Hospitality HR Generalist — Spain: Payroll & Compliance

Urban Italian Group; Madrid; Hybrid; EUR 32,000 - 46,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Shared accommodation

Job summary

Urban Italian Group is expanding in Spain and seeks an HR Generalist to focus on operations, payroll coordination, and compliance with Spanish labour law. The role will evolve to shape employee experience, culture and development across its hospitality brands.

You will partner with General Managers and Operations Managers, manage contracts, onboarding, offboarding, and HR data while ensuring accurate payroll with our external gestoría.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as HR Generalist/HR Operations in hospitality or similar sector.
• Strong knowledge of Spanish labour law and collective agreements.
• Experience coordinating payroll with external providers.
• Fluent in Spanish and English.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day HR operations and administration across the employee lifecycle.
• Coordinate contracts, amendments, onboarding, offboarding, and documentation.
• Support payroll processes with external gestoría to ensure accuracy and timeliness.
• Ensure compliance with Spanish labour law, collective agreements and internal policies.
• Monitor working hours, holidays, absences, and employee records for accuracy.
• Provide HR guidance to General Managers and Operations Managers.
• Handle employee relations, disciplinary procedures and performance management.
• Maintain HR data, prepare reports, and track People metrics.
• Identify improvements to HR processes, systems and ways of working.
• Contribute to employee engagement, culture, and development initiatives as the role evolves.

Skills

HR operations

Payroll coordination

Employee relations

HR data & reporting

Compliance & labour law

Onboarding & offboarding

HR systems

Multibrand hospitality experience

Tools

Skello

HR systems

Job description

Urban Italian Group is expanding in Spain and seeks an HR Generalist to focus on operations, payroll coordination, and compliance with Spanish labour law. The role will evolve to shape employee experience, culture and development across its hospitality brands.

You will partner with General Managers and Operations Managers, manage contracts, onboarding, offboarding, and HR data while ensuring accurate payroll with our external gestoría.