HR Intern

Location: Manchester
Working pattern: Hybrid (3 days in the office, 2 days remote)
Salary: £28,300

interactive investor is an award-winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future.

We’ve been helping investors for nearly 30 years. We’ve seen market highs and lows and been resilient throughout. We’re now the UK’s number one flat-fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching £75 billion and over 500,000 customers.

For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for your pensions, ISAs and investments. We offer a wide choice of over 20,000 UK and international investment options, including shares, funds, trusts and ETFs.

We also bring impartial, expert content from our award-winning financial journalists, highly engaged community of investors, and daily newsletters and insights.

Purpose of the role:

Our HR Team play an important role in enabling the business to achieve key objectives by ensuring our people are supported, engaged, and empowered to be at their best.

In this 10-month placement as an HR Intern, you’ll rotate across the HR functions to gain a strong understanding of how the business operates and the key HR processes that support colleagues in their day-to-day lives. You’ll work closely with the team to support colleagues across the employee lifecycle, from hiring through to the leaving process. This is a great opportunity to gain in-depth experience of how HR operates in a fast-paced and driven business.

Key responsibilities/what you’ll do:

• Supporting the HR team to deliver across a broad range of projects and annual cyclical activities, such as benefit renewal, onboarding, payroll, recruitment, and performance review processes
• Maintaining accurate employee records and data collection, such as sickness reporting, new starters, changes to role and terms, leavers, maternity, paternity and leave
• Acting as first point of contact for HR, managing general queries on employee life cycle, lifestyle and benefits received in the HR inbox, and signposting colleagues to available resources
• Supporting data quality and control, using regular checking and reporting, and ensuring processes/checklists are being followed
• Support the Employee Relations (ER) team with ER cases by maintaining trackers, gathering information, and taking detailed notes during ER case meetings
• Support the Organisational Development team with opportunities across Learning & Development, Early Careers, Employee Engagement, and Internal Communications
• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders to ensure consistently high standards of HR support
• Ensure that all work is handled fairly and consistently in compliance with legislation, HR best practice and ii policies

Personal attributes:

STRAIGHT TALKING      |      MOVING WITH SPEED      |       OWNING THE OUTCOME

• Clear communicator
• Strong team player
• Demonstrated passion and drive for delivering the best outcome
• Moving with speed – delivering faster and better
• Decisive and take ownership of outcomes
• Not afraid to challenge and be open to challenges
• Highly self-motivated and logical thinker
• Good attention to detail

Salary: £28,300
Interview dates: April-May 2026
Placement dates: September 2026 to June 2027

Please Note: We will do our utmost efforts to respond to all applicants. However, due to the high volume of applications we're currently receiving, if you haven't been contacted within 30 days of application, please consider your application as unsuccessful.

To apply for this role, you will need:

• To be eligible to work in the UK
• To be over 18 years old as of 1st September 2026
• To be a 2nd year student in a full-time undergraduate degree with an industry placement year, in a subject relevant to this role
• To have achieved a minimum of 104 UCAS points at A-level (grades BCC) or an equivalent qualification (e.g., BTEC DMM)
• Maths and English GCSE (or equivalent) grades A* to C (new grades 9 to 4)

Find out how many points your qualifications are worth using the UCAS Tariff calculator: www.ucas.com/ucas/tariff-calculator

• Group Personal Pension Plan
• Life Assurance and Group Income Protection
• Private Medical Insurance – provided by Bupa
• Staff discounts on our investment products
• Personal & well-being fund – supporting your physical and mental wellness
• Retail discounts – savings at a wide range of high street and online retailers
• Voluntary flexible benefits – tailor your benefits to suit your lifestyle