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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