Responsibilities
- Lead HR operations for U.K. employees, ensuring alignment with Star’s global HR strategy.
- Support organizational design initiatives to align structure, roles, and capabilities with business goals.
- Oversee U.K. compensation and benefits programs, ensuring accurate administration, regulatory compliance, and ongoing market competitiveness.
- Partner with managers and global L&D colleagues to identify and support professional and leadership development needs.
- Drive employee engagement and recognition initiatives that reinforce Star’s “Great Place to Work” culture.
- Provide guidance on performance management, employee relations, disciplinary actions, and grievance resolution.
- Ensure compliance with all employment legislation for U.K. employees.
- Lead and support HR projects, audits, and process improvements to enhance efficiency, scalability, and compliance.
- Generate and analyze HR metrics to inform decision-making and drive business improvements.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to managers and employees, promoting an inclusive, high-performance culture.
- Act of the first point of contact for RFP requests for information.
- Collaborate with HR colleagues globally to maintain consistency across policies, programs, and employee experience.
- Deputize for global HR colleagues as required.
- Travel to the York office as needed for meetings and events.
Skills and Experience
- Deep knowledge of U.K. employment law and HR best practices.
- Proven experience designing, administering, and evaluating compensation and benefits programs.
- Strong background in organizational development, change management, and talent planning.
- Experience implementing or optimizing HRIS/HCM systems (UKG preferred).
- Excellent communication, analytical, and Excel skills.
- Skilled in coaching, influencing, and conflict resolution at all organizational levels.
- High integrity, accountability, and ability to operate independently.
- Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to multitask and meet deadlines.
- Continuous improvement mindset — proactively identifies and leads process enhancements.
- Thrives in a fast-growing, global, technology-driven environment.
Minimum Qualifications
- Minimum of 5 years in a similar HR leadership role, ideally within software or technology sectors.
- CIPD qualified to a minimum level 5.
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or related field
- All StarCompliance employees are expected to commit to a high standard of personal integrity and carry out their responsibilities in an ethical manner.
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What We Do
StarCompliance is the world's leading provider of compliance software to the global financial industry. Our clients include asset managers, broker-dealers, private equity firms, insurance providers, investment banks, and diversified financial institutions. Our scalable, easy-to-use solutions provide a 360-degree view of employee and business activity to help firms monitor and reduce risk, meet regulatory obligations, gain efficiencies, and drive employee adoption. Our Employee Conflicts of Interest suite provides clients a single place for monitoring and mitigating potential employee conflicts, covering: personal trading activity; insider trading; private investments, gifts and entertainment spending; outside business activities; and political donations. The STAR Mobile app supports personal trading pre-clearance requests and gifts and entertainment spending submissions, and allows compliance officers and employee supervisors to review and approve those requests and submissions on-the-go. Compliance Control Room centralizes all firm deal-related activity—automatically surfacing critical data that might otherwise be missed—and allowing for easier conflict searches, so deals can be cleared faster and with greater confidence.
