People & Culture Manager Back-Office (HR Operations)

Our purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow. For over 100 years, bp has focused on discovering, developing, and producing oil and gas in the nations where we operate. We are one of the few companies globally that can provide governments and customers with an integrated energy offering. Delivering our strategy sustainably is fundamental to achieving our ambition to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner.

Payroll Management

• Oversee the end-to-end payroll process, ensuring accurate and timely payroll execution in compliance with policies and statutory requirements

• Review payroll data, deductions, benefits, and tax information to ensure accuracy

• Be responsible for the monthly pre-payroll checking and corrections

• Approve the monthly payroll to release the payments

• Manage the overpayments and reclaim process as well as submission of prior tax year adjustments

• Identify and leverage continuous process improvement opportunities

Local Delivery / abscences / benefits

• Lead Local HR Delivery team which is responsible for processes such as employee records management, benefits, absence & reintegration and time off

• Manage employee benefits administration

• Monitor and manage compliance requirements, keeping up to date with changes in legislation

• Ensure up to date LOPs for all processes

Process Improvement, Reporting and other

• Ensure that country-specific process content is aligned with business needs, legislation, fiscal, regulatory rules, best practice and benchmarks

• Identify and implement process improvements to enhance payroll and administrative efficiencies

• Provision of documentation and knowledge share to satisfy audit requirements

• Liaise with cross-functional global and local teams in support of country delivery, provide subject matter expertise to resolve issues

• Be an escalation point of contact between vendor partners and bp

• Generate, analyze, and present payroll and HR metrics to support data-driven decision-making

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration or HR

• Additional courses / qualification on specific legislation, social security, benefits, payroll

• 5+ years HR Services and payroll experience

• Excellent command of English and Dutch

• Proven people management experience

• Sound understanding of HR legislation, social security and benefits in the Netherlands

• Project management skills

• Strong stakeholder management and interpersonal skills

• Strong analytical and organizational skills, attention to detail

• Knowledge of HR systems including time management and payroll (preferably ADP)

• Efficient problem-solver

• Experience in managing remote / global team members is an advantage