Europe Payroll & People Enablement Lead

Neko Health; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 850,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Neko Health seeks a Senior People Operations Partner to own payroll and the employee lifecycle end-to-end for Sweden and Germany, partnering with HRBPs, Talent Acquisition, Rewards, and Finance. You will implement compliant, scalable processes within the Trigger/Approve/Execute model, and build AI-powered tools to reduce manual work.

You will stay ahead of regulatory changes, reconcile data in Workday, and maintain a clean audit trail.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in People Operations, HR Operations, or HR Administration in a fast-growing company.
• Hands-on Swedish payroll and HR/employment operations experience at L3 practitioner level.
• Workday experience, essential to this role.
• Strong knowledge of employment law and payroll practice, and confidence keeping that knowledge current as regulations change.
• A European outlook: you think across markets, not just one.
• A strong sense of ownership: you drive initiative and build scalable improvements.
• Exceptional attention to detail: you reconcile, double-check, and don't let things slip.
• Curious about AI tools and comfortable experimenting with them to remove manual work, even without a technical background.

Responsibilities

• Own payroll and the employee lifecycle end to end for Sweden and Germany, coordinating with local providers on the published cutoff schedule.
• Track and act on compliance and statutory updates across both markets before they become a problem.
• Reconcile payroll inputs and outputs against Workday, catching discrepancies before payday, not after.
• Own day-to-day administration of onboarding, offboarding, employee changes, and mobility cases across Sweden and Germany.
• Coordinate right-to-work checks, relocation logistics, and entity/contract implications with HRBPs.
• Execute approved Workday data changes, maintaining accurate records and a clean audit trail.
• Build, document, and maintain scalable operating procedures and playbooks for Sweden and Germany, replacing manual workarounds with structured process that scales as Neko scales.
• Build your own AI-powered tools and automations, trackers, checks, dashboards, to remove manual work in payroll, mobility, and Workday, and share them with the team.
• Identify recurring queries and operational inefficiencies, and propose better ways of working, including where HRBP self-serve can take on routine data entry.
• Contribute to the quarterly request-volume audit and SOX-relevant controls.

Skills

People Operations

Payroll

Workday

Employment Law

Documentation

AI tools

Ownership

Attention to detail

Cross-market thinking

Job description

Neko Health seeks a Senior People Operations Partner to own payroll and the employee lifecycle end-to-end for Sweden and Germany, partnering with HRBPs, Talent Acquisition, Rewards, and Finance. You will implement compliant, scalable processes within the Trigger/Approve/Execute model, and build AI-powered tools to reduce manual work.

You will stay ahead of regulatory changes, reconcile data in Workday, and maintain a clean audit trail.