HR Operations Specialist

3 Weeks ago • 1 Years + • Human Resource

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Job Description

Rovio is seeking an HR Operations Specialist for a one-year fixed-term contract (parental leave replacement) starting February 2025. This role involves providing day-to-day support to employees and supervisors on employment-related queries, managing the employee lifecycle (onboarding, offboarding, records), and collaborating on HR projects (policy development, HRIS improvements, data management, benefit management). The position requires strong HR administration experience, knowledge of Finnish labor law, excellent communication skills, and proficiency in English. The work is hybrid (2 days/week in the office).
Must have:
  • Solid HR administrative experience
  • Finnish labor law knowledge
  • Employee lifecycle management expertise
  • Excellent communication & collaboration skills
  • Proficiency in English
Good to have:
  • Knowledge of other languages
  • Experience with HRIS systems
  • Project management skills
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The Rovio People Team is a passionate team turning the company strategy into programs and projects focusing on people, organisation, and culture. We drive talent and leadership development, design modern people processes, and provide insightful and effective business HR partnership to Rovio business units. Together with all Rovio people, we are building a mission-driven company and culture that makes us one of the best places to work at.

We are seeking an HR Operations Specialist with motivation to speed up their learning curve by joining a global HR operations team with responsibility to craft and handle policies, processes and programs in 5 countries! This role will affect the every employee experiences of 500+ Rovians and gets to work on a large integration project as well as support the consolidation of several HR programs. 

You will have impact and fun at work by doing:

    • Providing day-to-day on-demand support to our employees and supervisors with all of their employment and people related queries
    • Maintaining and developing the end-to-end employee lifecycle: onboarding, accurate employee records in the HRIS, employment documents, payroll, offboarding etc.
    • Collaborating with experienced HR operations team on development projects (e.g. HR policies and operating procedures, HRIS development, employee data management, benefit management ) and partner with other members from People, IT, Legal, Finance teams
    • Having a steep learning curve and the opportunity to explore HR policies and programs from many different countries while being a part of flat organisation with teams from all around the world

Experience and skills we are looking for:

    • Solid experience in HR administrative work (ideally throughout the whole employee lifecycle) with an understanding on developing employee experience 
    • Ability to maintain confidentiality and handle information with discretion in a high pace environment 
    • Good knowledge of Finnish labour legislations and law
    • Professional English language skills both written and spoken, other relevant languages considered a great asset
    • Knowledge of HR processes and modern standards and passion for further learning and a proactive approach to tasks
    • Customer- and service-oriented with emotional intelligence  and eager to help foster a diverse work environment
    • Good communication and collaborations skills to partner with internal customers and external stakeholders
The position is a one year fixed-term employment (parental leave replacement). The work starts in February 2025. We are working in a hybrid mode (2 days/week at the office), and hope we'll see you in Keilaniemi. Rovio doesn't provide relocation support for the role.

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About The Company

Rovio Entertainment Corporation is a global mobile-first games company that creates, develops and publishes mobile games, which have been downloaded over 5 billion times. Rovio is best known for the global Angry Birds brand, which started as a popular mobile game in 2009, and has since evolved from games to various entertainment, animations and consumer products in brand licensing. Rovio has produced The Angry Birds Movie (2016), and its sequel, The Angry Birds Movie 2 was released in 2019. The company offers multiple mobile games and has eight game studios – one in Espoo (Finland), one in Stockholm (Sweden), one in Copenhagen (Denmark), one in Barcelona (Spain), two in Montreal and one in Toronto (Canada). The studios also include a subsidiary in Izmir (Turkey) called Ruby Games, which was acquired in 2021. Most of the employees are based in Finland where Rovio is headquartered. The company’s shares are listed on the main list of NASDAQ Helsinki stock exchange with the trading code ROVIO. Sega Europe Limited has acquired more than 90 percent of Rovio’s issued and outstanding shares and will delist the company from NASDAQ Helsinki stock exchange as soon as permitted under applicable laws.

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