Regional HR Operations Specialist

Job Description

Are you eager to elevate your HR career within an innovative global tech company where your contributions have a tangible impact? Welcome aboard! We're in search of dynamic, meticulous HR enthusiasts eager to help us take the Wolt employee experience to the next level. If you're driven by the challenge of navigating the complexities of HR and aspire to make a meaningful difference in team members’ lives, your search ends here!

The People Team at Wolt consists of about 200 HR, Talent, Tech, Payroll and Talent Acquisition professionals located in Helsinki, Budapest, Copenhagen, Berlin, Tel-Aviv, Athens, Tbilisi, Tokyo and more. We’re a global People function, well-respected by the people and teams that we support and partner with. To reach the next stage in our exciting growth plans, we are now looking for a Regional HR Operations Specialist to join our global People Team, based in Helsinki.

As our Regional HR Operations Specialist you will support our HR operations across Region North, especially in the Baltics and Denmark. Your central focus will be to quickly understand and build on the core HR foundations that are already in place and take ownership of selected HR processes and practices.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Address advanced HR inquiries (Tier 2): Offer expert advice on sophisticated HR queries, supporting Wolt employees across the North Region countries with their nuanced HR needs.
• HR program implementation: Support the execution of targeted HR programs, including compensation reviews and performance appraisals.
• Analytical insight: Utilize HR data to craft insightful analyses and reports, aiding decision-making and enhancing our HR intelligence.
• Navigate employee relations: Manage sensitive employee concerns and grievances, ensuring a fair, respectful, and legally compliant resolution process.
• Compliance mastery: Monitor and help us enforce adherence to labor laws and regulatory standards, safeguarding our organization against legal risks.
• System enhancement and maintenance: Continuously refine our HR tools and platforms for optimal efficiency, particularly Workday, ensuring high data accuracy, integrity and functionality.
• Specialized training initiatives: Design and deliver onboarding and training sessions, focusing on elevating the skills and competencies of our team leads and team members.
• Complex issue resolution: Collaborate closely with People Partners to tackle and resolve high risk HR challenges.
• Support end-to-end employee life cycle processes: Answer HR queries, write employment contracts for non-volume hires, handle data in Workday, and play an active role in monthly payroll-related tasks and management.
• You will be acting as the HR contact person for external payroll.
  
  

Our humble expectations

What makes you the perfect candidate

• Background: People/HR Operations experience ideally in a multi-country, global environment
• Payroll process: Mastering in payroll process development from HR perspective and background in coordinating payroll cooperation with an outsourced payroll provider
• HR passion: A genuine zeal for impacting lives positively through HR.
• Labor law interpretation and working experience: Background in supporting team leads with labor law related issues.
• Service excellence: A commitment to delivering exceptional service experiences.
• Technological affinity: An enthusiasm for digital solutions and HR technology.
• HR knowledge: Solid grounding in HR fundamentals, both through relevant education (i.e. HR, business or similar) and practical experience.
• Process orientation: A love for structured, efficient work processes.
• Learning and growth: A relentless pursuit of HR knowledge and expertise.
• Problem-solving: A proactive approach to overcoming challenges.
• Independence and collaboration: Exceptional at working both autonomously and as part of a team.
• Digital proficiency: Comfortable in a digital-first, interconnected work environment.
• Communication skills: Fluent English abilities, both verbal and written.
  
  

Next Steps

Why you'll love working with us

• Continuous learning: Significant growth in a fast-scaling global tech firm.
• Competitive compensation
• Flexible environment: Embrace a hybrid work model, blending office presence with flexibility.
• Awesome team and colleagues. You will be a part of our People team in Wolt HQ as well as the Region North People team
  
  

If you are excited about working in a high-growth environment, taking ownership, and being part of an extremely ambitious team, then click below to apply and get the conversation going!

You will fit into a truly diverse team across 27 countries - what really matters to us is a caring and welcoming environment where we embrace uniqueness and celebrate diversity. Experience a company culture where we work on eye level, decisions are made quickly and knowledge sharing, as well as mentoring, is on our daily agenda.If you have any further questions about the position, you can turn to:

Paul Smith, Talent Acquisition Partner - [email protected]

Please note that we do not accept applications sent by mail. You should submit your application through our careers website!

About Wolt

Wolt is a technology company that makes it incredibly easy to discover and get the best restaurants, grocery stores and other local shops delivered to home or to the office. Our local commerce platform makes it easy for customers to order whatever they need on one app, for merchants to make additional sales, and for couriers to make meaningful earnings flexibly. To enable this, Wolt develops a wide range of technologies from local commerce platform to retail software and financial solutions, as well as operates its own grocery stores under the brand Wolt Market. Wolt was founded in 2014 and joined forces with DoorDash in 2022. DoorDash operates in 27 countries today, 23 of which are with the Wolt product and brand.

So, why work at Wolt?

At Wolt, We’re About Getting Things Done.

You’ll probably enjoy it here if you like taking ownership, developing yourself and being around friendly, humble and ambitious people.

We work hard to make cities into better places, and it’s pretty cool seeing us grow every week. If you’re passionate about building things that just… work, Wolt might be for you.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

We want to have all sorts of people in our team – people like you and me, and people different from you and me. To be able to work with diverse teammates – when it comes to gender, age, ethnicity, life background, sexual orientation, political views, religion, or any other personal trait – we consciously aim to offer equal opportunity for everyone to work with us. This is because we believe diverse teams make the most thought-through decisions and build things in the most inclusive way.

Join us today to build Wolt together.