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.
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 acrossWorkday,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.
Reward, Compensation & Benefits
- 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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