HR Assistant

  • EA First
  • Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
  • Feb 27, 2026
Full time HR / Recruitment

Job Description

Are you a proactive problem solver looking for an opportunity to develop your HR career?

Working with, and learning from, a brilliant HR Manager, you'll be joining at a crucial point as the company enters an exciting phase of growth with this newly created role sitting at the heart of their people function.

Offering a huge amount of variety and great development opportunities, you'll blend HR operations with recruitment support to deliver a seamless, high-quality employee experience, along with building and improving processes along the way.

Excitingly, this role is broad and captures so many elements of HR including:

  • Onboarding
  • Payroll
  • Benefits and wellbeing
  • Employee updates
  • System and process improvement
  • Training & Development
  • Compliance & Policy updates
  • Offboarding

You'll have experience working within a HR role and have knowledge of employment law and HR best practices. You'll have excellent attention to detail and be comfortable managing multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment.

You'll appreciate confidentiality and be a self-starter who is people-focused and collaborative!

Experience supporting with payroll administration or using HiBob and/or Workable would be desirable along with the CIPD Level 3 qualification.

This is a brilliant opportunity to learn and develop within a busy HR role!

Location:

Cambridge with hybrid working (3 days a week in the office)

Hours:

Monday-Friday - Full time with flexibility over start/finish times

Salary:

Excellent salary and benefits on offer

EA First Ltd are acting as an Employment Agency for this permanent vacancy.