Senior People & Culture Operations Advisor

This is a chance to join a high-growth, highly regulated organisation and deliver meaningful people outcomes during a pivotal period of transformation.
Immediate impact role supporting enterprise-wide people partnering initiativesInitial 6 month contract, with potential extensionPerformance, reward, engagement and employee lifecycle focusCirca. $145K inc super p.a.
About the Organisation:
This organisation is a well-established, customer-focused, commercial business with a strong reputation for innovation, growth, and delivering exceptional experiences to its customers. The culture is collaborative, pragmatic and hands-on, with leaders who value accountability, integrity, commercial thinking and a genuine commitment to people.
Operating in a highly regulated environment, the business combines the agility and pace of a modern organisation with the governance and discipline required to support sustainable long-term success. The organisation is entering an exciting new strategic phase focused on growth, capability uplift and operational excellence.
About the Role:
An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Senior People Operations Advisor to join a high-performing People and Culture team during a period of significant activity and change. Working across the broader organisation, you will partner closely with People Partners and leaders to provide practical and commercially focused HR support across a wide range of people matters.
The role has been created to provide additional capability during a busy period that includes a major performance and remuneration cycle, employee engagement activity, reward program changes and a range of business-led people initiatives. You will support managers with performance conversations, employee relations matters, workforce changes, employee lifecycle activities and leadership coaching while contributing to broader people projects and priorities.
This position offers excellent exposure across multiple business functions and provides a strong development opportunity for an experienced advisor looking to operate at an emerging People Partner level. While complex employee relations matters will be supported by specialist capability, you will be trusted to independently manage smaller end-to-end pieces of work and deliver quality outcomes for stakeholders.
About You:
You are an experienced Senior HR Advisor, or HR Operations Specialist, with progressive generalist HR experience, gained within fast-paced and commercially focused environments. You have developed strong capability across performance management, employee life cycle operations, organisational change, remuneration, HR projects, engagement and general people advisory support. You are confident coaching managers, influencing stakeholders and navigating competing priorities while maintaining professionalism, sound judgement and confidentiality. You enjoy working in broad roles where ownership, initiative and practical problem solving are valued.
You will bring:
Experience in a Senior HR Advisor, HR Operations, or hands-on HR Business Partner or generalist experience from a medium-sized, fast-paced, evolving, highly regulated, corporate environmentStrong working knowledge of Australian employment legislation and contemporary employment practicesExperience supporting performance, remuneration or incentive processesThe ability to independently deliver people initiatives or HR project outcomesExcellent communication, stakeholder management and relationship building skillsA proactive and solutions-focused mindset with the ability to operate in a changing environmentRelevant tertiary qualifications in Human Resources, Employment Relations, Business, Psychology or a related discipline
Additional Requirements/Benefits:
Hybrid working environment with an expectation of approximately 3 days per week in the officeModern Sydney CBD office locationOpportunity to work closely with senior leaders across multiple business functionsExposure to organisation-wide initiatives and strategic people programsImmediate start with potential extension beyond the initial engagement period
Why Apply?
This is an outstanding opportunity to join a respected organisation at a critical point in its people agenda. You will gain broad organisational exposure, work alongside experienced People Partners and senior leaders, and play a meaningful role in delivering key people initiatives that will shape the employee experience and future success of the business.
For HR professionals seeking a role that combines operational delivery, stakeholder engagement and strategic exposure, this position offers genuine variety, visibility and impact within a supportive and collaborative environment.
How to Apply:
If you are confident that your experience reflects the above criteria, please apply online. Should you have queries or would like to sense-check your alignment, please contact Matthew Saitta at matthew@tandempartners.com.au or call 02 8045 2923.
Tandem Partners is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Job Ref: 4058938