People Operations Specialist

In 2018, Bitvavo launched the first version of its digital assets trading platform, to bridge the gap between traditional currencies and digital assets. By offering transparent fees, a wide range of assets and an easy to use platform, Bitvavo is making the currency of the future accessible for everyone.

At Bitvavo, we believe that exceptional employee experiences fuel high performing teams and bold company growth. As a People Operations Specialist, you will be the day to day engine behind the employee lifecycle across our pan European, multi entity setup, supporting everything from onboarding to offboarding, and keeping our core HR processes running accurately and smoothly.

You will bring structure and reliability to high volume operational work, while building deep expertise across our European entities. This is a strong next step for someone who has moved past the basics of HR administration and is ready to take real ownership of processes, with support close at hand as you grow.

Responsibilities

• Act as the first point of contact for employee inquiries, managing and resolving requests through our ticketing system within defined SLAs, and support benefits administration and documentation updates
• Provide day to day support across the employee lifecycle, including onboarding, offboarding, contracts, benefits, visas, leaves and data changes, across our multi entity setup
• Input and validate employee data in Personio, supporting accurate and up to date digital employee files across our entities
• Prepare basic payroll mutations, such as salary changes, allowances, deductions and leave requests, and support the payroll accuracy process
• Coordinate onboarding and offboarding tasks end to end, ensuring a smooth and unified experience for new hires and leavers
• Assist in creating and maintaining People Ops documentation, templates and checklists, and help spot opportunities to streamline manual steps in the processes you run
• Maintain data accuracy and contribute to monthly reporting
• Escalate non standard, high risk or complex issues to the Team Lead with clear context
• Build growing knowledge of People Ops processes, compliance requirements across our entities, and HRIS capabilities
• Collaborate closely with People Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, managers and other business stakeholders to provide high quality operational support

Requirements

• At least 3 years of experience in a People Operations or HR Generalist role, including a mandatory minimum of 2 years of experience in the Dutch market with Dutch labour law. Ideally gained in a fast paced, tech or scale-up environment
• We are not able to consider candidates without this experience.
• You are reliable, detail oriented, and genuinely care about getting things right for the people you support.
• You are comfortable owning recurring processes end to end, but you also know when something is outside the standard playbook, and loop in your Team Lead with the context they need to make fast decisions.
• Comfortable managing administrative processes across multiple entities
• Strong prioritization and attention to detail, able to handle multiple open threads at once without losing accuracy
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
• Nice to have: Exposure to HR practices in other European countries
• Nice to have: Experience with HRIS systems, EOR services or ticketing systems

Location

This role is based in Amsterdam. Relocation is not available for this position, and we are only considering candidates who are currently residing in the Netherlands.

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