HR Officer

Who we are?

Norinchukin Bank Europe (NBE) opened its office in Amsterdam in 2019 and is a subsidiary one of Japan’s largest and oldest financial institutions. Norinchukin Bank was founded in 1923 and is a cooperative bank with its roots in agriculture, fishery and forestry.

We collaborate with more than 100 employees in our Amsterdam office and are actively expanding our business in Europe, with a high focus on sustainability. We foster our open culture by continuously demonstrating our values of openness, sensitivity, engagement and cooperation. At NBE, we are a melting pot from people all over the world, over 22 nationalities are represented. We respect and are interested in each other’s cultures. Furthermore, our way of working can be defined as informal, and our communication lines are short. Since NBE only started in 2019, not everything is carved in stone yet. Therefore, you can contribute to the development of NBE and have a wide scope in terms of responsibility and topics to cover.

Your responsibilities and challenges

We are looking for a HR Officer to join our HR team that consists of two HR Officers, two HR Business Partners and a Head of HR. Together, we support our team members to be able to achieve their potential and to maintain our positive and unique working culture.

In this role you will be responsible for all tasks related to employee administration, hr data management, payroll, in specifics you will:

• Be the first point of contact for all employees for any HR admin/payroll related questions
• Be responsible for the accurate administration of employee records including (sick) leave, employee records and personnel files
• Administer all onboarding, contract changes and offboarding tasks (for both employees and external staff)
• Prepare the payroll each month and liaise with our payroll provider to finalize payments for all staff (including expatriate staff)
• Manage our departmental invoices ensuring timely payment
• Support with HR reporting such as the preparation of periodic reports
• Maintain our HR policies, procedures and manuals such as employee handbook
• Support cross-divisional projects or process such as the yearly HR processes audit

• This is a great role to develop yourself as a broader generalist HR Officer in an international environment.
• This is what we offer

• An attractive salary package that includes holiday allowance and 13th month payment at the end of the year
• An additional bonus payment paid per July each year at discretion of the employer
• A full 6 weeks of holidays per calendar year
• A unique open culture and fun colleagues with of over 25 nationalities.
• Budget of EUR 1000,- per person per year for development opportunities and a one-time language budget of EUR 750,- to learn Japanese, English or Dutch
• Trading a recognized public holiday for your own preferred (religious) holiday.
• Possibility of two months of vitality leave, once after every 7 years
• We work at approximately 50% of the time from the office and 50% of the time from home
• Working at home? Various tools to set up a healthy home office and a onetime contribution of 800 euros that can be used to purchase a desk.
• Working at the office? Free fresh fruit. Choose between a daily commute by public transport or a mobility allowance by distance. Train, bus, tram and metro stops in front of the office.
• Activities like a ping pong tournament, Familiy event, Zuidas Run, Year End Party, quarterly pot luck with homemade food from tens of kitchens.

Are you interested?

We are looking for a candidate with an obtained a Bachelor and have at least 3-5 years’ experience in an HR officer role within an international HR team. You are fluent in Dutch and English. You have experience with HR administration and operations (including payroll and expenses). You enjoy working with HR data (in Excel) or you are interested in developing yourself in that area.

Do you identify yourself with our values, do you enjoy working in an international setting and are you interested in joining us on our impactful growth journey? We encourage you to please apply!

If you have any questions related to the vacancy, please feel free to contact Vanja Saric, HR Business Partner at [email hidden] .