People Business Partner

About HR at Ageras

At Ageras, we’re redefining how we support small businesses and entrepreneurs. Our seamless tools for accounting, invoicing, and professional accounts help them save time and simplify daily operations, enabling them to focus on growing their business.

Our goal is to become the best friend of every small entrepreneur across Europe. 💚

Ageras’ journey has been unique and inspiring, especially from an HR perspective. The company has grown through the merging of several European businesses, uniting top fintechs like Shine (🇫🇷), Kontist (🇩🇪), Tellow (🇳🇱), and more. Today, we are a team of nearly 500 people working together from Paris, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and Berlin.

In this context, HR plays a key role in shaping Ageras’ strategy. Our mission is to design processes that ensure the best possible experience for employees across all countries while respecting local regulatory nuances and the unique aspects of each culture.

Our HR team consists of 21 members across various roles, including 4 HRBPs. At Ageras, being an HRBP means acting as the trusted partner for around 100 employees and 20 managers per HRBP, supporting them in their day-to-day work, while also driving innovative and international HR policies.

Today, we’re looking for a HRBP who will have the unique opportunity to work in an international context, to support managers and team members within a defined scope. This role is available either in our Berlin or Paris office.

✨ Your Role as HRBP

• As a true business partner, you’ll be deeply embedded with the teams you support, understanding their missions, challenges, day-to-day operations, and goals.
• Establish regular rituals with managers and employees to build trust and become their go-to HR contact.
• Ensure that Ageras’ values are reflected in our management culture. Advice managers on compliance with local labour law.
• Support managers in team reviews (1-on-1s, goal setting, performance reviews, potential disciplinary actions, etc.).
• Contribute to team organizational design when needed, support internal mobility, and help managers identify potential risks and solutions.
• Collaborate with the Payroll, HR admin, recruitment teams and office managers to coordinate HR operations for your teams and maintain high-quality HR data in our HRIS.

✨ Skills and Qualities We’re looking For

• You have 5 years of experience in a growing startup or an international company
• You possess excellent verbal and written communication skills and can build strong, trusting relationships with employees.
• You are known for your empathy: you have a deep understanding of complex situations and always make time for those you work with.
• You are pragmatic and enjoy understanding the business challenges of the company you work for.
• You are proficient with collaborative tools like Slack, Notion, Intercom, or similar.
• You have experience in HR with a french-speaking and·or german-speaking population and are familiar with the specifics of French and·or German labor law.
• You are fluent in French or German and English.

✨ Our Recruitment Process

1️⃣ A first screening call

2️⃣ A second interview (45 minutes) with Imke (Chief People & Culture Officer) and Laura (People Business Partner)

3️⃣ A personality test to complete at home, followed by a meeting (45 min) with the HRBP team to get to know your future colleagues who could answer any questions you would have about the job day-to-day