HR Operations Specialist

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Morocco.

📋 Description

• Prepare, verify, and submit monthly payroll inputs for Morocco, France, Germany, and the UK.

• Process new hires, terminations, salary adjustments, working time modifications, variable pay, absences, and benefits in payroll inputs.

• Ensure compliance with local statutory requirements, including CNSS, AMO, and IR declarations in Morocco, as well as DSN, collective agreements, mutuelle, and prévoyance requirements in France.

• Review payroll outputs and address discrepancies with payroll providers, accountants, Finance, and employees.

• Manage local employee benefits, including enrollments, modifications, and terminations.

• Oversee annual, sickness, maternity, paternity, parental, and other statutory leave.

• Coordinate operational tasks for joiners, movers, and leavers, including contracts, amendments, letters, data modifications, onboarding, offboarding, probation, final pay inputs, and exit documentation.

• Maintain complete, accurate, and audit-ready employee files and F&O data.

• Apply local legislation to employment administration and recognize when specialist advice is necessary.

• Assist HRBPs with documentation, payroll inputs, statutory requirements, and operational follow-through for employee relations and termination cases.

• Serve as the initial point of contact for operational HR inquiries in the relevant countries.

• Provide employees, managers, and HRBPs with precise information, documentation, and practical support in both English and French.

• Monitor statutory deadlines and legislative changes.

• Collaborate with payroll providers, accountants, external advisors, and authorities.

• Document comprehensive country processes, operational calendars, checklists, and controls.

• Identify manual tasks, duplication, gaps, and recurring errors; recommend and support improvements in processes, tools, and automation.

• Perform reconciliations and follow up on missing or inconsistent information.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of four years of hands-on experience in HR Operations or payroll.

• Significant responsibility for independently managing payroll and employment administration across multiple countries.

• Demonstrated practical experience in applying Moroccan and French payroll and employment regulations.

• Strong expertise in at least one of Morocco or France, with the ability to become independently operational in the other.

• Solid understanding of employment legislation and statutory requirements across multiple countries.

• Experience collaborating with external payroll providers, accountants, and advisors.

• Fluent in French and proficient in English, both written and spoken.

• Advanced Excel capabilities for verifying and reconciling payroll and HR data.

• Familiarity with HR systems.

• Ability to work autonomously, prioritize tasks, and make decisions within established limits.

• Exceptional attention to detail and discretion with confidential information.

• Capability to comprehend end-to-end processes, dependencies, and controls, as well as identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, or automate operational tasks.

• International experience, ideally related to Morocco, France, or the UK.

• Experience with Moroccan online declaration platforms, such as Damancom for CNSS and SIMPL for tax.

🏝️ Benefits

• Full-time employment.

• Flexible remote/hybrid work arrangement.

• International, global working environment.

• Professional exposure to Microsoft Dynamics, AI-powered, and cloud-based solutions.

• Opportunities to enhance workflows, tools, and automation.

• Collaboration with HR Operations Lead EMEA, HRBPs, payroll providers, accountants, advisors, and authorities.