HR Intern

Location: Croydon, UK

Working model: Hybrid (3 days/week in Croydon office)

Contract: 1 year (must hold valid visa for full duration)

What you do

As an HR Intern at Allianz Partners, you will join our dynamic UK & Ireland People & Culture team, supporting around 1,000 colleagues across the region. This is a fantastic opportunity to gain broad HR Generalist experience in a friendly, multicultural, and supportive environment.

You will play a key role in delivering a smooth and scalable HR service, supporting employees and the People & Culture team with operational, administrative, and process‑driven tasks. This role is well‑suited for someone curious about HR, motivated by helping people, and excited to learn in a fast‑paced, tech‑enabled workplace.

Key responsibilities

HR Operations & Employee Support

• Act as the first line of HR support via the HR inbox, intranet content, and online request forms.
• Assist employees with day‑to‑day queries, including internal contracts, onboarding tasks, system access, and password resets.
• Provide second‑line support to the wider HR team on operational matters.

Process Improvement & HR Technology

• Contribute to reviewing, improving, and re‑engineering HR processes to create a scalable and future‑ready service.
• Support optimisation of HR processes within SAP SuccessFactors and help connect processes related to legacy systems.
• Work confidently with data, using it to identify insights, trends, or recommendations.

Collaboration & Team Support

• Work closely with the UK & Ireland People & Culture team of 3 permanent staff and 2 interns, contributing to a positive team culture.
• Participate in end‑to‑end onboarding processes and general HR tasks to ensure excellent service delivery.
• Deliver tasks independently while also collaborating effectively within the team.
• Work effectively in an environment shaped by artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, data analytics and cloud-based tools, using insights responsibly with our standards of data governance, security and ethical use.

What you bring

Skills & Approach

• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to engage with people at all levels.
• Highly organised, able to prioritise tasks effectively, and committed to delivering a high‑quality customer experience.
• Comfortable working with data: collecting it, interpreting it, and using it to support recommendations.
• Tech‑savvy and quick to learn new systems, tools, and processes.
• Curious, proactive, and unafraid to ask questions or challenge constructively.

Mindset & Motivation

• Genuine interest in HR, people, and creating positive employee experiences.
• Empathy, strong collaboration skills, and a mindset focused on doing the right thing for the bigger picture.
• Eagerness to learn and grow, supported by a friendly team that values development.
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.

How We Hire

Allianz Partners does not accept unsolicited CV’s or approaches from agencies. We only work with partners on our approved supplier lists, under contract. Any unsolicited submission will not be considered.

What we offer

Our employees play an integral part in our success as a business.

We appreciate that each of our employees are unique and have unique needs, ambitions and we enjoy being a part of their journey.

We are there to empower and encourage you with your personal and professional development ensuring  that you take control by offering a large variety of courses and targeted development programs. All that in a global environment where international mobility and career progression are encouraged. Caring for your health and wellbeing is key priority for us. This is why we build Work Well programs to providing you with peace of mind and give the flexibility in planning and arranging for a better work-life balance.

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Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us. 

At Allianz, we stand for unity: we believe that a united world is a more prosperous world, and we are dedicated to consistently advocating for equal opportunities for all. And the foundation for this is our inclusive workplace, where people and performance both matter, and nurtures a culture grounded in integrity, fairness, inclusion and trust. 

We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability or sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations. 

Join us. Let's care for tomorrow.