back office

American

noun

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

back office British

noun

1. the administrative and support staff of a financial institution or other business
2. ( as modifier )
  
  back-office operations

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There will be losers in the short-term, primarily companies with tens of thousands of low-skill engineers and data scientists who supply nothing more than low-cost, back office software services.

From Barron's

Among providers of software for the back office, there is Dropbox at just under 13, Open Text at just below 11, and Roper Technologies at just under 23.

From Barron's

Mom was good with numbers and had worked the back office of her family’s clothing business on payroll and accounting.

From The Wall Street Journal

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.”

From The Wall Street Journal

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.

From Literature

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