About Unity Advisory.
Unity Advisory is a modern advisory business built for today's CFO, with connected solutions across finance, deals and tax. Focussed on client outcomes, seasoned experts lead every engagement, in an operating model powered by AI and free from audit conflict.
About the role
This role is about performance development, not performance management. Unity's approach to performance is built on genuine ownership and accountability, not a traditional annual review cycle — but the system itself isn't the point. The point is helping people actually grow into what that ownership requires: sharper judgement, stronger client and commercial instincts, real skill in giving and using feedback, and the behaviours that take someone from new joiner to trusted senior contributor.
This role exists to build that growth, not to run the administrative mechanics of reviews and calibration. It's about coaching Partners and Functional Leaders to develop their people well, giving every new joiner a genuine development runway from day one, and building the skills, frameworks and programmes that help people grow faster and more deliberately than they would simply by doing the job. Classic L&D sits inside this, but the mandate is bigger: making sure people are developing, not just being assessed.
What you'll own
Feedback and check-in skills: build the skills behind how Unity gives and receives feedback — people requesting feedback proactively, managers giving sharp and timely feedback, and check-in conversations that are genuinely structured performance discussions, not informal catch-ups
Learning programmes: design and curate the professional and technical skills development that sits underneath the performance model — practical, tied to real work, sourcing external providers where that's the better route and building internal content where it isn't
Calibration and promotion readiness: help Partners and Functional Leaders build strong evidence for promotion and reward decisions — coaching on what good evidence looks like, so panels can make fair, consistent, well-evidenced decisions
Probation and onboarding: own onboarding and the probation experience so new joiners and their sponsors get real substance from day one, with every new hire set up to demonstrate strong early contribution
Performance tooling literacy: build firm-wide understanding of the modern performance tools Unity uses to connect strategy to individual accountability, so they build trust rather than anxiety
Skills and progression frameworks: define skills and progression frameworks for client-facing and enablement tracks that map onto Unity's own grading and progression criteria, working with the Reward Lead so learning pathways line up with progression and pay
Measurement: use data, not just attendance or completion rates, to track whether this work is actually changing behaviour — feedback quality, check-in substance, calibration consistency — and report to the CPO and Management Team
What success looks like in year one
Partners and Functional Leaders visibly more confident and skilled at developing their people, not just assessing them
People growing faster and more deliberately, with real development evidence behind every promotion case, not last-minute case-building
Every new joiner on a genuine development runway from day one, not just surviving probation
A live, skills-based framework that people can see their own growth against
What we're looking for
Senior experience in people development, performance coaching or L&D, ideally somewhere with a strong, explicit growth philosophy rather than a generic annual-review cycle
Genuine comfort connecting development work to how Unity assesses and rewards performance, without this becoming a process-administration role
A strong instructional designer and facilitator — able to build and personally deliver programmes, not only commission them
Energised by growing people and building a development mindset into how they work, rather than running review mechanics or delivering content for its own sake
A pragmatic prioritiser, comfortable scoping ambitious work into 3 focused days a week and sequencing what matters most first
Confident coaching senior Partners and Directors on how to develop their people, not just how to assess them
How this role fits at Unity
You'll sit in the People Team working with the Chief People Officer, the Reward Lead, and People Ops, and work closely with Partners and Functional Leaders across client teams and enablement teams. Feedback, check-ins, probation and calibration are where your impact shows up, but the goal is always growth, not process — this isn't a separate, bolt-on training function.
Skills Required
- Senior experience in people development, performance coaching, or learning and development
- Experience connecting employee development with performance assessment and reward processes
- Strong instructional design and facilitation skills, including personally delivering development programs
- Ability to coach senior Partners, Directors, and Functional Leaders on developing employees
- Ability to prioritize and scope ambitious development work within three days per week
- Experience in an organization with an explicit growth philosophy
What We Do
At Unity Advisory we offer a new perspective. Focused on the office of the CFO, with big firm experience, deep expertise and sector knowledge. We are an AI and Cloud first business which strives to use all that we have and know to deliver services and products that are valued and provide value, always. We are a partner led, client first and adaptable business. Free from the traditional conflicts of interest. Our portfolio of services and products currently covers, Tax, Office of the CFO, Advisory, Transformation and Managed Services. This will evolve as we adapt in response to the needs of our clients. Our target client segment is mid to upper mid-market businesses, including PE backed businesses. We’re building a culture that’s Straightforward, Intentionally Commercial, Open, Experimental, and Team-First. Unity Advisory is scaling fast — driven by client demand, clear ambition, and a team of experienced people who want to work differently. We’re supported by long-term investment from Warburg Pincus, one of the world’s leading private equity firms. We’re looking for high performers who want more — more ownership, more variety, and more impact. If you’re ready to help shape something new and do your best work in a team that does things differently, we’d love to hear from you. Get in touch at [email protected]
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