People & Culture and Finance Lead – DACH in München

People & Culture and Finance Lead – DACH

About the role

You are the People & Culture lead for Fluido across the DACH region and the primary local HR and finance partner for Fluido Germany. This is a highly autonomous role that combines strategic HR leadership, employment law, payroll oversight, compliance, employee relations, and financial administration.

One day, you may be advising the CEO on a sensitive people matter, negotiating a settlement agreement with external counsel, or managing a performance case. Next, you may be reviewing payroll calculations, supporting month-end reporting, coordinating with accountants and payroll providers, preparing employment documentation, or ensuring compliance with German labour law.

You act as a trusted advisor to leadership while also serving as an advocate for employees. You are the main point of contact for all people-related matters across the employee lifecycle and frequently operate at the intersection of HR, finance, legal, and business operations.

What you’ll actually do

Employee Relations, Employment Law & HR Compliance

• Lead employee relations, employment law and compliance matters across the employee lifecycle, including organisational change, performance management and complex case handling.
• Advise leaders on German labour law and people-related risks, balancing legal compliance with business needs.
• Partner with external counsel and in-house legal teams on employment, compliance and litigation matters.
• Draft and review employment-related documentation, including contracts, amendments, compensation arrangements and separation agreements.
• Ensure compliance with statutory requirements, internal policies and HR governance across DACH, while supporting wider European people initiatives.

HR Operations, Payroll & Employee Lifecycle Management

• Own the end-to-end employee lifecycle across the DACH region, ensuring operational excellence, compliance, and a seamless employee experience from onboarding through to offboarding.
• Act as the primary governance lead for payroll, overseeing monthly payroll processes, salary changes, bonuses, benefits, final settlements, and complex employee compensation matters in partnership with external payroll providers.
• Drive HR operations and data integrity across Workday , DATEV , and Salesforce , ensuring accurate employee records, contractual documentation, organizational changes, and workflow management.
• Lead onboarding, offboarding, background screening, leave management, and employee administration processes for employees and subcontractors.
• Serve as the key point of contact between employees, managers, payroll providers, finance, and external stakeholders on HR operational matters.
• Ensure compliance with local labor law requirements, internal governance standards, and audit expectations through robust process ownership and controls.
• Act as the final quality and compliance checkpoint for payroll and employment-related transactions, proactively identifying risks, discrepancies, and opportunities for process improvement.

Finance & Cost Control

• Act as the primary local finance contact for the German entity.
• Coordinate with accountants and Group Finance on month-end activities, audits, statutory filings and ad-hoc financial matters.
• Approve and follow up on employee expenses, ensuring accurate allocations and reimbursements.
• Review financial impacts of headcount changes, severance arrangements, salary increases and restructuring activities.
• Support budgeting exercises, cost transfers and intercompany charging discussions.
• Escalate tax, compliance and reporting matters to relevant finance stakeholders.
• Lead compensation-related initiatives, including salary reviews, promotions and bonus arrangements.
• Own local benefit programmes, including occupational pensions (bAV) and statutory employee benefits.
• Drive readiness for EU Pay Transparency requirements, including pay range development, job architecture and pay-gap analysis.
• Support managers in making equitable and compliant compensation decisions.

Performance, Talent & Culture

• Own and continuously improve the performance management framework and performance culture initiatives.
• Support managers with performance conversations, development planning, retention cases and career progression decisions.
• Manage career frameworks and contribute to organizational capability development.
• Deliver manager guidance and employee communications on people-related topics.

Leadership Partnership

• Serve as a trusted advisor to the CEO and leadership team on confidential employee matters, organisational change and business decisions.
• Provide pragmatic, risk-based recommendations while maintaining strong employee relations.
• Challenge decisions constructively when required and ensure people’s considerations are represented during strategic discussions.
• Lead sensitive communications and change management activities.

HR Technology, Process Transformation & AI

• Drive continuous improvement of HR processes, policies and employee experience through practical solutions, automation and AI-enabled ways of working.
• Leverage HR data and reporting to support decision-making, compliance and workforce planning.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, reduce risk and simplify processes across the employee lifecycle

What you’ll need

• Extensive practical experience in HR, employee relations and German employment law.
• Strong knowledge of payroll administration, compensation, benefits and HR operations.
• Experience working with finance processes, budgeting, payroll costing and external accountants.
• Ability to handle highly sensitive and confidential matters with discretion and sound judgement.
• Business-fluent German and English.
• Confidence working independently in a matrix organisation and navigating complex approval structures.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to influence senior leaders.
• Commercial mindset combined with a people-first approach.
• Curiosity, adaptability and a strong interest in leveraging AI and automation to improve ways of working.
• Experience supporting HR operations and employment matters across multiple European countries would be an advantage.
• Based in the Munich area or able to travel to the Munich office at least twice per week.

What to know before applying

• This role combines HR leadership, employment law, payroll, finance and operational ownership in one position.
• You are the primary point of contact for most people and employment matters within the DACH region.
• The role requires balancing business needs, legal compliance and employee experience, often simultaneously.
• While Fluido operates with an entrepreneurial mindset, many processes require coordination within the broader Infosys ecosystem.
• In return, you gain significant autonomy, direct exposure to executive leadership and the opportunity to shape how people operations are run across the region.

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