HR Manager, Finland

Are you an experienced HR leader in Finland with a genuine interest in high growth companies? Are you excited at the prospect of managing and scaling a regional HR and Talent Development function in a truly global tech organization? If this sounds like you, then we’d love to chat!

Role background

The People Team at Wolt consists of 200 HR, Talent, Tech, Payroll and Talent Acquisition professionals located in Helsinki, Budapest,  Copenhagen, Berlin, Tel-Aviv, Tallinn and Tbilisi. 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 an experienced HR Manager to join our People Team in Finland.

As our HR Manager, Finland you will have holistic ownership of our HR operations at our Finland office. Your central focus will be to quickly audit and build on the core HR foundations that are already in place and take our HR proposition to the next level, with a laser-like focus on building a “best in the world HR” function. You’ll do that against the backdrop of rapid expansion in the country, both in our core business and Wolt Market.

You will ideally have a strong generalist HR background with broad experience across the HR spectrum, but particularly HR operations, talent and business HR. Ideally you will have either led an HR function in Finland or worked as a senior HR Business Partner. Team leadership experience and a genuine passion for the employee experience are essential.

To succeed as our HR Manager Finland you will need to have a “builder” mindset and be driven to work under your own initiative. You need to be completely comfortable rolling up your sleeves, getting stuck in and really driving HR from the front! 

Strategic HR Leadership & Business Partnership

• Lead a team of five HR Operations Specialists and Senior Specialists.
• Lead change initiatives, cross-functional pilots and projects, and People Forum discussions.
• Co-design and execute the HR strategy for Finland.
• Partner with local leadership on short- and long-term people challenges.
• Implement HR programs and policies across organizational design, compensation, benefits, leadership development, mobility, employee relations, and training in partnership with HR Centres of Expertise.
• Own and scale HR policies and practices across Finland.
• Drive a positive employee relations culture.

HR Operations, Compliance & Employee Experience

• Ensure HR compliance and manage employee relations cases while supporting the team.
• Partner with Occupational Health Services and oversee workplace safety and wellbeing practices.
• Provide end-to-end employee lifecycle support, from onboarding to offboarding, in collaboration with the Tier-1 HR Operations Hub.
• Own and support monthly payroll processes and pay-related compliance.
• Ensure accurate employee and payroll data management in Workday and timely payroll inputs.

Skills & Experience Required

• Strong communication skills, with full working fluency in English and Finnish.
• Team leadership experience, with the “know how” to build and nurture a team, and develop effective ways-of-working.
• A solid generalist HR background and multi-year experience leading an HR organisation, focusing especially on the Finnish market.  
• Experience from complex matrix multinational organizations. 
• You have sound, working knowledge of local labor law.
• Strong knowledge of the Finnish legal landscape and statutory requirements when it comes to employment legislation, cooperation with Employee representatives, payroll and statutory reporting.
• Strong stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to lead complex projects from an HR perspective
• A problem-solving and can-do attitude combined with networking skills, assertiveness and the willingness to take initiative.
• You work well in a team, and are completely comfortable collaborating remotely and dynamically using digital tools such as Slack and Zoom.