Payroll Associate (apprentice)

Contentsquare is the all-in-one experience intelligence platform designed to be easily used by anyone who cares about digital journeys. With our flexible and scalable platform, organizations quickly get a deep understanding of their customers’ whole online journey.

We are a global leader in the experience analytics space, with a growing presence across 15 offices worldwide. We’re here to stay—and we’re looking for team members who are excited to drive impact and help us scale even further.

Our aim is to create an inclusive workplace where everyone learns and succeeds. Contentsquare has built a community of individuals who are daring, understanding, and deliberate. We invite you to join us in making the complex simpler—for our customers, their customers, and each other.

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Reporting to a Senior Payroll Specialist and part of our French Payroll Team (3 persons), you will support our payroll operations in France, helping to deliver the monthly payroll for our 460 employees, ensuring accuracy and compliance while maintaining an employee-centric approach. In your day to day, and in coordination with our Payroll Specialist, you will:

• Participate in the monthly payroll production process using ADP Decidium
• Retrieve the monthly payroll data from our HRIS (Workday)
• Enter and verify payroll data, maintain and update employee records in ADP Decidium
• Calculate and process salaries, social charges, and taxes according to French regulations and our bargaining agreement (SYNTEC)
• Contact with agencies such as Social Security or Prévoyance, etc.
• Handle the recovery of daily social security indemnities (IJSS)
• Monitor sick leave until the initiation of the “Prévoyance” and ensure follow-up of active “Prévoyance” claims.
• Generate and distribute payslips to the employees’ evault (Peopledoc)
• Get involved in all recurring payroll cycle activities (certifications, reporting, etc.).
• Respond to queries from employees, third parties, and other stakeholders.

What We’re Looking For

You are looking for an apprenticeship contract (contrat d’apprentissage ou de professionnalisation) for one or two years.

Technical Competencies

• You are preparing a licence or master’s degree (Bac +3 to Bac +5) in Payroll or HR
• Strong interests for Payroll
• English proficiency: intermediate
• Excel skills (VLOOKUP, formula creation)
• Comfortable working with IT tools and numerical calculations.
• A first professional experience (internship, summer job…) will be appreciated.

Non-Technical Competencies

• Rigor and attention to detail.
• Critical thinking skills (able to analyze and challenge the data).
• Excellent organizational skills with the ability to work under deadlines
• Strong team player with effective communication, collaboration, and mutual support.
• Diplomatic and tactful communication skills, especially when dealing with employees.
• Curious and eager to learn new skills and knowledge.

Why you should join Contentsquare

We invest in our people through career development, mentorship, social events, philanthropic activities, and competitive benefits. We are always assessing the perks we offer to ensure we’re aligned with the employees' needs.

Here are a few we want to highlight:

- Virtual onboarding, Hackathon, and various opportunities to interact with your team and global colleagues both on and offsite each year

- Work flexibility: hybrid and remote work policies

- Generous paid time-off policy (every location is different)

- Lifestyle allowance

- A Culture Crew in every country we’re based in to coordinate regular activities for employees to get to know each other and bond outside of work

- Every full-time employee receives stock options, allowing them to share in the company’s success

- We have multiple Employee Resource Groups, that offer a safe space for individuals who share common identities, life experiences, or allyship to connect, support one another, and passionately advocate for the issues close to their hearts

- And more benefits tailored to each country

Contentsquare is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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