Payroll and HR Admin Manager, AKUR8
+ Annual Bonus
Office located in Arrondissement, Paris
Next-gen insurance pricing and reserving platform
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Next-gen insurance pricing and reserving platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Annual Bonus
Office located in Arrondissement, Paris
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower actuarial, pricing and reserving experts to make better decisions, faster.
Role
Who you are
- We're looking for innovative and rigorous minds with solid experience in an international environment
- You have 7+ years of professional experience in payroll and HR administration, including at least 2 years in a managerial or team lead role
- You have a Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Payroll, HR, Business Administration, or a related field
- You have experience working in a fast-scaling SaaS or tech company
- You have strong, hands-on expertise in French & International payroll across multiple entities, social declarations, and labor law compliance
- You are comfortable working with external payroll providers, benefits vendors, and accounting partners
- You have experience with payroll and HR tools and are comfortable evaluating and implementing new solutions
- You understand how payroll data flows into financial reporting and can work closely with Finance stakeholders
- You are extremely organized, rigorous, and detail-oriented: accuracy is at the core of everything you do
- You are empathetic, discreet, and trustworthy: you handle confidential information on a daily basis and treat it with the utmost reliability
- You have a strong sense of ownership, autonomy, and a natural ability to structure and lead a team through ambiguity and growth
- You have strong organizational skills, to work on several projects simultaneously, work cross-functionally and across time zones with global teams
- You are fully fluent in French and English, both written and spoken, and are comfortable working in a multicultural, international environment
What the job involves
- As Akur8 continues to expand globally, we're looking for a Payroll & HR Admin Manager with a strong expertise in multi-country payroll and HR operations to help improve our operational excellence and compliance across all our entities (France, Canada, USA, UK, Japan, Italy, Germany, Spain and growing)
- You'll join the People team, whose mission it is to build a world-class employee experience, attract and retain top talent, ensure operational rigor across all HR processes, and support Akur8's ambitious international growth
- You’ll report directly to the Chief People Officer
- Your main responsibilities shall be to lead end-to-end payroll operations across multiple geographies, manage and develop a team of two Payroll & HR Admin Officers, and you can expect to contribute to our continuing success by:
- Ensuring payroll accuracy, timeliness, and compliance across our 8 countries (France, USA, Canada, Japan, UK, Italy, Germany and Spain), supporting a fast-growing international team of 240+ employees
- Building scalable, robust HR admin processes that keep pace with our international growth
- Delivering a seamless employee experience through smooth onboarding, offboarding, and day-to-day admin
- In collaboration with our HR team, driving compliance with all employment and labor laws across the full employee lifecycle
- Strengthening the partnership between the People and Finance teams through reliable data flows and reporting
- Serving as the go-to expert and escalation point on all payroll and HR admin matters
- As a Payroll & HR Admin Manager, your typical set of missions includes:
- Manage, coach, and develop two direct reports: a Payroll & HR Admin Officer based in Paris and a Payroll & HR Admin Officer based in Montreal
- Organize workload, set priorities, and ensure consistency of processes across the two offices
- Act as the escalation point for complex or sensitive cases handled by the team
- Own and oversee end-to-end payroll operations for all entities: France (Payfit), USA (Justworks), Canada, Japan, Italy, Germany & UK (external accounting firm)
- Review and validate payroll inputs
- Ensure all social and statutory declarations are filed accurately and on time
- Coordinate with external payroll providers, and benefits vendors across all geographies
- Monitor payroll-related compliance and stay updated on changes in labor law and tax regulations across jurisdictions
- Partner closely with the Finance team to ensure accurate payroll accounting entries and smooth budget monitoring
- Oversee HR admin processes for the full employee lifecycle from onboarding, to offboarding, across all entities
- Ensure data integrity across all HR systems and tools across the full employee lifecycle
- Oversee employee benefits selection and administration across all geographies (health insurance, meal vouchers, retirement, commute benefits, etc.)
- Coordinate with external legal and compliance advisors as needed
- Identify and drive process improvement initiatives to ensure scalability as Akur8 continues to grow
- Support HRIS optimization and data quality initiatives in close collaboration with other members of the People team
- Contribute to internal audits, compliance reviews, and administrative requirements
- Play an active role in Akur8's AI transformation journey within the People team: identify opportunities to leverage AI to automate, simplify and improve payroll and HR admin workflows, and act as a change driver to help your team adopt new AI-powered tools and practices
- As a newcomer, you'll be joining a diverse, highly skilled and motivated team, with a strong Tech DNA, colleagues that are eager to share their knowledge and passion
- We care about strong teamwork and a positive day-to-day environment. The team regularly connects through optional activities such as team lunches, sports, karaoke, or occasional after-work gatherings
Our take
Putting the correct pricing on insurance has always been a challenge for insurers. Pricing too low can decimate profits, but pricing too high is a sure-fire way to drive off customers. Despite this importance of pricing, it has generally remained a human task, and therefore prone to errors and biases.
AKUR8 wants to change this, delivering an AI-based solution that automates pricing modelling for insurers, while maintaining the transparency and control required by regulators. By leveraging machine learning, the platform enhances insurers’ pricing processes, reducing modelling time whilst increasing predictive power.
Recently, AKUR8 has expanded its platform with Rate Repo and Deploy, providing a unified, end-to-end actuarial workflow from model creation to live deployment, and with AKUR8 Discover, integrating AI-driven market and regulatory intelligence from AMatrisk. These tools give insurers a single source of truth for pricing, faster operational deployment, and actionable insights from unstructured filing and competitive data.
Alongside this, the company is backed by some serious funding and a global expansion strategy. And now empowers insurers like AZA, Generalis, cementing its position as a next-generation, end-to-end actuarial platform.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Saint-Georges, Paris, France
Leadership
Samuel Falmagne
(Co-Founder & CEO)Worked at IBM for over 17 years, holding a range of executive roles, and also served as Head of Sales for Shift Technology.
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