Are you detail-oriented and interested in HR operations, payroll, and employee administration? Do you enjoy working with structured processes and ensuring accuracy in HR data across multiple countries?
At KONE Croatia, we are looking for an HR Operations Specialist to support key HR administrative and payroll processes across Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, and North Macedonia. This role is focused on delivering accurate, timely, and compliant HR operations in close cooperation with external payroll providers and regional stakeholders.
You will play an important role in ensuring smooth monthly payroll processing, maintaining high-quality HR data, and supporting essential employee lifecycle administration across the region.
What You’ll Do
✔️ Prepare and consolidate monthly payroll input for multiple countries
✔️ Coordinate with external payroll providers to ensure accurate and timely payroll processing
✔️ Support payroll-related reporting, tax submissions, and statutory declarations
✔️ Maintain and update employee data in HR systems (e.g. Workday)
✔️ Support onboarding and offboarding administration in line with global processes
✔️ Manage HR documentation and employee records with high accuracy
✔️ Ensure compliance with local labor law and internal HR policies
✔️ Support benefits administration and HR data integrity across countries
✔️ Assist with routine HR reporting and audit requests
✔️ Collaborate with HR and Finance stakeholders across the region
What We’re Looking For
✅ 2–5 years of experience in HR operations, payroll administration, or HR administration
✅ Solid understanding of payroll processes and HR compliance
✅ Experience with HR systems (Workday or similar is an advantage)
✅ Knowledge of labor law is an advantage, especially in multi-country environments
✅ Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business Administration, or related field
✅ Strong attention to detail and high accuracy in data handling
✅ Strong organizational and coordination skills
✅ Fluent in Croatian and English; additional regional languages are an advantage
✅ Structured, reliable, and comfortable working with confidential information
Why Join Us?
🌍 Be part of a global organization with a regional impact
💡 Help shape a modern, inclusive, and people-focused workplace
📈 Enjoy career development, growth opportunities, and cross-functional collaboration
🤝 Work with a supportive, high-trust team that values open communication
🌱 Contribute to meaningful cultural and employee engagement programs across multiple countries
At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.
Read more on https://careers.kone.com/en/
Skills Required
- 2-5 years of experience in HR payroll and operations, internal communications, or related fields
- Good knowledge of labor law and HR practices across different countries
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in HR, Communications, or a related area
- Fluent in Croatian and English; knowledge of other regional languages is an advantage
Kone Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Kone and has not been reviewed or approved by Kone.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive across many roles and markets, with field positions sometimes benefiting from overtime and strong union scales. Feedback suggests base compensation is often a relative positive even when other factors vary.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs, including 401(k) and in some regions pension or annuity structures, are consistently highlighted as strong. Feedback suggests these elements meaningfully enhance the overall package.
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Healthcare Strength — Core health coverage is viewed as comprehensive, commonly including medical, dental, and vision options. Feedback suggests a global well‑being framework and EAP resources further reinforce health-related support.
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What We Do
At KONE, our mission is to improve the flow of urban life. This means understanding urbanization and, together with our partners and customers, helping cities to become better and more sustainable places to live. As a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, KONE provides elevators, escalators and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization to add value to buildings throughout their life cycle. Through more effective People Flow®, we make people's journeys safe, convenient and reliable, in taller, smarter buildings. Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, we operate in more than 60 countries around the world, employ over 60,000 people and serve 550,000 customers. In 2022, KONE had annual sales of EUR 10.9 billion. KONE class B shares are listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd. in Finland.
