People Assistant

Puma Capital Group are looking for a People Assistant to join our People team in London.

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly organised and proactive individual to join our passionate People team. Within this role, you will support our Chief People Officer, Tarinee Pandey, and the broader People team. You’ll be a trusted gatekeeper and calm centre who plans ahead, protects time intelligently, and keeps a busy, back‑to‑back diary running smoothly, while also delivering reliable, high‑quality People administration across the employee lifecycle.

This role will suit someone who takes genuine pride in excellent administration, cares about getting the details right, and thrives in a fast-moving, professional environment. The role is a 50/50 split between Executive support and wider People administration and operations.

Part of the founding team of Puma Capital Group, Tarinee has played an integral role in building one of the UK’s Best Workplaces (medium size). With a passion and drive to deliver meaningful change for all things people and culture related including diversity, equity and inclusion, Tarinee won EDI Champion of the Year at Property Week’s Inspiring Women in Property Awards 2024 and was a finalist HR Director (2025) in the HR Excellence Awards.

In addition, Tarinee is committed to working with leaders and founders (both within our business and externally) to ensure they get the best out of their teams and themselves to support personal and commercial growth. Tarinee has a Psychology degree from Warwick University plus an MA in Personnel and Development from the University of Westminster. She is a Fellow of both the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (FCIPD) and the Learning and Performance Institute with over 25 years of HR and recruitment experience (UK and International) and a qualified coach.

• Extensive diary management and administrative support for the Chief People Officer, consistently providing clear and concise updates
• Scheduling meetings and arranging travel and restaurant requirements, including but not limited to meetings with Puma’s Board and senior leadership, internal and external meetings
• React quickly to changing priorities, same‑day requests, and urgent meeting reshuffles
• Proactively prepare for CPOs day, printing relevant documentation and highlighting key information
• Build strong working relationships with internal assistants to coordinate multi‑stakeholder meetings involving the Board and senior leadership, and to ensure effective absence cover
• Provide support and general administration including creating, editing, and formatting documents and presentations for regular monthly, quarterly and ad hoc meetings
• Arranging for the signing and circulation of documents, and invoice processing
• Prepare and submit monthly expense reports

• Coordinate end‑to‑end onboarding including documentation, background checks, IT setup, 100‑day onboarding plans, and scheduling induction meetings
• Coordination of induction and training sessions for new joiners, as well as training requirements across the business, including arranging equipment, welcoming facilitators, and coordinating feedback
• Manage the training inbox, responding to queries in a timely manner
• Ensure the People team events calendar is kept up to date and diarise all relevant reminders in the People teams calendars, supporting coordination and scheduling of events and initiatives
• Support with maintaining accurate data in HiBob and employee files, ensuring timely processing across the full employee lifecycle (joiners, movers, leavers)
• Ad hoc support for wider People related activities e.g. drafting standard employee letters, benefits administration, setting up interviews and case study assessments for recruitment processes

• Demonstrable administrative experience working in a People or HR function gained within a corporate or professional services environment (financial services knowledge helpful but not essential)
• Experience managing complex diaries, sensitive information, and ambiguity with excellent judgement and discretion
• An anticipatory…