Principal People Business Partner, Finance

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128K-220K Annually
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Fintech • Mobile • Software • Financial Services
SoFi’s mission is to help people reach financial independence to realize their ambitions.
The Role
The role involves acting as a strategic advisor for Finance leaders, developing and executing people strategies, coaching senior leaders, managing change initiatives, leveraging data for decision-making, ensuring compliance, and mentoring HR talent.
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Who we are:

Shape a brighter financial future with us.

Together with our members, we’re changing the way people think about and interact with personal finance.

We’re a next-generation financial services company and national bank using innovative, mobile-first technology to help our millions of members reach their goals. The industry is going through an unprecedented transformation, and we’re at the forefront. We’re proud to come to work every day knowing that what we do has a direct impact on people’s lives, with our core values guiding us every step of the way. Join us to invest in yourself, your career, and the financial world.

The role:

At SoFi, our People Business Partners are strategic and trusted advisors to senior leaders, responsible for aligning people strategies with business objectives. In this role, you’ll lead and implement the people strategy for our Finance Team, working directly with SoFi’s Chief Financial Officer. Your work will empower the business to make smart, data-driven decisions while fostering a high performing culture. This role balances strategic influence with hands-on execution, operating as a thought partner to executives and a coach to leaders.

What you’ll do:

  • Be a Strategic Partner: Serve as a trusted advisor to Finance leaders, shaping and executing people strategies that align with business goals to enable high performing and engaged teams.
  • Design and Deliver Impactful People Solutions: Diagnose root cause organizational and talent challenges, develop scalable and innovative solutions, and lead execution to drive sustainable business outcomes.
  • Coach and Advise Senior Leaders: Provide executive-level coaching to leaders on leadership effectiveness, performance, team dynamics, and change management.
  • Lead Change and Transformation Initiatives: Address highly ambiguous organizational challenges and drive large-scale initiatives to shape the future of the organization, ensuring clear communication and leader readiness.
  • Leverages Data for Results: Use people analytics and business data to inform decision-making, anticipate future organizational needs, identify trends and risks, and proactively improve organizational health and performance. 
  • Ensure Compliance and Support: Balance employee and business needs by providing expert guidance on employment practices, maintaining up-to-date knowledge of legal requirements and ensuring a fair, compliant, and supportive workplace.
  • Execute with excellence: You make it easy for the business to work with the people team, simplifying programs, weaving the people strategy throughout multiple touchpoints to drive intended business outcomes through people programs with tailored business knowledge.
  • Enable and Develop High-Performing HR Talent: Partner with and mentor People Business Partners, supporting their professional growth, capability development, and effectiveness as strategic advisors.
  • Collaborate across the People Team: Work closely with People Team Centers of Excellence and HR Business Partners to design and deliver integrated people programs that drive measurable impact for the business.

What you’ll need:

  • Strategic and Hands-On Expertise: Proven ability to balance big-picture thinking with hands-on execution, including progressive HR experience in dynamic environments.
  • Influential Advisor: Trusted sounding board for executives, shaping leadership decisions through strong influence and executive presence, while also developing senior leaders.
  • Data-Driven Decision-Making: Strong capability to leverage people analytics and business data to identify trends, assess risk, inform decisions, and drive meaningful organizational change.
  • HR Knowledge and Expertise: Strong understanding of key HR domains such as compensation, performance management, employee engagement, employee relations, talent management, and inclusive culture.
  • Influence and Relationship Building: Exceptional communication, executive presence, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships, adapt messaging to diverse audiences, and influence outcomes across the organization.
  • Clarity in Ambiguity: Effectively navigates complexity to drive aligned, focused action. Adaptable and resilient, quickly adjusting priorities and recommendations based on new information.

Nice to have:

  • Experience in a banking or tech company 
  • Workday experience
Compensation and Benefits
The base pay range for this role is listed below. Final base pay offer will be determined based on individual factors such as the candidate’s experience, skills, and location. 
 
To view all of our comprehensive and competitive benefits, visit our Benefits at SoFi page!
SoFi provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, breastfeeding, and conditions related to breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age (40 or over), physical or medical disability, medical condition, marital status, registered domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, military and/or veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable state or federal law.The Company hires the best qualified candidate for the job, without regard to protected characteristics.Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.New York applicants: Notice of Employee RightsSoFi is committed to an inclusive culture. As part of this commitment, SoFi offers reasonable accommodations to candidates with physical or mental disabilities. If you need accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, please let your recruiter know or email [email protected].Due to insurance coverage issues, we are unable to accommodate remote work from Hawaii or Alaska at this time.
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Skills Required

  • Progressive HR experience in dynamic environments
  • Strong understanding of key HR domains such as compensation, performance management, employee engagement, employee relations, talent management, and inclusive culture
  • Exceptional communication, executive presence, and stakeholder management skills

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SoFi Compensation & Benefits Highlights

  • Parental & Family Support Up to 12 weeks fully paid parental leave, paid caregiver leave, fertility/adoption resources, and subsidized backup childcare/eldercare are offered. Pet insurance and family-building support further broaden the coverage.
  • Healthcare Strength Medical, dental, and vision coverage is paired with company-paid short- and long-term disability and life insurance. Mental-health support via Modern Health and employer HSA contributions enhance overall health support.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Flexible vacation for exempt employees, generous PTO for non-exempt, paid holidays, and early-release “SoFi Fridays” expand time-off options. An additional 16 hours of paid volunteer time underscores community engagement.

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
4,500 Employees
Year Founded: 2011

What We Do

SoFi wasn’t built to be a bank. Or a technology company. We were built for one mission: help people achieve financial independence so they can realize their ambitions. Redefining an entire industry isn’t easy work—and it’s not for the faint of heart. It takes a certain kind of team. People with diverse perspectives and expertise, united by a common sense of purpose. People willing to challenge assumptions but always do the right thing. People proving that innovation and responsibility don’t have to compete, but can come together to create something truly unconventional in the world. For the last eight years, we’ve been charting this new path forward. We call it The SoFi Way. At SoFi, we don’t just talk about culture: we live it. The SoFi Way is how we show up every day, how we make decisions, and how we build for our members, clients, and each other.

Why Work With Us

Together with our members, we’re changing the way people think about and interact with personal finance. We’re a next-generation Fintech company using innovative, mobile-first technology to help our members reach their goals. The industry is going through an unprecedented transformation, and we’re at the forefront.

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