HR Assistant

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

👩‍👩‍👧‍👦 Human Resources (HR)

🚫👨‍🎓 No degree required

👻 Ghost score 22%

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Foundation Partners

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11 - 50 employees

💼 Consulting

🎯 Recruiter

Consulting • Recruitment

Foundation Partners is a business consultancy that accelerates growth by improving leadership, talent and culture for startups and high-growth companies. They provide rapid-deployment, bespoke support to build organisational design, people strategy, hiring and retention processes, leadership coaching, and scaling capabilities — including international expansion — aimed at helping companies perform better and grow faster. Their focus is on startups and scale-ups seeking to 'defy the odds' and reach top performance.

📋 Description

• Report to the Head of HR • Prepare monthly payroll inputs for the UK and US, including time-off and pension changes • Build payroll-provider reports in Excel or Google Sheets • Own onboarding end to end after candidate acceptance, including welcome emails, equipment, system access, early check-ins and hiring-manager updates • Maintain accurate data across country-specific HR and payroll platforms and run reports • Administer contractor pre-clearance and contracts, and flag discrepancies • Manage expense reimbursements and coordinate data sharing with Finance • Handle routine US state and city tax registrations and UK administration • Maintain and improve the Notion HR handbook by formatting pages, refreshing content and building new pages • Help run engagement surveys and retreats • Support wider people projects • Spend approximately 50–60% of time on HR operations and 40% on employee experience

🎯 Requirements

• 2–3 years' work experience, ideally including time in HR, recruitment, payroll or a closely related admin role • Strong attention to detail and accuracy with data • Confidence in Excel or Google Sheets • Organised and able to manage several deadlines at once • Clear, friendly communication with colleagues at every level • Genuine interest in HR as a career • Desirable: experience as a recruiting or HR assistant, ideally at a foundation, charity or large nonprofit • Desirable: payroll or accounting experience • Desirable: use of HR or payroll systems such as Deel, Gusto or Paychex • Desirable: experience building tools or automating tasks with AI, especially Claude • Desirable: a degree in HR, business administration or a related subject • Desirable: interest in nonprofit work and the causes supported by the client

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work arrangement • Collaborative international team environment • Opportunity to build a long-term career in people operations • Exposure to UK and US payroll, HR systems, compliance, onboarding and employee experience projects • Opportunity to improve onboarding processes • Opportunity to support engagement surveys and retreats • Professional growth toward HR Manager or People Partner roles