People Operations & Payroll Manager

Summary

Join Pleo's People Platform Team as a People Operations and Payroll Manager to ensure a seamless, compliant, and human employee experience. Lead and mentor a team of specialists, optimizing People Operations and Payroll processes across multiple countries. Oversee accurate and timely payroll processing, maintain data integrity across systems, and ensure compliance with company policies. Prioritize and allocate resources effectively, managing relationships with third-party vendors. This role requires proven experience leading similar teams in a multi-country context and strong knowledge of HRIS platforms, payroll systems, and European labor law.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading People Operations and Payroll teams in a multi-country/entity context
• Strong working knowledge of HRIS platforms, people analytics, and payroll systems
• Passion for scalable processes, and love spotting opportunities to optimise, automate, and streamline
• Strong project management mindset and know how to roll out new tools and workflows with impact
• Obsessed with accuracy, compliance, and process optimisation
• Strong knowledge of European labour and employment law and hands-on practice applying it in day-to-day operations
• Empathetic leader who’s comfortable navigating ambiguity and scaling complexity
• Strong stakeholder skills and working collaboratively across different teams

Responsibilities

• Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and coach a team of People Operations specialists and Payroll Specialists, ensuring that requests are replied on time and with the right level of detail attention
• Process Delivery & Improvement: Own and optimise all People Operations and Payroll processes (onboarding, off-boarding, contract changes, leaves, benefits administration, etc.). Ensure that we continuously improve our people operations & payroll processes to deliver a smooth and people-centric employee experience
• Payroll: Oversee accurate and timely payroll processing across multiple countries, in partnership with Finance and external payroll providers
• Data Integrity: Ensure data integrity across HiBob, Papaya and connected systems, driving automation and efficiency
• Policies: Ensure compliance with company policies, and internal regulations. Assist in the development and enforcement of people-related policies
• 3rd party vendors : Manage the relationship with third-party vendors (eg: payroll, EoR) ensuring strong SLAs and continuous improvement
• Prioritisation & Resource Allocation : Lead efforts in defining clear priorities for the People Operations and Payroll team, ensuring that the team’s resources are allocated effectively to drive key tasks

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working in fast-paced, high-growth environments (fintech/tech a plus)

Benefits

• Your own Pleo card (no more out-of-pocket spending!)
• Lunch is on us for your work days - enjoy catered meals or receive a lunch allowance based on your local office 🍜
• Comprehensive private healthcare - depending on your location, coverage options include Vitality, Alan or Médis
• We offer 25 days of holiday + your public holidays
• For our Team, we offer both hybrid and fully remote working options
• Option to purchase 5 additional days of holiday through a salary sacrifice
• We use MyndUp to give our employees access to free mental health and well-being support with great success so far ❤️‍🩹
• Access to LinkedIn Learning - acquire new skills, stay abreast of industry trends and fuel your personal and professional development continuously
• Paid parental leave - we want to make sure that we're supportive of families and help you feel that you don't have to compromise your family due to work 👶