About Shine

Shine is the financial copilot for entrepreneurs and small business owners.

Founded by serial entrepreneurs Rico Andersen and Martin Hegelund, Shine is a leading European fintech unicorn on a mission to restore the joy of running a business, by ending wasted time on financial admin. Shine offers a connected solution for invoicing, accounting, payroll, business accounts, payments, and financing, meaning business owners can focus their energy on growing a healthy business, not held back by manual admin.

Part of something bigger
Today we're part of Cegid, a European leader in cloud software for finance and accounting. Together we're building Europe's leading financial copilot for small businesses and their accountants.
Shine already supports more than 400,000 small businesses. As part of Cegid, we now reach over one million small businesses and 15,000 accountants across Europe.
We're a multicultural team working from France, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands, contributing to a wider European network that spans Spain, Portugal and Belgium.

Your hiring experience matters
Just as we respect our customers' time, we respect yours. Your experience with Shine and Cegid should feel simple, transparent and genuinely supportive.
If this sounds like somewhere you want to grow, we'd love to hear from you.

People & Culture team at Shine

At Shine, our People Experience team helps leaders and teams perform at their best while supporting the company through growth and change.

Within the wider People & Culture function, the team brings together People Business Partners, Centers of Excellence, and Workplace & Well-Being to build modern, fair and scalable people practices across the business.

Your Role as a People Operations Manager

We are looking for a People Operations Manager who is a technician at heart. You don’t just "do" HR; you engineer it. As our French entity scales, you will serve as the operational architect of our local people strategy.

This is not a traditional administrative role. You own the full scope of our French HR administration—contracts, onboarding, and offboarding—but you approach this work with the mindset of an engineer. You are the technical owner of our "People Data Fabric," ensuring global systems and local French requirements work in harmony. While our dedicated Payroll and Labor Law teams handle the heavy-lifting of union relations and execution, you ensure the underlying data and processes are seamless, audit-proof, and—most importantly—automated. You are an administrator who is eager to come in, execute the daily grind, and build the automated workflows that allow us to scale without the manual overhead.

📍 Job located in Paris / Madrid / Porto

What you'll be doing:

1. Operational Ownership (The Daily Pulse)

• The Employee Lifecycle: You own the daily operational execution of the employee journey. You draft contracts, run onboarding, and manage offboarding. You are the hands-on owner of these processes.

• "Continuous Refactoring": Every time you draft a contract or offboard an employee, you audit the process. You identify where the friction is, where the manual data entry happens, and you take personal ownership of fixing it.

• System Integrity: Maintain the integrity of our HRIS (HiBob) data, ensuring it flows flawlessly into our downstream systems.

2. Automation & "Zero Manual Work" Mandate

• Tooling & Workflows: Identify manual, repetitive HR tasks and replace them with technical solutions (e.g., automated triggers, smart data flows, or tool integrations).

• Optimizing the Stack: You view processes as living tools. If a process takes three clicks when it could take one, you re-engineer it. You are the champion of "no-manual-data-entry" within our team.

3. Operational Governance & Compliance (The "Bridge")

• The Data Auditor: While you are not processing payroll, you are the final checkpoint for data integrity. You validate variable elements and ensure data consistency so that our Payroll team has clean, error-free inputs every time.

• Proactive Compliance: You act as the technical partner to our Labor Law team. You don't lead the CSE negotiations, but you ensure the team has the accurate data, BDESE reports, and technical documentation required for consultations before they even ask.

• Audit-Ready Operations: You maintain the trackers for French-specific requirements (OETH, Occupational Health certificates, etc.), ensuring our system flags gaps automatically rather than relying on manual monitoring.

What you'll bring:

Requirements

• Experience: 4–6+ years in HR Operations or HR Administration within the French market and relevant exposure to European settings.

• Regulatory Fluency: Deep familiarity with the Syntec Collective Agreement and the French Code du Travail. You understand the mechanics of how they impact data, even if you aren't the lead legal counsel.

• Language: Native/Fluent French (required for legal and administrative accuracy); along with full professional fluency in English. Spanish or Portuguese language skills are a plus.

Mindset

• Administrator/Operator DNA: You have mastered the "basics" of French HR (contracts, employee lifecycle). You know the pain of manual HR work and are motivated to solve it.

• Technical Mindset: You are a technician at heart. You have a high command of Excel/Google Sheets (complex formulas, data cleaning). You have a "builder's" curiosity about automation tools (Zapier, APIs, basic scripting, etc.) and apply them responsibly.

• The "Anti-Manual" Mentality: You find manual data entry painful. You thrive in scaling environments where you are empowered to "clean up" and "build up" as you go.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We follow the principle of equal treatment to consider all job applicants and do not discriminate based on their gender, sexual orientation, colour, racial or ethnic origin, religion, disability, etc. as per applicable law.

Our recruitment process

1️⃣ A 30' first call with Recruiting Partner to get to know you better and share more about Shine.

2️⃣ A 45' interview with a Team Member to discuss your past experiences and the role we are offering.

3️⃣ A 45' business case presentation to highlight your skills and give you a hands-on feel for the role.

4️⃣ A 30' final interview with Hiring Manager