HR Assistant

HR Assistant
Location:
London

This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious HR Assistant to join a fast-growing tech scale-up and gain hands-on experience across the full employee lifecycle, and support with elevating the employee experience with driving benefits programs and employee engagement initiatives.

Reporting directly to the HR Director
, you’ll support everything from onboarding, contracts and employee changes to payroll, benefits, performance processes and offboarding, while helping keep our HR operations running smoothly.

As part of a lean HR team
, you’ll get broad exposure, real ownership and the chance to make an impact from day one. With plenty of scope to take on more responsibility as the business grows, it’s a great opportunity to accelerate your HR career and progress with the company
.

This role will report into the London-based HR Director. This role requires attendance to the office at least 3 days per week.

• Provide HR administration and coordination across the full employee lifecycle, from onboarding through to offboarding.
• Prepare employment documentation, including contracts, offer letters, employee changes and leaver documentation.
• Coordinate onboarding, pre‑employment checks, inductions, probation periods and offboarding processes.
• Maintain accurate employee records, HR systems and documentation, ensuring confidentiality and data accuracy.
• Act as a first point of contact for day‑to‑day HR queries, escalating more complex matters where appropriate.
• Own data! Generate reports to be shared with the Executive team, look out for trends and think about new ways to track employee experience through the HR data available to you.
• Support payroll and benefits administration by accurately processing and communicating employee changes.
• Coordinate key HR processes, including performance reviews, learning and development activities and employee lifecycle milestones.
• Produce and maintain HR reports, trackers and people data.
• Support the HR Director with day‑to‑day HR operations, projects and employee experience initiatives.
• Help identify and implement improvements to HR processes as the business continues to scale.

If you think you have what it takes for the role and have some, but not all, of the above requirements we would encourage your application.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree with 2.1+
• 1 – 2 years’ experience working in an administrative role, ideally within a HR/People or Talent team.
• Excellent organisational and time management skills.
• Proactive approach to your work.
• Confident working independently.
• Creative problem solver.
• High attention to detail.
• Flexibility and adaptability to changing workloads

• Central London office location and opportunity for international business travel.
• Pension scheme with Aegon, Retire Ready.
• Health insurance with BUPA - all employees are eligible for enrolment for themselves and partners and dependents (if applicable) from Day 1 with Luminance.
• 25 days annual leave plus an additional day for your birthday.
• Life Insurance scheme subsidised by Luminance.
• Paid sabbatical opportunities.
• Enhanced maternity and paternity policies – to support working parents.
• Annual learning and development budget of £2000 per employee to empower our team members to elevate their potential.
• Cycle to Work scheme.
• 25 days of PTO per annum, plus UK public holidays.