Payroll & HR Manager H/F

About Everfield

Everfield buys, develops, and supports the growth of business and specialized software publishers in Europe, giving them the keys to reach the next level. Our mission: to fuel ambition, power growth, and reveal the potential of the European software ecosystem.

The companies within the Everfield ecosystem operate on a decentralized model: they retain their team, their brand, and their offices, and focus on what they do best, developing their products and supporting their clients. Everfield assists them with recruitment and HR, and provides them with access to a team of experts who advise them on the financial and operational aspects of building and growing European B2B SaaS companies. Founded in 2022, Everfield is already present in 10 countries and continues to expand.

Role

As Payroll & HR Manager, you will play a vital role in the smooth running of HR operations within the portfolio companies (under the Syntec agreement). In close collaboration with the European HR Business Partnering team, you will manage HR administration, coordinate payroll, and provide accurate data and reports to support decision-making. You will work with an external payroll provider.

You will be the first point of contact for employees' daily HR questions, ensuring fast, accurate, and compliant HR support. This role is the foundation of effective HR management, allowing leaders and HRBPs to focus on strategic priorities.

Key Responsibilities (non-exhaustive list)

• Payroll: prepare, check, and validate monthly payroll for several entities with the external provider; manage DSN, sick leave, maternity leave, and disability leave, subrogation, relations with CPAM, mutual insurance, and provident fund; update contribution rates and apply Syntec minimums and rules.

• HR Administration: contracts and amendments, absences, employee benefits, personnel files ready for audit.

• Onboarding and Offboarding Management: manage the employee entry and exit cycle from start to finish.

  • Onboarding: DPAE (Declaration Préalable à l'Embauche), employment contract, mutual insurance and provident fund affiliation, information and prevention visit, creation in HRIS and payroll system, coordination of welcome with managers, and probation period monitoring.

  • Offboarding: resignations, conventional terminations (ratification), dismissals, end of probation periods; calculation of notice periods and severance pay according to Syntec, final settlement, work certificate, France Travail certificate, mutual insurance and provident fund portability, return of equipment, and closure of access rights.

• First HR contact point for employees, in French and English.

• Data and Reporting: data reliability in the HRIS (Workday) and reports for HR and Finance teams, in English.

• Support for HRBPs: disciplinary documentation, exit interviews, deployment of HR programs.

What we are looking for (essential)

• Minimum 3 years in French payroll management, including at least 2 years under the Syntec agreement.

• Proficiency in DSN and complex absences (sick, maternity, disability, provident fund).

• Fluent English (C1 minimum): meetings, written exchanges, and reporting in English every week.

• Good knowledge of French labor law.

• Rigor, discretion, and ability to manage multiple entities in parallel.

• Experience with Workday or another international HRIS.

• Experience in a multi-entity environment, in a payroll firm, or in an ESN (IT Services Company).

Location: France (Remote work with occasional travel in France)
Department: Human Resources
Contract Type: Permanent, Full-time

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