoption.
• Collaborator: Brings others along on the journey, seeks insight from peers and stakeholders to build the best solutions for the business
• Autonomous Acts independently, whilst joining the dots to keep things efficient
• Able to operate at pace and balance a number of priorities in a fast moving environment

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 Nitty Gritty

• 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).