Learning Partner - People, Internal Audit & Finance

Our team of Learning Partners provides dedicated support to specific areas of our business to deliver a first-class learning experience, putting human-centred design at the heart. As a Learning Partner you will dedicate your time to working with key stakeholders across People, Finance and Internal Audit to understand the capabilities needed in those business areas, exploring pain points and opportunities for where learning might be a solution. You will then work closely with other members of the People Division, to co-create and deliver solutions which support our greater YBS people strategy and deliver against the business requirements. Working alongside the People Partner for the business areas, your role is to work with key stakeholders applying your specialist knowledge and expertise to conduct a root cause before proposing solutions. You will then go on to play a key role in shaping the design, development and deployment of solutions, facilitate their delivery, and coach colleagues as they embed learning and spend time following up and evaluating learning benefits. By doing this, you will ensure that the business area you are supporting has the skills and capabilities they need for the future, helping to reduce people risks, such as retention. You will keep abreast of latest thinking related to learning effectiveness and introduce new perspectives, methods, and technologies to our current approach. The Learning Partner for People, Finance and Internal Audit joins YBS at an exciting time, where they can help to shape the work we are doing on future skills. We have identified key skills which are fundamental to ensuring our people have the capabilities to deliver our strategy and serve our customers as the world around us rapidly changes, and this has formed the basis of the Future Skills project. The Learning Partner will play a key part in engaging key stakeholders from the People, Finance and Internal Audit areas to drive forward Future Skills, ensuring active engagement in learning, meaningful participation in and constant evaluation of action plans and impact of learning solutions. Importantly, you won t be doing all this in isolation. You will collaborate with two existing Learning Partners, the Learning Partner Lead, and with other colleagues in the learning network and People Division to promote the build of a learning culture, to bring consistency and efficiency to learning solution design and delivery and to share learning for themselves. You may also work with third parties from time-to-time to complement our capabilities.

• Ideally you will have a learning background and/or a good appreciation of current learning trends and theory, and how learning can help with business changes and operational demands. You will have experience of developing capabilities in others through the design and delivery of impactful learning solutions. You will have the ability to do some design work yourself as well as work with internal and external designers.
• We are also looking for someone who has experience of working in a highly regulated environment such as financial services. For the People, Finance and Internal Audit role, you will not need to have deep technical expertise in these areas but you will need to understand the complexities and challenges faced in a highly regulated environment at a time of digital transformation, including the impact on colleagues, and the frameworks used to understand and support the development of the capabilities required now and into the future, and which can help build clear career pathways for colleagues.
• You will have strength in consulting and collaborating with others, curiously exploring to get to root cause of issues. You will be comfortable engaging with a range of stakeholders and be able to adapt your style to deliver the best results and to influence as necessary.
• You will have strong self-management skills and be able to balance how and where you invest your time. You will have strong project management, planning and delivery skills and be resourceful in how you make things happen.
• You will be familiar with using data to support your decisions. You will have strong written and verbal communication skills.
• You will love using your initiative and also collaborating with others in pursuit of learning success. You will thrive on finding the best way to deliver desired outcomes at pace.
• At heart, you will be a self-directed learner who just loves applying your learning. You get a kick from inspiring others to be the same.
  
  At YBS we don t have shareholders, we have members. We care about people and that includes you. So here, you ll be respected for who you are, you ll be able to bring your whole self to work, and you ll have everything you need to build a long and rewarding career.
Flexibility. We offer a range of flexible working options without unsocial hours, which can help you find a healthy work-life balance. Whether it s finishing early for an appointment or fitting your studies and hobbies in around your working hours, we can help make it work for you. We re happy to talk flexible working and you can reach out to us anytime during the recruitment process to discuss this. Development. We want you to feel challenged here. Whatever your ambitions, we re committed to helping you develop your skills and move ahead in your career journey. From day one, we ll set you up for success with a brilliant induction and full training plan, all designed to get you up to speed quickly. Inclusivity. We re passionate about creating an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome and able to be themselves. If you ll go the extra mile to help our members, you ll fit right in and feel you belong here. About our Benefits We offer lots of fantastic rewards that you can make the most of in and out of work, including:
• Holiday. You ll get 25 days plus Bank Holidays, as well as the option to buy up to a further 5 days.
• Bonus. At YBS we work collaboratively and share in our success together, so when we reach our goals were all rewarded with an on target bonus of 7% of eligible pay (with the opportunity to earn up to a maximum 15%).
• Pension. We know how important it is to save towards the future, that s why we ll contribute up 11% into your YBS pension.
• Healthcare. Health and wellbeing are an important part of life at YBS, when you join us you ll have access to a range of health benefits to suit your life including private medical insurance, dental and healthcare plans.
• My Benefits. When you join YBS you ll have access to our self-service benefits portal, where you can access a range of retail, hospitality and health discounts