Senior Global HR Business Partner, Finance – Global Functions

• Support and implement the Global People Strategy, Functional HR Strategy, and other strategic HR initiatives with business leaders
• Advise and support business management for assigned organizations
• Shape and deliver the people strategy for Varian Finance and designated global functions, supporting approximately 1,000 employees worldwide
• Translate business priorities into practical people, organization, talent, leadership, and culture solutions
• Coordinate HR Business Partners, HR Care partners, specialist teams, and HR operations across countries
• Establish shared operating rhythms, ownership, collaboration, and consistent execution across countries and functions
• Coach and develop HR colleagues and support succession readiness for critical HR roles
• Resolve cross-border and cross-functional issues with appropriate escalation and governance
• Lead talent reviews, succession planning, leadership development, and critical talent discussions
• Coach senior leaders on team effectiveness, talent decisions, inclusive leadership, and navigating complexity
• Shape organization design, strategic workforce planning, and productivity initiatives
• Strengthen engagement, inclusion, accountability, collaboration, and manager effectiveness
• Ensure people decisions balance business needs with employee experience, fairness, compliance, and local context
• Ensure execution of workforce planning, performance, compensation, talent, engagement, and organizational-change processes
• Align global priorities, country-level execution, and HR standards
• Ensure adherence to company policies, labor requirements, data privacy, ethical standards, and governance
• Lead people aspects of operating-model, digital, productivity, and capability transformations
• Define outcomes and success measures, monitor progress, address adoption risks, and sustain change

• 15 or more years of broad HR experience, including senior HR Business Partner or HR leadership roles in a sizable, complex, global matrix organization
• Demonstrated success partnering with Finance and/or enterprise functions, with a strong understanding of functional operating models, financial performance, governance, and workforce implications
• Experience advising senior executives and leadership teams on organization design, workforce transformation, leadership, talent, and culture
• Proven ability to lead through influence across HR Business Partners, HR Care, Talent Acquisition, Total Rewards, People & Culture, workforce planning, employee relations, and HR operations
• A track record of translating business priorities into focused people strategies and delivering practical, measurable outcomes
• Strong experience in strategic workforce planning, talent management, succession planning, leadership development, organization design, and complex change
• Strong business and financial acumen, with the ability to connect people and organization decisions to business outcomes
• Sound judgment and analytical capability, using evidence and structured thinking to prioritize, make balanced decisions, and measure impact
• Excellent communication, coaching, and stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to build trust, challenge constructively, and align diverse stakeholders without relying on hierarchy
• Effectiveness across countries, cultures, and functions, with respect for local requirements and different perspectives
• Curiosity, pragmatism, adaptability, and composure in a fast-changing environment
• Graduate degree or equivalent professional qualification preferred
• International experience preferred
• Experience supporting global Finance or enterprise-function transformations preferred
• Successful candidate must be able to work with controlled technology in accordance with US export control law

• medical insurance
• dental insurance
• vision insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan
• life insurance
• long-term and short-term disability insurance
• paid parking/public transportation
• paid time off
• paid sick and safe time