HR Systems, Data & Compensation Team Lead
Are you looking to have an impact on the daily life of millions of entrepreneurs in France (and tomorrow in Europe)?
Are you looking for a work environment that values trust, proactivity, and autonomy?
Then Pennylane is the right place for you !
Our vision
We aim to become the most beloved financial Operating System of French SMEs and Accounting Firms (and soon, European ones).
We help entrepreneurs rid themselves of time-consuming tasks related to accounting and finance while providing them with access to key financial information to assist in making the best decisions for their business.
About us
Pennylane is one of the fastest growing Fintechs in France (and soon to be in Europe!)
In 6 years of existence, we’ve managed to :
💻 Make ourselves known as a groundbreaking accounting and financial software for small businesses and their accountants
💰 Raise a total of €400 millions, including from Sequoia, the famous fund from the Silicon Valley who invested early in companies like Google, Facebook, Airbnb, Stripe, Paypal and much more...
👨👩👧👦 Grow from 7 cofounders to 1000 happy Pennylaners : we’re now recognized as one of the greatest places to work in France (and also remotely), with a 4.6/5 rating on Glassdoor.
🌍 Build an international environment with more than 25 nationalities, with a strong remote-friendly culture, where 30% of the employees are already working from all parts of Europe
🤝 Earn the trust of thousands of customers and accounting firms and obtain outstanding ratings
🚀 Already more than 1 500,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and over 8000 accounting firms use Pennylane in France!
About the role
Drive AI-powered HR transformation, better employee experiences, and scalable, data-informed compensation practices, with Workday at the core.
We are a fast-growing scale-up in the midst of an exciting international expansion. We are looking for an HR Systems, Data & Compensation Lead to shape the next chapter of our People technology, data, and reward ecosystem.
Your mission is to make HR processes simpler, smarter, fairer, and more scalable. You will improve employee, manager, and People team experiences through reliable systems, actionable data, AI, automation, and well-designed compensation processes.
With Workday as our core HCM platform, you will lead two Workday HRIS Experts, one HR Data Analyst, and one Compensation & Benefits Expert. Working closely with IT, Finance, Payroll, Legal, HR Leadership, and business teams, you will combine product thinking, team leadership, and hands-on delivery to turn business needs into intuitive, secure, and effective solutions.
You will own the roadmap, prioritization, and quality of our HR systems and data solutions, while ensuring that compensation processes are reliable, well-governed, and connected to our People strategy. You will build on the expertise of our Workday and Compensation & Benefits specialists, empowering them to lead their respective domains.
Deep Workday configuration or compensation expertise is a plus, not a prerequisite. We welcome experienced HR systems, People technology, HR operations, or HR transformation leaders who can challenge solution design, connect systems and data, and build strong fluency across HR technology and reward topics.
Key responsibilities
People systems product ownership & user experience
Own the People systems roadmap, balancing user needs, business impact, risk, and team capacity
Understand employee, manager, and HR team pain points through user feedback, journey mapping, support requests, and usage data.
Simplify HR workflows and design intuitive self-service experiences across Workday and connected tools.
Challenge whether a request calls for process simplification, configuration, automation, integration, or a change in user experience.
Lead discovery, solution design, user testing, and adoption.
Measure success through user satisfaction, adoption, time saved, reduced manual work, and improved process quality.
Ensure that compensation-related processes offer a clear and consistent experience for managers, employees, HR teams, and Finance.
Compensation & Benefits operations, systems & governance
Partner with HR Leadership, Finance, Payroll, Legal, and the Compensation & Benefits Expert to translate our reward principles into scalable processes and tools.
Coordinate the operational design and continuous improvement of compensation cycles, including annual reviews, promotions, compensation changes, and other reward processes within scope.
Ensure that compensation data, structures, approvals, and workflows are reliable, secure, auditable, and appropriately reflected in Workday and connected systems.
Improve the manager and HR experience of compensation processes through clear workflows, self-service capabilities, automation, and useful guidance.
Ensure strong coordination between compensation processes, HR data, payroll inputs, Finance reporting, and employee records.
Support the development and maintenance of consistent job, level, compensation, and benefits data structures, in partnership with the relevant domain experts.
Use data to support compensation decisions, workforce planning, compensation cost analysis, and, where relevant, pay equity monitoring.
Partner with the Compensation & Benefits Expert on benchmarking, reward insights, process governance, and the continuous improvement of compensation practices.
Ensure appropriate confidentiality, access controls, segregation of duties, and auditability for compensation data and processes.
AI & automation innovation
Identify and prioritize practical AI and automation opportunities across HR processes, reporting, knowledge access, compensation workflows, and employee and manager support.
Map the AI and automation tools already used at Pennylane and assess how they can complement Workday and the wider HR ecosystem.
Lead hands-on experimentation and delivery, from prototypes and business-case assessment to testing, deployment, and ongoing monitoring.
Evaluate native Workday capabilities, including Workday Extend, alongside integration, workflow automation, and AI-enabled solutions.
Choose tools based on user needs, feasibility, maintainability, security, and business value.
Partner with IT and Security to establish appropriate privacy, access controls, human oversight, and governance before deploying AI-enabled solutions.
Build the team’s capabilities through training, experimentation, documentation, and knowledge sharing.
HR data, analytics & governance
Work with the HR Data Analyst to ensure data quality, consistency, and governance across the HR ecosystem.
Translate stakeholder questions into actionable dashboards, KPIs, and reporting capabilities covering headcount, attrition, workforce planning, compensation, reward costs, and other People priorities.
Align metric definitions and data ownership with HR, Finance, Payroll, and Compensation & Benefits stakeholders.
Make reliable workforce and compensation insights accessible to the right users.
Help stakeholders turn workforce and reward insights into better decisions.
Ensure GDPR compliance and appropriate controls across HR data access, use, and flows.
Establish clear ownership and documentation for key HR and compensation data.
Team leadership & delivery
Manage, mentor, and develop a team of two Workday HRIS Experts, one HR Data Analyst, and one Compensation & Benefits Expert.
Set direction and create clarity across HR systems, data, automation, and compensation priorities.
Empower the Workday specialists to lead detailed configuration and the HR Data Analyst and Compensation & Benefits Expert to lead their respective areas of expertise.
Organize delivery through clear project plans, a transparent backlog, and pragmatic agile sprints.
Balance business-as-usual support, compensation cycles, compliance, release management, and strategic improvements.
Stay hands-on in discovery, solution design, prototyping, delivery coordination, and problem-solving where you add the most value.
Foster documentation and knowledge sharing in Notion.
Develop team capabilities across HR systems, data, automation, AI, compensation operations, and user experience.
Core HRIS ownership - Workday
Own the post-go-live performance and evolution of Workday as our core HCM platform, ensuring reliability, scalability, and adoption.
Translate HR and Compensation & Benefits needs into clear requirements and lead solution design, UAT, change management, deployment, and stabilization with the Workday experts.
Challenge existing workflows and design choices, drawing on specialist expertise and platform best practices.
Oversee support and Workday release management.
Assess new Workday capabilities for their relevance and user value, including capabilities related to Compensation where relevant.
Ensure robust role-based access, data privacy, audit controls, and segregation of duties in partnership with the Workday experts, IT, Security, Finance, Payroll, and Compensation & Benefits stakeholders.
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