Location: Kruibeke, Belgium  

Work setup: Hybrid (3 days in the office)  

About the role  

Payroll expert with a passion for modern HR? Ready to combine precision, ownership, and HR innovation? We’re looking for an HR Payroll Expert / HR Generalist to strengthen our HR team in Kruibeke.  In this role, you will co-own (mostly international) payroll operations while also helping shape HR projects, digitalization, and smarter ways of working all along the employee experience. If you enjoy taking responsibility, improving processes, and thinking beyond payroll, this role might be exactly what you’re looking for. You’ll join an HR team that believes HR should support the business, make work better for people and aim for frictionless processes.   
 
Expect real ownership, the chance to truly speak your mind and the opportunity to join an ambitious, future forward-thinking team. You’ll work in an environment full of engineers, specialists, and problem solvers - aka people who value accuracy, doing things right, and building things that last. We’d love to hear how you can help us build the next chapter of space together. 

The responsibilities  

Payroll & HR administration:  

•  Support monthly payroll processes in collaboration with your HR colleague and our payroll provider all while ensuring accurate, timely and SOX compliant payroll processing and people data documentation.  

• Guarantee compliance with Belgian social legislation and tax regulations. 

• Support the first point of contact for employees and managers regarding all sorts of people related questions. 

•  Manage HR administration focusing on contracts, healthy strategic balances, accurate financial data, etc. 

•  When necessary, support with onboarding/offboarding, absences, benefits, insurance etc. 

• Implement lessons learned. 

• Handle the necessary reporting to both global company levels and internal reporting. 

International payroll 

• Lead payroll coordination for European employees together with external payroll providers and ensure alignment with local legislation and company policies.  

• Monitor changes in legislation and work with the team to translate them into practical HR processes.  

• Provide the necessary policies to create a functional and competitive structure. 

• HR projects, care for people & process improvement  

Contribute to HR projects all along the employee experience.  

• Support the implementation of digital tools, automation, and HR process improvements.  

• Work closely with HR colleagues and the business to optimize workflows and HR services.  

• Help drive a modern, forward-looking HR approach.  

• Be there for the people and carry out our values. 

Your background 

• Minimum 4 years of experience in Belgian payroll, experience with international or European payroll is a plus. 

• Strong knowledge of Belgian social legislation. 

• Experience in (preferably) a scale-up or (alternatively) at a social secretariat (e.g. SD Worx, Securex, Partena) is a strong plus. If not available, experience working with a social secretariat is also an option. 

• Familiarity with HRIS systems and payroll tools.  

• Strong Excel and data management skills.  

• Fluent in Dutch and English is a must. 

Who you are 

• Looking to join a team where we lift each other up, help each other out and hold each other accountable. 

• A strong team player in the overall framework, while still able to work independently on your own tasks and responsibilities.  

• Accurate, analytical, solution focused and structured.  

• Service-minded with strong communication skills.  

• Curious and proactive with a continuous improvement mindset.  

• Interested in modern HR, digitalization, and automation. 

• Looking to make an impact in a company where change and growth are on the forefront of the agenda. 

• Advocate for open-minded culture and not afraid of changes. 

What your team looks like   

You’ll  join a team of 6 HR/Comms colleagues working together across different HR domains. The team supports around 200 employees and consultants in Belgium, while also collaborating within a larger international group structure and supporting other European entities. 

 
Why join us  

What makes this role unique is the combination of local impact and international exposure. You’ll work in a Belgian team while being part of a growing international organization, where HR plays a central role in supporting expansion across Europe — including setting up and coordinating new payroll structures in different countries. And perhaps most importantly: you’ll work in a company where people take pride in the fact that the technology they build actually ends up in space.