The company:

Our client is a well-established multinational organisation with a significant Australian workforce and a complex operating environment.

They are undertaking a major uplift across their people, employment compliance and manager capability frameworks and are looking for an experienced HR professional to take the lead across several high-priority projects.

This is a role for someone who brings deep employee relations expertise, strong employment law knowledge and the confidence to navigate complex, sensitive and sometimes ambiguous people matters.

The role:

- Lead a significant employee relations and employment compliance portfolio, providing practical advice across complex ER matters, employment legislation, awards, classifications, contracts and employee risk.
- Review and strengthen the organisation's Australian HR compliance framework, including award coverage, employment arrangements, payroll compliance and remediation of identified gaps.
- Lead the people-related components of a broader AML/CTF regulatory uplift, including role classification, employee screening, training, governance and remediation.
- Partner closely with Legal, Risk, Compliance, Payroll and senior HR stakeholders to assess risk, validate findings and implement practical, sustainable controls.
- Identify and manage potential employee, financial and regulatory exposure, including developing remediation plans where required and ensuring issues are appropriately documented and closed.
- Review and enhance HR policies, processes, contracts, documentation and employee lifecycle controls to ensure they are legally sound and fit for purpose.




- Develop and embed a manager capability program covering employment law, procedural fairness, protected rights, complaint management, decision-making and when to involve HR.
- Provide clear, commercially minded advice to senior stakeholders and bring structure, momentum and sound judgement to a complex six-month transformation program.

About you:

- Strong employee relations experience is essential - you will be comfortable navigating complex ER matters, employment legislation, workplace investigations, performance, conduct, grievances and sensitive employee issues.
- Strong knowledge of Australian employment law, modern awards, classifications, contracts and associated compliance obligations.
- Experience working in a complex, regulated or highly structured organisation, ideally across a broad HR or people-risk portfolio.
- Demonstrated experience leading HR compliance, remediation, governance or transformation projects from assessment through to implementation.
- Confident partnering with senior leaders, Legal, Payroll, Risk and Compliance, with the ability to translate complex requirements into practical action.
- Highly credible, pragmatic and commercially minded,



with excellent judgement and the ability to manage sensitive information with discretion.
- Comfortable operating autonomously, bringing structure to ambiguity and taking ownership of a substantial project portfolio.

What's on offer:

- 6-month contract with a well-established multinational organisation.
- A broad and genuinely engaging portfolio spanning employee relations, employment compliance, regulatory uplift and manager capability.
- High-level exposure across HR, Legal, Risk, Compliance and senior business stakeholders.
- The opportunity to make a tangible impact by strengthening frameworks, resolving identified risks and embedding sustainable ways of working.
- Flexible working environment and a collaborative, professional culture.
- Immediate start preferred.

If this sounds like you, please send your resume by clicking on the apply button.

This is a hybrid position.

Reference number: 06800-(phone hidden)

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📌 HR Business Partner - Compliance & Transformation (Sydney)
🏢 Robert Half
📍 Sydney