HR Associate

Clear Street is modernising the brokerage ecosystem. Founded in 2018, Clear Street is a diversified financial services firm replacing the legacy infrastructure used across capital markets. We started from scratch by building a completely cloud-native clearing and custody system designed for today’s complex, global market. Clear Street’s proprietary prime brokerage platform adds significant efficiency to the market, while focusing on minimising risk, redundancy, and cost for clients. Our goal is to create a single source-of-truth platform for every asset class, in every country, and in any currency.

By combining highly skilled product and engineering talent with seasoned finance professionals, we’re building the essentials to compete in today’s fast-paced markets. Clear Street’s mission is to become a single-source platform that serves a variety of investor types across multiple asset classes on a global scale. The Clear Street UK team is bringing Clear Street’s established equities, options and fixed‑income prime brokerage business to a new market.

We are looking for a proactive and detail‑oriented HR Generalist to join our People team and work closely alongside the Head of International HR. This is a broad, hands‑on role spanning the full employee lifecycle, from recruitment and onboarding through to benefits administration, management information (MI) reporting and the cyclical processes that keep our People function running smoothly.

The ideal candidate will have gained HR experience in a fast‑paced financial services environment, and have strong administrative discipline, excellent attention to detail and a genuine interest in how AI and modern tooling can make People operations more efficient.

• Recruitment & Talent Acquisition: Support end‑to‑end recruitment internationally, including posting roles, screening CVs, coordinating and scheduling interviews and managing candidate communications. Maintain the applicant tracking system and keep candidate records accurate and up to date. Liaise with hiring managers and external recruiters to keep processes moving forward.
• Onboarding & Employee Lifecycle: Own the onboarding experience for new joiners. Administer key lifecycle events including changes to terms, internal moves and offboarding. Maintain accurate, compliant employee records throughout the lifecycle in the HRIS. Act as a friendly first point of contact for employee queries, escalating where appropriate.
• Benefits Administration: Manage the day‑to‑day administration of employee benefits, including enrolments, changes, renewals and provider liaison. Respond to employee benefits queries in a timely manner. Support annual benefits reviews and open enrolment.
• MI & Reporting: Produce regular and ad‑hoc management information. Build and maintain reports and trackers in Excel, ensuring data is accurate and presented clearly for stakeholders. Help interpret trends and surface insights to support decision‑making.
• Yearly & Cyclical Processes: Support annual People processes including performance management, compensation cycles employee and engagement initiatives. Coordinate timelines, communications and documentation to keep cyclical activity on track.
• HR Administration & Operations: Provide high‑quality administrative support across the People function, keeping systems, files, and documentation accurate and well organised. Assist with drafting and reviewing HR policies to ensure they remain up to date and compliant with current employment law. Maintain and improve HR processes, templates and trackers, identifying opportunities to work more efficiently, including through AI and automation tools. Ensure activity is carried out in line with company policy and relevant employment and data‑protection requirements.

Skills required:

• 4-5 years’ experience in an HR, People, or HR administration role.
• Experience gained within the financial services industry.
• Hands‑on recruitment experience across coordination and candidate management.
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills and confidence working with data and producing MI reporting.
• Excellent attention to detail and a high standard of accuracy in all work.
• Strong administrative and organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines.
• Proactive, self‑motivated, and able to take ownership of tasks and processes end‑to‑end.
• Experience supporting employee onboarding and the wider employee lifecycle.
• A degree in a relevant discipline e.g. Human Resources, Business, Psychology, or similar.
• Discretion and good judgement when handling confidential and sensitive information.
• A demonstrable interest in AI and how emerging tools can improve People operations and ways of working.
• Experience administering employee benefits and supporting annual/cyclical HR processes.
• CIPD qualification (or working towards) or equivalent HR study.
• Familiarity with HRIS and applicant tracking systems.

We Offer: At Clear Street, we offer competitive compensation packages, company equity, pension, gender neutral parental leave, and full medical and dental insurance. Our belief has always been that we are better as a business when we are all together in person. As such, we are requiring employees to be in the office a minimum of three days per week. Our top priority is our people. We’re continuously investing in a culture that promotes collaboration. We help each other through challenges and celebrate each other’s successes. We believe that modern workplaces succeed by virtue of having high‑performance workforces that are diverse in ideas, cultures and experiences. We put in the effort to make such a workplace a daily reality and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.