Senior HR Business Partner (Bilingual)

The Apex Group was established in Bermuda in 2003 and is now one of the world’s largest fund administration and middle office solutions providers.

Our business is unique in its ability to reach globally, service locally and provide cross-jurisdictional services. With our clients at the heart of everything we do, our hard-working team has successfully delivered on an unprecedented growth and transformation journey, and we are now represented by over circa 13,000 employees across 112 offices worldwide.Your career with us should reflect your energy and passion.

That’s why, at Apex Group, we will do more than simply ‘empower’ you. We will work to supercharge your unique skills and experience.

Take the lead and we’ll give you the support you need to be at the top of your game. And we offer you the freedom to be a positive disrupter and turn big ideas into bold, industry-changing realities.

For our business, for clients, and for you

Senior HR Business Partner

**Please submit your English CV upon applying**

Job Summary:

Apex Group is looking for a Senior HR Business Partner for Brazil. The role is expected to operate at a strategic and tactical leadership level, ensuring outcomes are delivered through appropriate teams, processes, and partnerships, rather than direct operational execution. The successful candidate will work independently, whilst contributing to a larger global HR team. The role requires a high level of autonomy, decision making, managing, and coaching abilities and strong experience in a similar role.  

The Role & Key Responsibilities:

• Partner with senior business leaders on strategic HR topics, including organizational design, restructuring, and complex employee relations matters, providing clear, pragmatic guidance aligned to business objectives.

• Lead the regional delivery of the people strategy, ensuring consistent execution of key employee lifecycle activities (e.g., compensation reviews, performance cycles) through effective coordination across HR teams.

• Act as a trusted advisor on workforce and talent strategy, working in partnership with Talent Acquisition to shape hiring plans, and driving succession planning and talent development initiatives.

• Lead and support change management initiatives, ensuring alignment between business transformation priorities and people outcomes.

• Drive M&A-related people initiatives, ensuring smooth and structured integration aligned with business strategy and operating models.

• Maintain strong knowledge of employment and regulatory requirements relevant to the fund administration and fiduciary business in Brazil, ensuring compliance with local labor laws and reporting obligations.

• Lead the implementation and continuous improvement of HR policies and processes, ensuring alignment with local legislation and Group standards.

• Provide high-quality advisory support to senior stakeholders on people and culture topics, enabling effective decision-making and execution.

• Manage complex employee relations matters, including investigations, separations, redundancies, and legal cases, with sound judgment and risk awareness.
• Work in close alignment with the Regional Head of HR to ensure consistency of approach, share best practices, and support broader regional priorities.

• Collaborate with local and global HR teams to contribute to regional and global initiatives, ensuring effective localization and execution.

• Lead, coach, and develop HR team members, ensuring clear delegation, capability building, and delivery through the team.

• Drive delivery through structured workstreams, ensuring clear ownership, follow-through, and measurable outcomes without direct reliance on individual operational execution.

• Support and lead ad hoc initiatives as required to meet evolving business needs.

Skills Required:

• Strong ability to operate as a trusted advisor to senior leadership
• Demonstrated experience influencing decisions on structure, talent, and performance
• Ability to translate business priorities into a focused HR agenda
• Proven ability to structure complex workstreams and drive delivery through clear ownership models
• Strong capability in delegation, follow‑through, and ensuring execution through team and vendors, while managing end‑to‑end accountability
• Strong judgment in defining and communicating ownership boundaries across HR, business, and support teams
• Quick learner, capable of multi-tasking

Education and Experience:

• Experience working closely with senior stakeholders, with the ability to influence and challenge when needed
• Minimum of 6 years of experience
• Locally relevant HR Professional Membership credentials would be a plus
• Significant experience gained in a similar role and industry
• Solid knowledge of employee relations processes and relevant employment legislation.

What you will get in return:

• A genuinely unique opportunity to get wider HR exposure across the entire North America region
• Exposure to numerous aspects of the business, cross-jurisdiction and working with senior management directly

We pride ourselves in our commitment to fostering a connected and inclusive culture, all our opportunities at Apex have four (4) days in office requirement.

Additional information:

We are an equal opportunity employer and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, gender identity, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, socio-economic, responsibilities for dependants, physical or mental disability. Any hiring decisions are made on the basis of skills, qualifications, and experiences.

We measure our success as a business, not only by delivering great products and services and continually increasing our assets under administration and market share, but also by how we positively impact people, society and the planet.

For more information on our commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) please visit https://apexgroup.com/csr-policy/

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Disclaimer: Unsolicited CVs sent to Apex (Talent Acquisition Team or Hiring Managers) by recruitment agencies will not be accepted for this position. Apex operates a direct sourcing model and where agency assistance is required, the Talent Acquisition team will engage directly with our exclusive recruitment partners.