People & Culture Onboarding Assistant

We are TC Group, the fastest-growing top 20 accountancy firm in the UK. We’re business advisors and accountants, with over 30 years of experience we’ve honed our skills and developed our service offering to deliver a much wider range of bespoke support and advice to ambitious business owners and their businesses.

We now have an exciting vacancy for a People & Culture Onboarding Assistant in our Whiteley office. The People & Culture Onboarding Assistant plays a key role in supporting TC Group’s growth strategy by managing the HR administration and onboarding activity for newly acquired businesses, including both stand-alone acquisitions and tuck-ins.

The role is responsible for ensuring a smooth, compliant and positive transition of employees into TC Group, acting as a central point of coordination across HR systems, documentation and internal stakeholders. For stand-alone acquisitions, the role will also involve on-site visits post completion across the country to meet employees, answer questions and support engagement. This can be as frequent as two trips per month.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Review and support HR due diligence (HR DD) outputs for new acquisitions, identifying actions, risks and required follow-ups.
• Prepare, update and maintain TC contract templates, ensuring alignment with agreed acquisition terms.
• Personalise contracts and employment documentation for individual employees, ready for issue and completion.
• Coordinate the end-to-end HR onboarding process for acquired employees, ensuring consistency, accuracy and compliance.
• Produce clear, accurate handover lists and onboarding schedules for internal teams, including IT (equipment, system access, email), Finance / Payroll, Compliance and other relevant functions.
• Act as a liaison point to ensure internal teams have the information they need to progress their onboarding tasks efficiently.
• For stand-alone acquisitions, attend site post-completion to meet employees face-to-face, explain HR processes, systems and benefits, answer employee questions and provide reassurance during transition.
• Support positive employee experience during the acquisition process, acting as a professional and approachable TC representative.
• Ensure all onboarding activity is compliant with UK employment law, internal policies and TC Group standards.
• Support the People & Culture team with documentation, audit readiness and record-keeping relating to acquisitions.
• Assist the People & Culture team with any ongoing projects as and when required.

About You:

• Experience of working in an administrative role in a high volume, fast paced environment.
• Experience in HR will be advantageous.
• Good educational background with excellent IT skills.
• Hardworking, self-starter with a strong willingness to learn and grow.
• Ability to pick up new concepts quickly and also change priorities quickly.
• Confidence with formatting documentation and numbers.
• Professional with strong attention to detail skills.
• Ability to work independently and maintain the highest standards of confidentiality.
• Must be an efficient and personable communicator.
• A team player with a positive ‘can do’ attitude.
• Willingness and ability to travel regularly across the UK.

Full Benefits Available:

• Pension scheme.
• Group life assurance x 4 salary.
• Hybrid working - 80% in the office, 20% at home (after initial induction).
• 23 days annual leave.