HR Operations Specialist (6 Month FTC)

Location: Remote working with occasional visits to the London office

Salary: £40,000

Sector: HR Operations Global Financial Services

Client: Confidential

Our client is a global financial services organisation with a strong international footprint and a reputation for robust governance and operational excellence. The business operates in a fast-paced, highly regulated environment and places significant value on accurate, responsive HR support.

This HR Operations role has been created to provide additional capacity within a busy HR operations function during a period of ongoing activity. The successful candidate will act as a key point of contact for employee lifecycle processes, ensuring a consistent, compliant, and high-quality HR service. This is a hands-on role with real exposure to core HR operations within a complex, global business.

• Acting as the first point of contact for HR-related queries via email, phone, and HR systems, providing timely and accurate responses.
• Managing background and pre-employment checks as part of the onboarding process.
• Supporting the offboarding process, ensuring all leaver activities are completed accurately and on time.
• Processing employee data changes, including personal details, job changes, secondments, and probation confirmations.
• Preparing HR documentation such as employment letters, contractual addendums, and salary review communications using mail merges.
• Handling employment verification requests and external reference checks in line with company policy.

• Proven experience in an HR operations or HR administration role, ideally within financial services or a similarly regulated environment.
• Strong hands-on experience using Workday is essential.
• A solid understanding of employee lifecycle processes, including onboarding, changes, and offboarding.
• High attention to detail, with the ability to manage sensitive personal data confidentially and accurately.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple tasks in a deadline-driven environment.
• Confident communicator, comfortable dealing with employees and stakeholders at all levels.

This opportunity would suit an experienced HR Operations Specialist looking for a well-defined fixed-term contract within a high-quality, global organisation, offering flexibility alongside exposure to a sophisticated HR environment.