People Operations Specialist

RELEX Solutions; Helsinki; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 86,000; Full time

Job summary

RELEX Solutions is seeking a hands-on People Operations Specialist to support the Nordics region from Helsinki or Stockholm. You’ll own onboarding-to-offboarding processes, payroll collaboration, and HR policy work, while partnering with country teams in Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway.

You will act as a central point for HR data, payroll input, and employee lifecycle support, ensuring high-quality data and efficient operations across the Nordics environments.

Qualifications

• Extensive People Operations experience in the Nordics, esp. Finland/Sweden, and multi-country/global environments.
• Experience with HR policies creation and development, and with compensation/benefits topics.
• Hands-on payroll cycle experience and accurate payroll input preparation.
• Strong understanding of core people processes and proactive problem solving.
• Excellent organizational skills and effective communication.

Responsibilities

• Full employee life cycle support from onboarding to offboarding and everything in between.
• Support team leads and colleagues with time-off, benefits, compensation and other people topics.
• Responsible for payroll input preparation in cooperation with external payroll vendor.
• HR system (Workday) updates and associated employee data quality management.
• Writing and maintaining people policies, team lead guides and training sessions.
• Handling employee escalation cases with senior colleagues.

Skills

People Operations

Payroll

HR systems (Workday)

Nordics experience

English fluency

Tools

Workday

Job description

Are you an experienced People Operations Specialist with a genuine interest and passion toward the operations side of HR? Do you want to be part of building and scaling our People Operations across the Nordics (Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway), with the autonomy to shape how we work while backed by a truly global People team? This is a hands-on role with plenty of room to improve and modernize our processes — if this sounds like you, then we’d love to chat!

The People team at RELEX currently consists of 50 professionals located in several countries globally, the majority in Helsinki. To reach our growth plans and to ensure we serve our RELEXians to the best possible level, we are now looking for a full-time People Operations Specialist to join our People team in Helsinki, Finland or Stockholm, Sweden and take care of our Nordics region.

As our People Operations Specialist, you’ll be working at the very heart of our People Team, working to support and partner with our countries and functions in a highly engaged environment. You are the first point of contact in HR matters and will be supporting the entire employee lifecycle for our colleagues mainly in Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway, from the very moment they onboard. You take care of HR data management, and you are also the main payroll partner for our external payroll vendor.

What you’ll be doing

• Full employee life cycle support, from onboarding to offboarding and everything in between.
• Supporting our team leads and colleagues with all their people-related topics, as e.g. time-off, benefits, compensation and others.
• Responsible for Payroll input preparation in cooperation with our external payroll vendor.
• HR system (Workday) updates and associated employee data quality management.
• Writing and maintaining people policies, team lead guides and training sessions.
• Handling employee escalation cases together with the support of your senior colleagues.

What you’ll bring to the table

• You have a solid background of People Operations experience in the Nordics (focus countries Finland/Sweden, ideally also Norway and Denmark), preferably also in a multi-country, global environment.
• You have previously worked closely with HR systems, people policies (creation and development), as well as compensation and benefits related topics.
• You have hands‑on experience with the payroll cycle.
• You have strong understanding of all core people processes, with a view of what works and what doesn’t.
• You enjoy taking responsibility and solving problems proactively.
• Excellent organizational skills and can‑do attitude combined with networking skills, assertiveness, and willingness to take initiative.
• Strong problem‑solving and communication skills
• Full working fluency in English Solid background of People Operations experience in the Nordics (Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark), Experience in a multi‑country, global environment, Experience with HR systems and people policies creation/development, Experience with compensation and benefits topics, Hands‑on experience with the payroll cycle, Strong understanding of core people processes, Proactive problem‑solving and responsibility‑taking, Excellent organizational skills and can‑do attitude, Strong communication skills, Full working fluency in English