Job Description:

Job information People Assistant from the Company Peel Hunt, this latest People Assistant job vacancy is located in the city London ECM located in the country United Kingdom . This latest job opening is open to job seekers who have the latest education / graduate GCSE . Job Vacancies in this Recruitment field have been opened and published up to the specified time.

Job Responsibility:

About our Company

Peel Hunt are a leading UK investment bank focused on mid-cap and growth companies that puts long-term success above short-term gain, helping good companies succeed and delivering outstanding results. We have three business areas, but we act as one Peel Hunt. Our integrated approach combines expert research and distribution, a range of investment banking services, and an execution services hub that provides liquidity to the UK capital markets.

The Department

The HR department covers a broad range of activities and is responsible for the following;

• Creating, implementing and managing HR and staff policies and procedures.
• The full employee life cycle including sourcing, hiring, induction, performance management, development, retention and the separation of staff.
• Providing the tools for staff to enhance their skills through training and development to add greater value to themselves and increase the impact made to the business.
• Aligning total rewards with business requirements and coordinating and administering compensation and employee benefits.

Role responsibilities

Responsibilities and tasks include, but are not limited to:

References

• Respond to all reference requests (past staff/current staff/regulated).
• Maintain a tracking system that clearly shows when references have been sent so that updated references can be sent as per our regulatory requirements.

Leave of Absences

• Responsible for the processing of leave of absence requests - paternity leave, sabbaticals, parental leave, unpaid leave, jury service etc.

Training & Development

• Book all ad hoc staff training with our training broker including CISI courses which are required prior to individuals becoming regulated staff.
• At month end (from the reports emailed to us by our training broker) upload all training that has been completed into our HR system.
• Work with the HR team to continue to improve our Training and Development offerings and processes.

Performance

• Support HR team with the annual performance appraisal process, responding to any queries and chasing objective completions.

Recruitment & New Joiners

• Support the HR team with elements of the end-to-end recruitment process, including co-ordinating interviews, obtaining necessary approvals and preparing offer documentation including but not limited to employment agreements and offer letters.
• Set up all new staff on the Peel Hunt careers portal and on our screening provider to ensure background screening, criminal record checks and on-boarding documents are all completed and are satisfactory ahead of the new joiner's start date.
• Complete on-boarding for new starters including adding them to our HR system, liaising with Compliance and preparing welcome packs.
• Conduct first day inductions.
• Co-ordinating quarterly company inductions.
• Work with the HR team to continue to improve the overall recruitment and on-boarding processes.
• Co-ordinate with Marketing and send the monthly “our people” email from the HR Mailbox.

General HR

• Support the team with work experience requests (incl. preparing work experience schedules, exit interviews).
• Benefit administration such as the EAP Monthly uploads (Lifeworks/ Help at Hand) and the Roodlane monthly uploads.
• Data entry into relevant HR systems and new joiner on-boarding.
• Support with the graduate and internship programme administration.
• Support HR team in keeping the HR Intranet pages up to date.
• Support with the annual credit checks for cash handlers and annual criminal record checks for senior managers and certified persons.
• Key HR point of contact to support with the holiday and absence tracking system - making changes, adding new joiners, removing leavers and running reports.
• Ensuring all staff payroll changes are updated in the relevant drive / forward files to ensure all variations are accurately captured in a timely manner for payroll processing.
• Respond to any ad-hoc queries from staff.
• Manage all HR archiving.
• GDPR data destruction/retention i.e. check folders every six months and delete/archive anything on N: drive we have had for too long.
• Have an understanding of the regulatory environment, and values and abilities consistent with the FCA conduct rules.

Job Requirements

• Excellent demonstrable organisational skills.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Strong verbal and numerical skills.
• Proactive, self-motivated with a task-orientated approach.
• Demonstrable experience in multi-tasking and prioritising heavy and varied workloads.
• Confident with Microsoft Office applications, in particular Excel & Word.
• Ability to work well within a team.

Keywords : London jobs
Closed Date : 2025-08-28