About Northern Trust:
Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.
Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world’s most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.
The role:
Human Resources plays a critical role in supporting Northern Trust’s most important asset—its people. The function partners with the business to attract, develop, engage and retain talent while ensuring compliance with policies, practices and regulatory requirements. The HR Business Partner acts as a strategic liaison between business leadership, Senior HRBPs, HR Advisors and HR Centres of Expertise (Talent Acquisition, Total Rewards, Talent Management, HR Operations and Employee Relations). The role partners closely with leaders to ensure HR solutions are aligned to business needs and strategy. Reporting to the Global Senior HRBP, you will coach and advise senior managers on key HR priorities, including engagement, manager capability, and workforce initiatives aligned to broader people and business strategies.
This role is based in our Limerick office, operating under a hybrid working model.
Key responsibilities:
Plays a key role consulting with managers on talent assessment, succession planning, performance management, and compensation planning activities; proactively translates enterprise strategy into BU/region people plans.
Leads RIF activity for client group and helps managers implement change management support resulting from people impact; plays a key role in managing RIF activity overall for EMEA region (cross functionally).
Assesses the need for HR services with client groups as necessary and leads implementation.
Provides guidance and problem solving on escalated employee relations matters including dispute resolution, disciplinary actions, regulatory compliance, and litigation avoidance.
Ensures compliance on all HR related company guidelines and policies, as well as compliance with all regional, country, local, and company regulations and participates in ER activities when they arise due to non-compliance.
Attends relevant client team meetings to ensure HR actions support key business needs, providing updates on HR initiatives and programs.
Maintains a strong awareness of Talent Acquisition activities to help achieve a high quality, diverse talent pipeline.
Participates in functional and cross-functional initiatives across HR.
Serves as expert or go to person often handling complex, high profile, and sensitive work.
Solves complex problems
Takes a new perspective on existing solutions
Exercises judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information
Impacts a range of client, operational, project or service activities within own team and other related teams
Works within broad guidelines and policies
Skills and experience:
Significant experience (typically 10+ years) operating in a HR Business Partner or comparable role.
Strong consulting and advisory capability with proven experience coaching senior leaders.
Ability to analyse data, assess risk and apply sound judgment to inform and influence decision‑making.
Deep domain expertise across HR policy, practice and process, with a strong understanding of how HR disciplines integrate.
Highly collaborative relationship manager with foundational knowledge of workforce planning and organisational design.
Effective communicator with the ability to explain complex or sensitive information, build consensus and lead change initiatives.
Demonstrated ability to solve complex problems, apply best practices and act as a resource for less experienced colleagues.
Experience leading or contributing to small projects with manageable risk and resource requirements.
Strong awareness of the external market and competitive environment.
Working with Us:
As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.
Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.
We’d love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world’s most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater
Reasonable accommodation
Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at [email protected].
We hope you’re excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.
Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.
