As an experienced HR Business Partner, you will act as a trusted advisor to leaders across our London office, supporting organisational design, workforce planning and team effectiveness in a fast-paced, high-performance environment. You’ll bring a data-driven and commercially grounded approach to people decisions, balancing risk, performance and long-term impact. 

Working closely with senior stakeholders, you will drive performance, strengthen leadership accountability and help shape a high-performing, values-led culture aligned with Optiver’s global priorities. 

What you’ll do 

• Partner with leaders on organisational design, workforce planning and team effectiveness  
  Support performance and compensation cycles, bringing analytical rigour to calibration and talent decisions  

• Use people data and analytics to identify trends and provide actionable insights to senior stakeholders  

• Lead complex employee relations cases, ensuring fairness, consistency and compliance with UK employment law  

• Coach managers to address performance issues early and maintain high standards  

• Oversee sensitive contractual matters, including non-compete management  

• Support onboarding and exit processes, using insights to improve retention and employee experience  

• Drive the London engagement agenda, translating survey and exit data into measurable actions  

• Facilitate leadership discussions that balance performance, accountability and culture  

• Act as the UK subject matter expert on employment law and HR practices  

• Partner with Legal and Compliance on policy development and governance  

• Contribute to global People initiatives and cross-regional projects  

• Explore opportunities to leverage data, automation and AI to improve HR effectiveness  

• Provide day-to-day leadership and development support to the HR Generalist 

Who you are 

• 6+ years of progressive HR experience, including in a strategic HRBP or HR Manager role  

• Experience in trading or financial services preferred, ideally in a fast-paced environment  

• Experience managing or mentoring at least one direct report preferred  

• Strong knowledge of UK employment law and experience handling complex employee relations matters  

• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to translate data into practical insights  

• Confident advising and constructively challenging senior stakeholders  

• Strong commercial judgement, balancing risk, fairness and business priorities  

• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment  

• Intellectually curious, solutions-focused and commercially minded  

• Calm, credible and confident in sensitive situations  

• Able to hold leaders accountable while building trust  

• Adaptable and comfortable working in a continuously evolving environment 

Who we are  

At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing force no matter the market conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets for everyone who participates. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe. 

What you’ll get 

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the toughest problems in the financial markets. 

In addition, you’ll receive: 

• A performance-based bonus structure, enabling all of our employees to benefit from our global profit pool. 

• 27 paid vacation days plus all UK public holidays. 

• Daily breakfast and lunch, along with support on commuting expenses. 

• Private medical insurance, pension scheme, and ClassPass fitness membership. 

• Training and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events. 

• International transfer opportunities for global career growth. 

How to apply 

Apply directly via the form below. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruitment team via recruitment inquiry form. 

Please note: 

• We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role 

• We cannot accept applications via email 

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Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.