HR Advisor (Belgium)

SmartSD; Breda; Remote; EUR 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

13th-month pay

Additional leave days (ADV)

Holiday allowance

Vitality budget

Job summary

SmartSD is a dynamic Netherlands-based company seeking an HR Advisor to own day-to-day HR matters for Belgium while supporting an international team. You will handle onboarding and offboarding, coordinate payroll input, and support benefits administration, ensuring accuracy and compliance with local laws and internal policies.

You’ll drive recruitment activities, maintain HR data, manage absences, and assist with GDPR.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in HR or related field.
• Experience in a similar HR role, ideally in Belgium.
• Fluent Dutch (written and spoken) and good command of French or Spanish (minimum B2) and English.
• Rigorous, well-organized, and reliable with confidential information.
• Proactive, autonomous and responsible.
• Willing to work in a multicultural international environment.
• Knowledge of an HRIS or payroll tool is a plus.

Responsibilities

• HR administration and payroll: onboarding/offboarding, payroll input, liaise with providers, benefits administration, payslip checks.
• Recruitment: publish vacancies, screen candidates, organize interviews, support hiring managers.
• Employee support and compliance: HR data maintenance, absence approvals, GDPR support, labor law monitoring.
• Health and safety administration and sickness absence follow-up.
• Internal initiatives: organize events, team-building, gifts, newsletters.
• International HR collaboration and back-up to colleagues as needed.

Skills

Dutch fluency

English proficient

French/Spanish (B2)

Organizational skills

Discretion/confidentiality

Proactive / autonomous

Team player

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR or related field

Tools

SD Worx

Job description

Are you looking for a varied HR role where you can take ownership, develop your expertise and learn something new every day? Do you enjoy combining practical HR administration with employee contact, recruitment and improving processes? As our HR Advisor, you will be the main point of contact for day-to-day HR matters in Belgium, ensuring that our HR processes run smoothly and comply with applicable legislation and company policies.At the same time, you will be part of a collaborative international team. You will have the opportunity to learn about HR practices and employment regulations in other countries and provide backup to your colleagues depending on workload, priorities and absences. We are looking for someone who is curious, open to learning and happy to share knowledge.

Responsibilities

• HR administration and payroll: Coordinate onboarding and offboarding, collect monthly payroll variables, prepare monthly payroll input, liaise with external payroll providers and support benefits administration, perform first-level checks of payslips and follow up on discrepancies.
• Recruitment: Coordinate recruitment activities, including publishing vacancies, communicating with candidates, organizing interviews and supporting hiring managers throughout the process.
• Employee support and compliance: Provide day-to-day HR support and elevate more complex cases when needed, maintain employee data in HR systems, approve and control absences, expenses on our HR system : Factorial, help with GDPR and local labor law monitoring.
• Health and safety: Support occupational health and safety administration, sickness absence follow-up.
• Internal initiatives: Help organize employee events, team-building, gifts, newsletters and other activities that contribute to employee engagement.
• International HR collaboration: Gradually develop knowledge of HR policies and legislation in other countries and provide backup to colleagues depending on workload, priorities and absences.

What We Are Looking For

• You have previous experience in a similar role, ideally in Belgium, or hold a Bachelor's degree in Human Resources or a related field.
• You speak Dutch fluently (written and spoken) and have a good command of French or Spanish (minimum B2) as well as English.
• You are rigorous, well-organized and reliable: you know how to handle confidential information.
• You are proactive, autonomous and have a sense of responsibility
• You communicate easily, enjoy multicultural environments and are dynamic
• You have a genuine interest in learning about HR policies and employment legislation across different countries.
• You are flexible, enjoy working as part of a small team and are happy to support colleagues when needed.
• Knowledge of an HRIS or payroll tool is a plus (e.g. SD Worx, etc.)

What We Offer

We offer a varied full-time position within an international company with a strong market position and a dynamic working environment. You can expect a competitive salary and attractive additional benefits.

At SmartSD, we believe that working together means enjoying our work, both now and in the future. That's why we offer:

• A competitive salary and attractive additional benefits, including a 13th-month payment, additional leave days (ADV), holiday allowance, a vitality budget and more.
• A dynamic and collaborative working environment.
• The opportunity to actively contribute to the growth of an international company.

Who We Are

SmartSD is a leading distributor of video surveillance, access control, and intrusion and fire detection solutions.

With offices in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain and Portugal, we operate in an international environment. Around 80 colleagues work across various departments at our headquarters in Breda. In total, our organisation employs more than 200 people, whose commitment and expertise make a real difference.