Total Rewards Partner (Fintech)

Location: Madrid, Spain; Berlin, Germany; or Porto, Portugal

Company

European fintech company providing connected invoicing, accounting, payroll, business accounts, payments, and financing solutions for small businesses and accountants.

What you will do

• Define and evolve compensation philosophy, job architecture, salary bands, and pay positioning across European locations.
• Own market benchmarking, salary survey providers, and compensation data for France, Germany, Denmark, Poland, the Netherlands, Spain, and Portugal.
• Design and run annual compensation review and bonus cycles, including budget modeling, manager guidance, calibration, communication, and post-cycle analysis.
• Advise on offers, promotions, and internal moves while maintaining competitiveness and internal equity.
• Lead pay equity analysis and prepare for EU Pay Transparency Directive requirements with Legal and local counsel.
• Use people data and AI to improve benchmarking, pay equity modeling, reporting, manager guidance, and employee rewards communication while protecting privacy and maintaining human oversight.

Requirements

• At least 6 years of experience in compensation and benefits, ideally in a scale-up, technology, or fintech environment.
• Experience owning salary bands, job levels, compensation cycles, and the full rewards agenda independently.
• Strong data skills, including building models in Google Sheets, using benchmarking tools, and turning analysis into recommendations.
• Understanding of European pay equity and pay transparency regulations, or the ability to learn them quickly.
• Discretion and credibility when working with sensitive compensation information and senior stakeholders.
• Fluent English is required.

Nice to have

• Experience in a scale-up, technology, or fintech company.
• French or another European language.
• Existing experience using AI in compensation and benefits work.

Culture & Benefits

• People-focused role within a multicultural European organization.
• Collaboration with the Chief People Officer, Finance, Legal, Payroll, HRIS, business leaders, and People Business Partners.
• Focus on simple, fair, measurable, and pragmatic rewards practices.
• Equal-opportunity employment based on the principle of equal treatment.

Hiring process

• 30-minute introductory call with the Director of Talent Acquisition.
• 45-minute interview with the Chief People Officer.
• 45-minute business case presentation, followed by a team introduction and soft-skills interview.