Ops partner – maternity cover; FTC

Bath or Edinburgh based – working hybrid with 2/3 days in the office. We travel to other office locations once a quarter to be together as a team for retros and quarterly planning work, and also now and again for business related work when required.

Seccl is the Octopus-owned embedded investment platform that’s on a mission to helping more people to invest – and invest well.

We’re B-Corp certified with an amazing product-market fit, impressive early traction and the potential to transform an outdated industry, for the better. We ve been growing fast and will scale even faster over the next few years.

We’re also proud to be part of Octopus, the £multi billion group that s on a mission to breathe new life into broken industries, through companies like Octopus Energy, Octopus Investments and Octopus Money.

Check out the Seccl website for the latest on our products and our mission to shape the future of investments.

We’re looking for a People ops and experience partner to join our People team at Seccl on a maternity cover contract for around 15 months. We d love for this maternity cover to start some time in April, but are flexible as aiming for a longer lead time to ensure our processes are covered.

Reporting into our Head of people and working closely with our People adviser and the wider business, you’ll play a key role in strengthening our people operations as we scale.

This is an exciting opportunity to take real ownership of the moments that matter across our people lifecycle; from onboarding and reward to systems, policies and engagement - helping us build the foundations for continued growth while keeping our culture at the heart of everything we do.

Our People team is at the centre of shaping what it feels like to work ’re focused on creating a seamless, inclusive and high-trust people experience, supported by strong operational foundations and insight-driven decision making. As we continue to grow, this role will be instrumental in evolving our people processes, embedding scalable ways of working, and delivering key initiatives across engagement, performance, reward and compliance.

If you’re passionate about combining people, process and culture to make a real impact, this is a fantastic time to join us.

• Owning the day-to-day delivery of people operations across the full people lifecycle, including payroll and benefits

• Acting as a trusted point of contact for people queries, providing clear support on policies, systems and processes

• Managing our people systems such as Bamboo
  
  HR, Culture Amp and Pay Fit, ensuring accurate data, smooth workflows and compliant records

• Maintaining and evolving our people SharePoint hub making it a trusted and accessible resource for our people and leaders

• Using people data and feedback to spot trends and deliver insight-driven improvements across onboarding, engagement and retention

• Owning our monthly payroll and benefits, partnering closely with Finance and external providers to ensure everything runs smoothly

• Owning the upkeep of people policies, templates and SMCR-related processes in partnership with our compliance team

• Supporting the delivery of key people programmes such as performance review cycles, engagement surveys, wellbeing initiatives and hybrid ways of working

• You have experience owning people operations across key moments in the people lifecycle

• You are highly organised and enjoy bringing structure, consistency and pace to processes in a scaling environment

• You are confident managing people systems and tools, ensuring accurate data, smooth workflows and a great user experience

• You have a detail-oriented mindset and take pride in delivering compliant, high-quality operational foundations

• You are a fellow process improvement geek, always looking for smarter, smoother ways of working ‘never settling’

• You are people-first in your approach, combining empathy and clear communication when supporting people and leader queries

• You have a data-driven mindset, using people metrics and insights to spot trends and suggest meaningful improvements

• You are comfortable working in a regulated environment and…