Please note, this role is a fixed term contract for a period of 12 months to cover secondment within the team.

What you'll be doing

• Keeping our HR system (Cascade) accurate and up to date.
• Preparing contracts, change letters, and HR reports.
• Supporting the full employee lifecycle — from offers and onboarding through to offboarding.
• Supporting monthly payroll administration, including preparing and validating data, managing deadlines, and acting as a key liaison with Payroll.
• Maintaining accurate people data and producing regular and ad‑hoc reports to support audits and wider people insights.
• Coordinating employee benefits administration, including starters, leavers, changes, and responding to benefit-related queries.
• Managing invoices and raising POs through NetSuite.
• Building great relationships across our UK offices.
• Being the friendly first point of contact via our People inbox.
• Getting involved in continuous improvement initiatives and wider people projects.
• Keeping an eye on costs and suggesting smarter, more efficient ways of working.

Your Experience

• Previous experience in HR administration or coordination, ideally with exposure to payroll preparation and benefits processes.
• CIPD Level 3 is a bonus — but not a dealbreaker.
• Confidence using HR systems (Cascade experience is a plus).
• Strong attention to detail with experience managing, maintaining and validating people data.
• Experience of producing HR reports and supporting data requests for audits and internal stakeholders.
• Comfortable working with payroll data and employee benefits administration.
• Digitally savvy, with strong Microsoft 365 skills.
• Clear communicator who’s comfortable supporting colleagues at all levels.
• Highly organised with a love of process and accuracy.
• Calm under pressure and able to juggle multiple priorities.
• Trusted to handle sensitive and confidential information with care and discretion.
• A proactive team player with a practical, can‑do attitude.
• Naturally curious, with a focus on improving processes and driving efficiency.
• Confident in providing polite, constructive challenge to maintain standards and deliver the right outcomes.