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We are currently recruiting for an exciting opportunity as an Operations Specialist to join a growing and dynamic team based in Hertfordshire. This role offers the chance to be at the centre of a thriving business, supporting the full lifecycle of order fulfilment, from supplier coordination to client communication and logistics management. The client is renowned for delivering comprehensive end-to-end procurement, supply chain management, logistics and financial solutions. The client boasts a global network, with offices in Europe, America, and Asia.

You will work closely with internal departments and external partners to ensure seamless delivery of goods and services, troubleshoot issues, and keep everything moving swiftly and efficiently. The successful candidate will drive negotiations with third-party service providers that assist with completing a job to the best possible standards. This role is perfect for someone detail-oriented, proactive, and eager to grow within a busy operations environment.

You will be responsible for raising purchase orders through the company's processes, initiating the supply chain by placing orders with suppliers, and ensuring timely order processing. A key part of the role includes investigating and resolving discrepancies raised by clients, suppliers, or internal teams, as well as escalating any ongoing issues to senior management for a swift resolution. This is a role where you will be required to go above and beyond for your clients, so a certain level of professionalism and a customer service mindset will be paramount.

This is an office-based position that is situated in Hertfordshire. Due to the location of the office, this role would be commutable from Hemel Hempstead, Watford, Amersham, St Albans, Beaconsfield, Uxbridge, Barnet, High Wycombe, Borehamwood & Welwyn Garden City. The role offers a generous salary, as well as a yearly discretionary bonus.

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L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers' mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.

L3Harris Technologies is the Trusted Disruptor in the defense industry. With customers' mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

Job Location - London

Job ID - 31470

About this opportunity and L3Harris UK From 11 UK sites, our team of nearly 1,000 people delivers unique capabilities across space, air, land, sea and cyber for military, security and commercial customers across the UK and worldwide.

L3Harris Trenchant is an elite global team of engineers and security researchers charged with building world-class computer security products. Trenchant's expertise is the by-product of the L3Harris acquisition of two highly-regarded information security businesses - Azimuth Security and Linchpin Labs. United under Trenchant, we are a key component of L3Harris' Cyber Division.

We are a trusted, discrete partner furnishing security products, consultancy, training and integration services to allied security, defence and law enforcement agencies.

Our team is seeking a highly motivated and team-oriented Business Operations Specialist for the UK and EU. The Business Operations Specialist role is a combination of an Office Manager with administrative tasking and the will lead the regional facilities, security, and infrastructure operations. This position requires an individual who can manage multiple tasks with precision and reliability. Key qualities for this position include excellent judgment, attention to detail, and a consistent, professional demeanor. The ability to handle confidential information with integrity and discretion is essential.

We value a proactive approach and the ability to work independently while contributing positively as a team player. The ideal candidate will have a proven ability to take initiative, deliver exceptional results, and exceed expectations in a fast-paced environment.

• 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays), increasing with long service and with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days
• Private medical insurance with optional family cover
• Pension scheme of up to 8% employer contribution
• Life Assurance 4x salary (flexible up to 10x)
• Group income protection
• Flexible opt-in extras such as a health care cash plan, dental insurance, gym membership, critical illness cover and cycle to work scheme
• Employee assistance program providing mental health and wellbeing support
• Professional membership reimbursement (discretionary)

The responsibilities of your role will include the following:

• Serve as the office manager for the London Office and provide support as required to Tewkesbury satellite office and remote employees in the UK and EU.
• Serve as the UK Security Officer to support the facility posture and enforce security policies.
• Develop rapport with UK personnel and serve as an advocate, triaging issues and expediting resolution across the full spectrum of business functions.
• Serve as UK/EU administrative lead, providing full-spectrum business support to the team, including travel, expenses and procurement.
• Plan and schedule team building events, lunches/dinners, meetups, conferences, and morale-boosting events.
• Coordinate L3Harris executive leadership visits to UK and other international offices.
• Oversee and maintain accountability for office capital purchases and equipment.

The role requires the following experience and skills:

• 5+ years of experience in office manager or administrative role, excellent organisation and attention to detail.
• Advanced/Expert in Microsoft Office Suite (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and Outlook). Ability to generate pivot tables in Excel, present complex data, and summarise needs/challenges.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a strong focus on customer service.
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Ability to manage multiple competing priorities effectively.
• Proficient in financial management, including vendor management, spend forecasting, and purchase order processes.
• Ability to travel to Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire site 1-2 times per month to support customer demos and employee engagement initiatives.
• Experience managing multiple sites/facilities (desirable, not essential)
• Experience with cost reporting and management systems

Due to the nature of our work many our roles require a UK nationality and the ability to obtain a security clearance. Applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment must meet the requirement of right to work in the UK and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information and will be subject to government security checks.

L3Harris Technologies is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination and offers equal opportunities for all. Applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, and marriage and civil partnerships.

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Posted 12-Dec-2025

Service line GWS Segment

Role type Full-time

Areas of Interest People/Human Resources

Location(s) London - England - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Payroll Operations Specialist

Ensure the accurate and timely processing, validation, and administration of payroll data for the UK & Ireland business, supporting an employee population of over 17,000. This role provides flexible support across data entry, validation, and administrative functions, acting as a subject matter expert on payroll systems and processes, and serving as a key contact for payroll queries and projects.

• Payroll Data Entry & Validation: Collate, input, and validate all payroll data into the outsourced payroll system (e.g., Dayforce) via uploads and quick entry screens.
• Perform manual payroll calculations, ensuring compliance with business policies and statutory legislation.
• Reconcile payroll reports daily, up to final calculation, and validate integration files via system reports.
• Maintain accurate records for data audit purposes and ensure all relevant controls (including SOX) are performed.
• Process Management & Collaboration: Ensure all data input and validation is completed within payroll deadlines and business cut-offs.
• Work collaboratively with other Specialists to proactively manage data errors, highlight issues to relevant data owners, and ensure timely corrections.
• Provide flexible cover for holidays and absences within the payroll teams.
• Collect payroll data from all sources and compile reports to meet statutory requirements.
• Customer Service & Query Resolution: Act as the first point of contact for internal and external payroll-related queries, triaging and allocating cases via the case management system.
• Support business projects requiring payroll input or information, and provide subject matter expertise as needed.
• System & Process Improvement: Act as a system champion (e.g., Dayforce), attending training, supporting functional testing for enhancements or upgrades, and identifying training needs within the team.
• Support year-end activities (e.g., P11d's) and other payroll-related projects as required.

• Experience working within complex payroll departments managing multiple payrolls with varying terms and conditions.
• Proven track record of high-volume payroll data input and validation.
• Experience completing manual payroll calculations and working to strict deadlines and cut-offs.
• Exposure to HR Shared Services environments and working under pressure with the ability to prioritise workloads.
• Excellent understanding of payroll and people processes.

CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE:CBRE), a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company headquartered in Dallas, is the world's largest commercial real estate services and investment firm (based on 2024 revenue). The company has more than 140,000 employees (including Turner & Townsend employees) serving clients in more than 100 countries. CBRE serves clients through four business segments: Advisory (leasing, sales, debt origination, mortgage serving, valuations); Building Operations & Experience (facilities management, property management, flex space & experience); Project Management (program management, project management, cost consulting); Real Estate Investments (investment management, development). Please visit our website at Values in Hiring

At CBRE, we are committed to fostering a culture where everyone feels they belong. We value diverse perspectives and experiences, and we welcome all applications.

CBRE, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity and  Affirmative Action Employer (Women/Minorities/Persons with Disabilities/US Veterans)

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We are seeking a junior-to-mid-level Legal Operations Specialist to support a leading technology company on a short-term contract. This role is ideal for someone with strong organisational skills, hands‑on legal ops experience, and a keen interest in process optimisation and legal technology.

Duration: 4-5 months contract, starting in Jan

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and support legal operations projects, ensuring effective planning, tracking, and delivery across multiple workstreams.
• Maintain and enhance modern SharePoint sites, including structure, permissions, workflows, and content management.
• Support the administration and optimisation of Ironclad (or other CLM systems), including template updates, workflow improvements, and user support.
• Assist in evaluating and applying AI tools to legal workflows, identifying opportunities to automate and streamline processes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, document processes, and implement operational improvements.
• Where applicable, contribute expertise in Drupal or Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) for content and knowledge management initiatives.
• Prepare project documentation, status reports, and stakeholder updates as needed.

Skills & Experience

• 1–3 years’ experience in legal operations or a closely related function.
• Strong project management capabilities with ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast‑paced environment.
• Working knowledge of SharePoint (modern experience preferred).
• Experience with Ironclad or other Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) platforms.
• Familiarity with implementing or evaluating AI tools within operational workflows.
• Bonus: Experience with Drupal or Adobe Experience Manager (AEM).
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and problem‑solving skills.
• Tech‑savvy mindset with a proactive, detail‑oriented approach.

About Elevate

Elevate provides consulting, technology and services to law departments and law firms across the globe. Headquartered in Los Angeles, our 1,600+ strong team of legal professionals, lawyers, consultants, project managers, and engineers operate across the United States, Europe, UK, and Asia, Hong Kong and Australia.

ElevateFlex, is the flexible resourcing capability within Elevate, we define and support a new flexible career in the legal industry. We match exceptional legal professionals to the evolving needs of our Customers through the curation of a world‑class, global Community of Talent, and advanced, technology‑enabled search. We were recently proud to be assessed in Band 1 of Chamber’s Global Flexible Legal Resourcing category.

Our Vision is a world where legal and business teams achieve incredible outcomes, together.

Equitability and Inclusion are critical to ElevateFlex’s success. As The Law Company, changing the legal business landscape, we know a diverse, inclusive work culture is at the heart of attracting, retaining, and celebrating the industry’s most talented people. We empower our employees to bring their whole selves to work because we know diversity of experience and perspective drive innovation and is simply good business.

As a strong proponent of diversity, equitability, and inclusion, ElevateFlex is committed to hiring diverse candidates from all backgrounds. We invite you to apply to become part of the ElevateFlex Team – help us change the legal business landscape and make a dent in the legal universe.

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Hello, we’re Starling. We built a new kind of bank because we knew technology had the power to help people save, spend and manage their money in a new and transformative way. We’re a fully licensed UK bank with the culture and spirit of a fast‑moving, disruptive tech company. We’re a bank, but better: fairer, easier to use and designed to demystify money for everyone. We employ more than 3,000 people across our London, Southampton, Cardiff and Manchester offices.

The Senior People Operations Specialist will support our efforts to create a world‑class positive experience for our employees from the point of application, right through the employee life cycle. This role will support the People team in completing transactional activities to ensure our systems are accurate and updated within deadlines, creating, implementing and executing comprehensive and effective processes to ensure an impactful employee experience.

You’ll need to be comfortable spinning a lot of plates, we are a fast‑paced business, and we are looking for someone who can manage conflicting priorities.

Responsibilities

• Managing the joiner, mover and leaver processes for all employees, ensuring contractual accuracy, compliance and minimisation of risks associated with these processes
• Knowledge of background screening processes and administering the in‑house background checks in line with the business’s tolerances
• Ensuring candidates have the correct Right to Work documentation and keeping up to date with regulations for Right to Work globally
• Partnering with Workplace Technology to ensure seamless delivery of new hires’ tech, and to support in arranging the return of tech from leavers
• Supporting and/or delivering onboarding sessions
• Responding to a high volume of queries from employees and developing clear frequently asked questions
• Ensuring data in the HRIS and other people systems are accurately updated
• Working with the wider People team on our SMCR processes
• Managing our Employee benefits

Requirements

• 3-5 years experience in a fast paced, high growth People Operations team.
• Demonstrable knowledge of International HR practices and regulations.
• Experience in a Financial Services, or highly regulated environment.
• Experience running and driving improvements in people processes.
• A positive and proactive attitude, with the ability to create order from chaos.
• An ambition to shape and create an efficient team through the implementation of new technology.
• You can demonstrate high attention to detail.
• The confidence to build relationships with candidates, employees, and internal partners.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday (plus take your public holiday allowance whenever works best for you)
• An extra day’s holiday for your birthday
• Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off
• 16 hours paid volunteering time a year
• Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme
• Life insurance at 4x your salary
• Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care. Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton
• Generous family-friendly policies
• Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks
• Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work and Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships

About Us

You may be put off applying for a role because you don't tick every box. Forget that! While we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we're always open to discussion. So, if you're excited about working with us, but aren’t sure if you're 100% there yet, get in touch anyway.

We’re on a mission to radically reshape banking – and that starts with our brilliant team. Whatever came before, we’re proud to bring together people of all backgrounds and experiences who love working together to solve problems.

Starling Bank is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re proud of our ongoing efforts to foster diversity & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment at Starling Bank are considered without regard to race, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

By submitting your application, you agree that Starling Bank may collect your personal data for recruiting and related purposes. Our Privacy Notice explains what personal information we may process, where we may process your personal information, its purposes for processing your personal information, and the rights you can exercise over our use of your personal information.

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The Fisher Investments Institutional Group (FIIG) serves a global client base of diverse investors, including but not limited to: governments, pension funds, foundations and endowments, insurance and financial institutions, and healthcare organizations. As an Institutional Client Operations Specialist, you will have the opportunity to challenge yourself and grow by interacting with members of Senior Management, Research, Investment Ops, Finance and Legal, all while developing expertise surrounding Institutional asset management. You will report to the team leader of Institutional client operations.

You will develop the skills required to drive long-term projects relating to new Institutional clients, Institutional fund vehicles, Institutional client onboarding, and Institutional client service. You will learn nuances of regulatory regimes in over 20 countries, and develop the ability to converse intelligently with legal counsel and compliance officials both internally and externally. We are looking for someone who can build long-term internal and client‑related projects. Within the first year, you will be adding value to our team by serving as subject‑matter expert surrounding Institutional asset management, client onboarding, regulatory complexities, and internal process improvements.

The Day‑to‑Day:

• Be a point of contact for our Institutional client requests, ensuring our clients receive the best service possible
• Coordinate complex reporting requirements for our clients
• Onboard new accounts using the appropriate processes and procedures
• Manage the maintenance of Institutional fund vehicles by coordinating with custodians, internal teams and global regulatory bodies
• Create, develop, document and implement workflows and process improvements to serve the needs of our international institutional investors
• Understand and document the non‑standard operational issues typical of accounts trading in international markets, directed brokerage relationships, and other unique institutional trading operations

Your Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education/experience
• 2-3 years professional experience in the financial services industry
• Familiar with securities, financial markets and institutional account types
• Experience with customer/client service
• Project management experience, ability to adjust workload based on priority, and passion with process improvements
• Professional, responsible, accountable, detail‑oriented and motivated

Why Fisher Investments Europe:

The global Fisher organisation distinguishes itself by putting clients first, providing unmatched service, and taking a personalised approach to investing. You can feel confident knowing we align with our clients’ best interests by using a simple and transparent fee structure and recognised European custodians.

It’s the people that make the Fisher purpose possible, and to help our employees meet their long‑term goals, we offer an array of benefits, including:

• 100% paid premiums for our top‑tier supplemental medical, dental and annual health screening plans for employees and their qualified dependents
• 28 days annual leave, with the ability to purchase up to 3 additional days per year, plus up to 8 paid holidays
• Enhanced maternity pay package with 16 weeks’ top up to full base pay for eligible employees
• $10,000* fertility, hormonal health and family‑forming benefit
• A retirement pension plan, featuring a 9% company contribution of base pay with an additional company match of up to 5% of base pay on personal contributions
• Gym subsidy of up to £50 per month
• Employee Assistance Program and other emotional wellbeing services
• A collaborative working environment that practises ongoing training, educational support and employee appreciation events
• This is an in‑office role. Based on your role, tenure, and performance eligibility you may have the opportunity to participate in our hybrid work from home program. This program is subject to change.

*Employees residing outside of the US will be eligible for the $10,000 equivalent in their local currency.

FISHER INVESTMENTS EUROPE IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

The Sales Operations Specialist is a key role in the UK Consignment team. This role will assist with the coordination and management of the team and their deals.

The role plays a pivotal position in bringing the team together to ensure we are operating as efficiently and effectively as possible. You will be responsible for oversight of your team’s deals, with a key focus on identifying new opportunities and ways of working to enhance team sales.

The role will liaise regularly with the UK Sales Manager , monitoring pipeline health and working closely with consignors to ensure opportunities are maximised.

• Managing the UK teams’ Consignment processes including; Salesforce management and monitoring, task follow up and deal maintenance.
• Identifying prospects and developing a call sheet to be distributed amongst the Consignors.
• Identification of re‑runs, lost enquiries and deals.
• Developing strategies for new consignment sources and opportunities within our existing database.
• Work with Client Services to resolve any post auction issues.
• Assist with valuations where required.
• Seller liaison to support consignors through the sales process.
• Consignment Projects – e.g. High Value Customer identification, process optimisation.

• Proactive and a self starter, you have a proven ability to work independently.
• Open minded and inquisitive – you’re adaptable to what we do and are constantly looking for opportunities for the company to evolve and grow.
• A keen interest in cars of all genres and eras.
• Knowledge and experience of how the collector car market operates.
• Experience influencing and collaborating with a team.
• Impeccable communication skills with the ability to present and influence credibly and effectively.
• CRM knowledge with the ability to analyse sales processes.
• Strong organisational skills
• A background in recruitment or project management.

• 25 days holiday (plus an additional day each year after 2 years tenure).
• Private medical insurance for you and your family with Vitality.
• Company pension contribution.
• The opportunity to attend amazing automotive and watch events.

If you're passionate about cars and culture, and you have the ambition to support buyers and sellers across the UK, then we want you in the driver's seat. Buckle up and join us on this exhilarating ride.

Apply now and let's build the future of The Collecting Group together.

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