back office

noun

1. any department or office, as a private office or a department of record keeping, that is not usually seen by outsiders.

back office

noun

1. 1. the administrative and support staff of a financial institution or other business

   2. ( as modifier )

      back-office operations

Example Sentences

AI, he worries, forecloses potential careers in banking: “There are back office jobs that pay a lot more money, but if AI is as powerful as they say it is, and I have my doubts, those jobs are going to be gone.”

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He’d spent most of his career, first at Drexel Burnham and then at AIG FP, not as a bond trader but working in the back office.

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He hails Manchester as "hugely successful in positioning itself as an alternative hub for financial services middle and back office".

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The not-for-profit organisation said the intention was to increase the efficiency of "back office" and management positions.

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In the absence of a strong manufacturing sector, these software companies - which made India the world's back office in the 1990s - were the preferred employment option for hundreds of thousands of new IT workers.

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