People Operations Associate — HR, Payroll & Systems

Understory; København; On-site; DKK 260,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Understory in Copenhagen is looking for an entry-level HR administrator to help manage our growing team. You will handle onboarding, offboarding, contracts, and data entry, ensuring a smooth employee experience from day one.

You will collect monthly payroll inputs, keep holiday and absence records accurate, and support interview scheduling. We value curiosity, attention to detail, and the ability to improve processes through better systems.

Qualifications

• Are early in your career, for example just out of school or on a sabbatical year.
• Love systems, spreadsheets and figuring out how things work, and get a kick out of making a process faster and smarter.
• Get annoyed when data is wrong or something is done the hard way.
• Follow through, and can keep confidential information to yourself.
• Speak and write English fluently and professionally.

Responsibilities

• Register new colleagues, changes and leavers in our HR system, and keep the data correct.
• Handle contracts, onboarding and offboarding using templates and checklists.
• Collect monthly payroll inputs and send them to our payroll providers.
• Keep holiday and absence registrations in order.
• Help with interview scheduling and review cycles.
• Find the manual, repetitive tasks and figure out how the system can do them instead.

Skills

HR systems

Spreadsheets

Data accuracy

Confidentiality

English fluency

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Early career / sabbatical

Tools

HRIS

Payroll software

Job description

Understory in Copenhagen is looking for an entry-level HR administrator to help manage our growing team. You will handle onboarding, offboarding, contracts, and data entry, ensuring a smooth employee experience from day one.

You will collect monthly payroll inputs, keep holiday and absence records accurate, and support interview scheduling. We value curiosity, attention to detail, and the ability to improve processes through better systems.