Compensation and Benefits Specialist

About komoot Komoot is an app that lets you find, plan, and share adventures. Driven by a desire to explore, and powered by the outdoor community’s recommendations, it’s komoot’s mission to inspire great adventures making them accessible to all. And we’re good at what we do: Google and Apple have listed us as one of their Apps of the Year numerous times! Today, with over 25 million users and 200,000 five-star reviews, komoot is well on its way to becoming the most popular app for finding, planning, and sharing adventures worldwide.

Join our fully remote team and change the way people explore!

About the role Komoot currently employs over 100 team members working remotely across Europe, and we’ve big plans for 2022: We want to grow our team by more than 50%! To support this, we are looking for our first Compensation and Benefits specialist to join the People and Organisation Team. As a compensation and benefits specialist, you will be responsible for overseeing, managing, and administering our employees' rewards, perks, and benefits in all the 13+ European countries we currently employ. You will conduct frequent external market analyses and partner closely with the P&O director to design innovative and compelling total rewards packages to attract, motivate, and retain the brightest talent, ensuring internal equity and external competitiveness. You will collaborate with our local payroll providers, investigate and resolve payroll issues, and guarantee compliance with company and regulatory standards. In this role, you will drive the evolution of our benefit proposition in close partnership with our leadership team, recruiting team, and finance, so that each employee can focus on our mission: Changing the way people explore the outdoors and making it accessible to everyone.

Ready for your next adventure?

What you will do - Payroll Management and Processing

• Partner with local payroll providers to process payroll in the 13+ different countries and make recommendations on local benefits.
• Process taxes and payment of employee benefits.
• Ensure compliance with labor, income, and social security laws in each country. - Benefits Program Design and Administration
• Build and design komoot’s total rewards, benefits, and commission payment strategies, as well as manage their successful implementation.
• Establish and implement a quantitative scorecard process for selecting new benefits and evaluating the effectiveness and impact of current benefits programs.
• Partner with the Finance Team to manage and evaluate the cost of all benefits programs to optimize our global benefit plans' cost and performance. - People Support
• Support the delivery of critical people operations processes e.g. relocations (global mobility services), unemployment claims, offboarding, and job information changes including compensation, promotions, and transfers.
• Review employees’ escalated claims issues, resolve discrepancies, identify root causes and work on long-term solutions.
• Lead all internal training, communication, and employee education on current and changing compensation and benefits programs. - Compensation Reviews
• Drive salary calibration processes, annual salary planning, merit increases process, benefits renewal, and other incentive programs to ensure alignment with the company's goals.
• Conduct audits of data/invoices to ensure processes and policies are managed accurately and effectively. - Employee Data Integrity
• Responsible for HRIS content and database, as well as accurate payroll records.
• Take full ownership of team member documentation including contracts, amendments, and all other items pertinent to the team member lifecycle (promotions, terminations, etc.).
• Document, implement, and work to improve upon processes, procedures, and programs relating to the team member lifecycle - conducting regular reviews around optimization and scalability.

Why you will love it

• You’ll have a self-determined job with personal responsibility to move things forward, make impact, shape processes, and choose the tools you need to do your best work.
• You’ll work with a truly inspiring product that brings real-life value to our users and empowers them to explore more of the great outdoors.
• You’ll join an international, fully remote team spread across the whole of Europe.
• Work from anywhere you want (UTC-1 and UTC+3 time zone). Will it be the beach, the mountains, your home, or a co-working space in a busy city center? You choose!
• You’ll travel with us (when safe) to team gatherings in amazing locations several times a year. You can check out this playlist to find out more about how we stay close while being remote. (http://bit.ly/39xtIrn)

You will be successful in this position if you

• 5-7 years of relevant experience with European compensation, equity, benefits management, and commissions payments setup.
• Solid understanding of accounting fundamentals and payroll best practices.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills and a track record for planning, doing, and auditing work. Highly detail-driven with an emphasis on accuracy, coupled with the ability to see the broader picture.
• Working knowledge of European legislation, especially in Germany.
• Trustworthy with attention to detail and confidentiality.
• Outstanding organization and ability to prioritize competing priorities.
• Excellent communication skills, ability to communicate across the entire organization.
• Fluent in English.

Curious to find out more about our recruitment process?

• Find out more info here: https://www.komoot.com/jobs-process
• At komoot, we want to make great adventures accessible to everyone. We support diversity and inclusivity within the outdoors and welcome all prospective applicants.
• We have a rolling recruitment process. If this role is online it means it’s still open. We’re accepting applications and actively looking for the perfect candidate. Is it you?

Perks

• 38 days of vacation (including public holidays in your country of residence)
• Dedicated time and budget to spend on classes, events, conferences, boot camps, or books for your curiosity and personal development, you decide!
• Access to generous discounts from leading outdoor and cycling brands and more.
• Flexible working hours and locations.
• 3 all-expenses-paid company gatherings per year.
• Fully covered togetherness trips with your team.
• Reimbursement for co-working space membership or your work from home office.
• The latest devices and equipment to do your best work.

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Salary and compensation

No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to HR and HR jobs that are similar:

$45,000 — $85,000/year

Location

🇪🇺 EU