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Bertrand Laurent

HR, HRIS, HR Manager, Project Management

€850/day
Frankfurt am Main, DE
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Bertrand

✓ More than 10 years international experience in Human Resources (operational, strategic, administrative), HR Information Systems (for ex. Workday, SAP, SuccessFactors) and project management (Workday implementation, roll-out of a ticketing system for a HR Services Center, creation of Business cases…)
✓ Deep knowledge of employment laws within the DACH region and its linguistic coverage (German, English, French)
✓ International mindset, hands-on mentality, flexibility and resilience
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

  • German

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Frankfurt am Main (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Deutsche Bank
    Business Advisory Analyst - Payroll Governance
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    May 2023 - June 2025 (2 years and 1 month)
    Frankfurt, Germany
    Implementation of Dayforce payroll system at DB Portugal
    • Preparation of test and production environment with vendor
    • Gathering, verification and upload of masterdata
    • Management of the testing phase to ensure quality of system
    • Lead creation of interface between Workday & Dayforce in collaboration with IT Central team and vendor
    • Creation of a new Payroll KOP
    • Ensure the archiving of data from legacy system
    • Act as deputy project manager for topics related to set-up of payroll system and project management (planning, issue log, escalation, vendor management…)
    Support the Global Payroll Governance team
    • Contact person for SOC 1 audit performed by EY, for topics related to ADP & Dayforce payroll systems
    • Review and enhancement of global payroll governance KPIs
    • Consulting during contract negotiations with new vendors
    HRIS consultancy
    • Central guidance of local HR team DB France and IT Central team to implement changes in Time & Attendance module in Workday
    • Support transfer of training software from Cornerstone to Workday for DB France
    Workday payroll implementation payroll governance
  • Uponor
    Global HR Project Manager
    CIVIL ENGINEERING
    November 2022 - January 2024 (1 year and 2 months)
    Frankfurt, Germany
    **Due to an unstable environment at Uponor at that time (cyber-attack in
    November 2022, aborted takeover by Aliaxis in May 2023, takeover of
    Uponor by Georg Fischer in November 2023), most of the projects were
    put on hold or canceled.**
    • Deep analysis of local payroll set-up in Europe (vendor, interfaces, costs, FTE…) to perform data-based decision about global payroll outsourcing (It has been decided to cancel the implementation of a global payroll system)
    • Optimization of European local payroll and C&B processes and reporting using Workday’s capabilities (Interface and reporting)
    • Central guidance of local HR team and IT team for the implementation of Time & Attendance cloud system Atoss in Germany
    • Vendor analysis for archiving systems of employees’ folders
    Business Case Workday
  • Almatis
    HR Manager
    CHEMICAL
    March 2021 - October 2022 (1 year and 7 months)
    67 Ludwigshafen, Germany
    Management of the HR & Payroll department (2 HR Generalists) for the Almatis factory in Ludwigshafen (320 employees)
    • Develop short- and long-term plans for the HR department in accordance with global strategy (HR Processes improvement, Health Management, Recruiting…), using Workday’s capabilities
    • Manage local C&B processes (job grading, job description, salary increase, bonus calculation, benefits program...)
    • Timely and accurate coordination and execution of all people-related HR & Payroll services and programs for the locations Ludwigshafen & Frankfurt
    • Contact person for the work council to ensure a smooth and efficient collaboration
    • Develop the annual budget for the department, get approval and control the expenses within the budget
    • Ensure correct & timely payroll calculation and processing, Time & Attendance (T&A) recordkeepin
    Payroll Management HR Operations work council labor law Team Leadership

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Education

  • Master International Management of Human Resources
    Université d'Angers (France)
    2012
  • Scrum basics
    Scrum Alliance
    2020

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