HR Administration Specialist

BP PLC; Brussel Hoofdstad; Hybrid; EUR 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Flexible working options

Learning opportunities

Job summary

BP plc in Belgium is seeking a HR Administration Specialist to join the People, Culture & Communications team. The role blends HR administration, employee support, payroll coordination and local employment expertise to deliver a high-quality employee experience in a hybrid work setup.

As the Belgium-based contact for employees and managers, you will manage onboarding, changes, offboarding, payroll data validation and compliance with Belgian employment law, while partnering with HR, Finance and

Qualifications

• Experience in HR administration, employee services, HR operations, payroll coordination or similar role.
• Knowledge of Belgian employment legislation and local HR practices.
• Experience supporting payroll preparation, payroll data validation, or payroll vendor management.

Responsibilities

• Provide HR operations support for Belgium-based employees and managers across onboarding, moves, changes and offboarding.
• Validate payroll data and coordinate with payroll provider to ensure accurate outcomes.
• Respond to HR, benefits, leave and payroll queries as the local HR contact.
• Support compliance with Belgian employment law and local processes.
• Manage HR data and accuracy across HR systems.
• Collaborate with HR, Reward, Finance, Legal and external providers to deliver seamless employee support.
• Contribute to process improvements and projects enhancing employee experience.

Skills

HR operations

Payroll coordination

Belgian employment law

Workday

Stakeholder management

Attention to detail

Customer focus

Independent worker

Tools

Workday

Job description

## HR Administration SpecialistApply: This position is a hybrid of office/remote working: Belgium - Bruxelles: Full time: Posted Today: End Date: November 5, 2026 (14 days left to apply): RQ116745**Entity:**People, Culture & Communications**Job Family Group:**HR Group**Job Description:**Our purpose is to bring together people, energy and markets to power and navigate a changing world. In a time of constant change and possibility we need new talent to pursue commercial opportunities, fuelled by world-class insight and expertise. We’re always striving for more innovative digital solutions, sustainable outcomes and closer collaboration across our company and beyond, and you could be part of that too. ## **About the role:**At bp, our people are at the heart of everything we do. We're looking for a HR Administration Specialist: to join our People & Culture team in Belgium. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys combining HR administration, employee support, payroll coordination, and local employment expertise to deliver a high-quality employee experience.This role is ideal for someone with experience in HR operations, employee services, HR administration, or payroll coordination who enjoys working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment while making a real impact for employees and managers. The role is fundamentally an HR Operations and Local HR Generalist position with payroll coordination responsibilities rather than a payroll processing role. ## What you'll do:As a key point of contact for Belgium-based employees and managers, you'll provide support across the employee lifecycle while helping ensure local compliance and operational excellence. ## Key responsibilities will include:* Fluency in Dutch and English. French language skills would be an advantage* Managing employee lifecycle administration, including onboarding, internal moves, contractual changes, and offboarding.* Supporting payroll preparation activities, validating employee data, and coordinating with our payroll provider to ensure accurate payroll outcomes.* Acting as a trusted local HR contact for employees and managers, responding to HR, benefits, leave, and payroll-related queries.* Supporting compliance with Belgian employment legislation and local processes.* Coordinating employment documentation and employee records.* Managing HR data and ensuring accuracy across HR systems.* Working closely with HR, Reward, Finance, Legal, Employee Relations, and external providers to deliver seamless employee support.* Supporting process improvements, system enhancements, and operational excellence initiatives.* Contributing to projects that enhance the employee experience and strengthen service delivery. ## What we're looking forWe're interested in hearing from people who bring a combination of HR operations knowledge, customer focus, and local expertise.## You'll likely have:* Experience in HR administration, employee services, HR operations, payroll coordination, or a similar role.* Knowledge of Belgian employment legislation and local HR practices.* Experience supporting payroll preparation, payroll data validation, or payroll vendor management.* Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.* Excellent attention to detail and administrative accuracy.* A customer-focused mindset with the ability to build positive working relationships.* The ability to work independently, manage priorities, and deliver high-quality outcomes.* Experience using HR systems such as Workday or similar platforms. ### ***Why join us?***### *At bp, we provide an excellent working environment and employee benefits such as an open and inclusive culture, a great work-life balance, tremendous learning and development opportunities to craft your career path, life and health insurance, medical care package and many others.*### *We support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to crafting an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.*### *There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are significant, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, collaboration spaces in a modern office environment, and others benefits.*### *Reinvent your career as you help our business meet the challenges of the future. Apply now*!**Travel Requirement**Negligible travel should be expected with this role**Relocation Assistance:**This role is not eligible for relocation**Remote Type:**This position is a hybrid of office/remote working**Skills:**Agility core practices, Agility core practices, Analytical Thinking, Collaboration, Communication, Creativity and Innovation, Customer service delivery excellence, Customer Service Design, Data Management, Decision Making, Developing and implementing strategy, Discovered resource estimation and assurance, Employee and labour relations (Inactive), Extract, Global Perspective, Information Security, Leading transformation, Management Reporting, Managing change, Managing strategic partnerships, Measurement and metrics, Organizational Knowledge, Performance and planning, Problem Solving, Project and programme management {+ 5 more}.**Legal Disclaimer:**We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics like race, religion, color, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us. If you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. This may include pre-placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks.**About bp:****People, Culture & Communications**People & culture discovers, empowers and cares for brilliant people, and so can you. Together, we can build and enable our culture, emotionally connected leaders and dynamic teams – and help our company achieve its purpose for people and our planet.Join us and work closely with our business by:• always putting our people first, understanding and responding to their needs, supporting their health, wellbeing and recognising them for great work • hiring and developing talented people and empowering them to progress • enabling an inclusive and agile culture, where our teams thrive and add value • developing emotionally connected leaders who continuously learn, put others first and enable everyone to be at their best • creating energising workplaces that enable collaboration and innovation.