Senior HR Business Partner

About Us 

MarketAxess is on a journey to digitally transform one of the world’s largest financial markets, enabling the shift from analog, phone-based trading to a fully electronic marketplace. Why does this matter? Because our platform makes trading fixed-income more accessible, ultimately improving transparency, efficiency, and competition in the marketplace. Changing the way an established industry transacts is no easy feat. There will be twists and turns, because no one’s ever done this before. But now, more than 2,000 clients around the world rely on our solutions, and that number is only expected to grow in the years ahead. We know where we’re going. How we get there is up to us. Join us and help Take Us There. 

The Role

The Senior HR Business Partner will work closely with business leaders across the US. This role will provide hands-on partnership and strategic insight in areas such as leadership coaching, organizational design, employee relations, performance management, conflict management and compensation. The Senior HRBP will excel at working in a fast-paced environment, thrive on building and innovating, and have a strong ability to drive initiatives forward despite any roadblocks. Success in this position requires the ability to gain trust and respect of our Global Management Team and effectively engage, collaborate, and have a positive and lasting impact on them and their teams. 

This role reports to the Head of US HR Business Partners. 

How You'll Help Take Us There

• Partner with the Global Management Team and their leadership teams to build meaningful relationships and quickly gain credibility and establish trust. 
• Provide strategic leadership by analyzing workforce trends, identifying organizational gaps, and developing talent strategies and solutions that drive business performance. 
• Effectively deliver guidance and counsel to business leaders, while maintaining integrity of all HR policies and practices. 
• Be accountable for the successful delivery/implementation of HR initiatives (e.g., advising on compensation decisions, driving organizational design, employee retention and engagement, and supporting leaders in managing change). 
• Manage and resolve complex employee relations issues. Conduct effective, thorough, and objective investigations and effectively partner with Legal for risk mitigation. 
• Provide HR support across a variety of value-added initiatives in areas such as development, internal mobility, employee engagement, goal setting and performance management. 
• Collaborate with the Global HRBP team along with HR Ops, Compensation, Organizational Development and Recruitment to ensure company-wide success of people programs and initiatives. 
• Lead performance calibrations with business leaders to inform year-end compensation and pay for performance decisions. 
• Maintain in-depth knowledge of legal requirements related to day-to-day management of employees, reducing legal risks, and ensuring regulatory compliance. Partner with the legal team as needed/required. 

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in an HR discipline 
• 8+ years of experience working as a Human Resources Business Partner, preferably in a global organization, supporting a population of 500+ employees 
• Experience supporting C-Level leadership and senior management in a complex and regulated environment 
• Superb interpersonal skills with the ability to tailor their style as needed to effectively influence and develop relationships with all levels of leadership, employees, and peers 
• Experience with executive onboarding, talent management and development, retention, and compensation administration, plus a strong familiarity with a wide range of HR and recruiting policies, practices, and trends 
• Highly experienced in handling complex ER issues and risk mitigation 
• Strong excel skills with ability to work with HR reporting & analytics to generate insights and present findings back to the HR team and the business 
• Organizational design experience including career pathing and department restructuring or acquisitions 
• Ability to execute firm-wide HR initiatives with excellence i