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About the Role

This is a high-impact position within the People function, reporting directly to the Chief People Officer. You will be the single owner of compensation and benefits at Shine, shaping and delivering the rewards approach that helps us attract, retain and motivate the talent we need to scale: pay philosophy and structures, salary benchmarking, annual review cycles, equity and incentives, benefits and pay transparency. You work closely with the Chief People Officer, Finance, business leaders and People Business Partners to make sure our rewards are competitive, fair and easy to explain, across every country we operate in. You bring a hands-on, build-it-yourself mindset and know when to bring in partners, platforms and expertise to extend your reach.

Responsibilities

Defining and evolving Shine’s compensation philosophy, job architecture and salary bands, so that pay decisions are consistent, fair and grounded in market data
Owning market benchmarking across our locations (France, Germany, Denmark, Poland, Netherlands, Spain and Portugal), selecting and managing salary survey providers and keeping our pay positioning current in a fast-moving fintech market
Designing and running the annual compensation review and bonus cycles end to end: budget modeling with Finance, guidelines and tooling for managers, calibration, communication and post-cycle analysis
Advising on offers, promotions and internal moves, partnering with Talent Acquisition and People Business Partners to protect both competitiveness and internal equity
Leading pay equity analysis and preparing Shine for pay transparency requirements, including the EU Pay Transparency Directive, in partnership with Legal and local counsel
Building clear, simple reward communication for employees and managers, such as total rewards statements, manager toolkits and FAQs, so people understand and trust how they are paid
Using people data to inform decisions: reporting on pay competitiveness, compa-ratios, attrition and cost of compensation, and giving the Chief People Officer and leadership team clear insight and recommendations
Working with Payroll, HRIS and Finance partners to keep processes accurate, auditable and as automated as possible
Using AI to make rewards work faster and smarter, for example for benchmarking analysis, pay equity modeling, manager guidance and employee Q&A, while keeping human judgment, data privacy and fairness at the center of every pay decision

Requirements

Min. 6 years of experience in compensation and benefits, ideally in a scale-up, tech or fintech environment
Comfortable owning the full rewards agenda without a team
Experience designing and running salary bands, job levels and compensation cycles
Ability to explain the reasoning behind compensation decisions to a CEO as easily as to a first-time manager
Confident with data: comfortable building models in Google Sheets, working with benchmarking tools and turning numbers into clear recommendations
Understanding of European pay equity and transparency regulation, or the curiosity and rigor to get up to speed quickly
Trusted, discreet partner who can handle sensitive information and build credibility with leaders, People colleagues and employees alike
Ability to keep things simple, fair and measurable, and choose pragmatic solutions that fit a growing company over heavy processes
Fluent English communication
Curious about AI and already using it in your work, knowing where it adds value in compensation and benefits and where sensitive pay data and decisions need human oversight

Skills

Compensation and benefits
Rewards strategy
Pay philosophy
Job architecture
Salary benchmarking
Compensation review cycles
Equity and incentives
Benefits administration
Pay transparency
Market data analysis
Budget modeling
Offer advising
Promotion advising
Internal move advising
Pay equity analysis
EU Pay Transparency Directive
Reward communication
People data analysis
AI in compensation
Google Sheets
Benchmarking tools

Location

France
Germany
Denmark
Poland
Netherlands
Spain
Portugal

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Minimum 6 years of experience

Benefits

Equity
Incentives

About the Company

Shine is the financial copilot for entrepreneurs and small business owners.
Founded by serial entrepreneurs Rico Andersen and Martin Hegelund, Shine is a leading European fintech unicorn on a mission to restore the joy of running a business, by ending wasted time on financial admin.
Shine offers a connected solution for invoicing, accounting, payroll, business accounts, payments, and financing, meaning business owners can focus their energy on growing a healthy business, not held back by manual admin.
Today we're part of Cegid, a European leader in cloud software for finance and accounting. Together we're building Europe's leading financial copilot for small businesses and their accountants.
Shine already supports more than 400,000 small businesses. As part of Cegid, we now reach over one million small businesses and 15,000 accountants across Europe.
We're a multicultural team working from France, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands, contributing to a wider European network that spans Spain, Portugal.
We make Shine a place where people thrive. From talent acquisition and people partnering to workplace and wellbeing, our mission is to create an environment where everyone can do their best work and feel a sense of belonging – in Paris, Berlin, Copenhagen, Amsterdam and beyond.

Equal Opportunity

We follow the principle of equal treatment to consider all job applicants and do not discriminate based on their gender, sexual orientation, color, racial or ethnic origin, religion, disability, etc. as per applicable law.