HR Business Partner – HR Manager

Financeit

HR Business Partner managing people operations at Financeit, a financing provider. Focused on fostering high-performance culture and ensuring smooth HR processes.

Posted 4/28/2026full-timeToronto • 🇨🇦 CanadaMid-LevelSenior💰 CA$100,000 - CA$120,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Coaching the Coaches: You’ll spend significant time as a consultant to our managers, helping them navigate tough conversations, build better teams, and grow their leadership skills.
Leadership Development: You will own formal leadership development at all levels of the organization, from needs analysis to program design and rollout.
Operationalizing Success: You’ll lead annual rollout of Job Effectiveness Plans (JEPs) and our performance review cycles, ensuring "excellence" isn't just a buzzword, but something we measure and reward.
Strategy & Insights: You’ll dive into our people data to find the "why" behind the numbers—presenting insights on turnover, engagement, and culture to help us make smarter business decisions.
Talent Reviews & Succession: Partnering with the Senior Talent Partner you will contribute to the Talent Review process, identifying high-potential employees and ensuring we have a robust internal pipeline for future leadership.
Taking the Pulse: You’ll own our employee engagement surveys, but you won't just look at the scores—you’ll design the action plans that address them.
Leading the Narrative: From Town Halls to internal announcements, you’ll be the voice of our culture, ensuring our team feels heard, informed, and inspired.
Navigating the Nuance: You’ll handle the "whole bucket" of employee relations. You’re the calm in the storm, resolving conflicts and conducting investigations with empathy and total professionalism.
Compliance: You’ll own our health and safety program and annual policies review process, as well as oversee compliance training completion throughout the year.
Mentoring Your Direct Report: You will lead and grow our HR Generalist, providing the guidance they need to execute flawless HR Operations, while helping them develop their HR advisor experience as well.
Payroll and Benefits: While you aren't in the weeds of every data entry, you’ll provide the oversight to ensure our benefits and payroll are compliant, competitive, and humming along perfectly.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Proven Track Record: You have 6–8 years of progressive HR experience, with at least 2 years in a Business Partner or Manager-level role.
Leadership: You have managed at least one direct report before and know how to lead by example and from experience.
ER Expertise: You aren't afraid of hard conversations. You know how to balance legal compliance with a human approach. You have managed some complex employee relations including workplace investigations.
Payroll & Benefits Oversight: You don't need to run payroll daily, but you must have a high level of understanding of payroll cycles, tax compliance, and benefits management to oversee the HR Generalist and their responsibilities.
Talent Management: You have experience designing or executing performance review and Goal-setting cycles and know how to align them to business goals.
The "Consultant" Mindset: You can influence senior leadership and provide push-back when necessary, acting as a true advisor to the VP.
Automation Interest: You are excited by what the world of AI can offer us and have already used your best judgement to implement some AI driven solutions in smart ways.

Benefits

Comp & perks

An award-winning culture with a collaborative & inclusive team.
Competitive pay and performance-based bonus:
Annual Base Salary: $100,000 - $120,000
Annual Bonus: 20%
Committed to flexible work arrangements, offering hybrid workplace options.
Comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage + Lifestyle Account.
RRSP Matching and Parental Leave Top UP Program.
In office massage, meditation & workout sessions.
Virtual events such as Lunch & Learns, company parties, fun team activities and charity initiatives.
Career learning and development programs.

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Hard Skills & Tools

HR operationsemployee relationsperformance review cyclespayroll managementbenefits managementcompliance trainingleadership developmentdata analysistalent managementAI solutions implementation

Soft Skills

coachingconsultingconflict resolutionempathycommunicationinfluencingmentoringstrategic thinkingproblem-solvingteam building