Hiring: True HR Manager | Lead Change to 4-Day Workweek

Maria Piroi in maroon dress with black collar, seated against a beige background, looking confident.

YOUR FIRST MAJOR TASK

Plan and implement the firm-wide transition to a 4-day workweek using True HR.

We don’t just want ideas. We need structure, alignment, and execution. If that excites you, read on.

We are looking for an HR Manager who’s ready to lead real transformation, not just coordinate day-to-day operations.

You will work side by side with the firm’s partners, take full ownership of your team and processes, and shape the way we manage people — both inside our firm and for our clients.

This is a role for someone who knows how to rebuild, structure, and energise.

WHAT YOUR FIRST MONTH WILL LOOK LIKE

Week 1 – Understand & Map

Discuss with the HR team and accounting coordinators
Assess current workflows and collaboration habits
Get comfortable with your own personal portfolio of clients
Identify what’s missing and what’s blocking
Map internal HR documentation and visibility gaps
End-of-week-test-#-1: one of the experts is a freerider. Identify and fire, while maintaining business continuity

Week 2 – Set Structure & Standards

Establish clear rules of engagement and communication
Prepare the transition plan from SAGA to True HR
Start managing the ticketing system for HR tasks
Start managing your own personal portfolio of clients (~300 employees) for day-to-day payroll operations
Start pushing daily HR content into the Piroi | Business in Romania mobile app App Store
End-of-week-test-#-2: all personnel files for internal staff are digitised and easily accessible

Week 3 – Act & Align

Start implementation of Reges Online for all clients
Continue managing your own personal portfolio of clients for day-to-day payroll operations
Define the roadmap for transition to a 4-day workweek
End-of-week-test-#-3: Reges Online fully active for all internal staff

Week 4 – Present & Lead

Present your roadmap and key decisions to the firm’s partners
Run your first HR team alignment session
Begin structural change with full ownership
Fully manage your own personal portfolio of clients for day-to-day payroll operations
End-of-week-test-#-4: Leadership style accepted by the team, vision followed

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

Internal Responsibilities (within the firm):

Manage and develop the internal HR team (4 colleagues), an IT Expert and a Front Office Expert
Support the wellbeing, clarity, and cohesion of the entire internal team (30 professionals)
Create a culture of ownership and responsiveness — not avoidance
Improve cross-department workflows (especially HR–Accounting)
Manage the shared ticketing system for HR support
Drive adoption of collaborative tools
Maintain, audit, and fully digitise personnel files for all internal staff — you own their accuracy, completeness, and accessibility (digital-first, no paper-only records)

External Responsibilities (for client companies):

Handle your own portfolio of client companies (~300 employees)
Deliver complete HR services: contracts, personnel files, payroll coordination, compliance, inspections
Actively increase revenue by identifying and promoting HR services tailored to each client’s needs
Deliver consistent and useful HR content via the mobile app Piroi | my Business in Romania® | App Store

REQUIREMENTS

To be considered, you must meet the following:

Minimum 3 years of HR Management experience, ideally in an accounting, consulting or legal firm
Fluent in both Romanian and English (mandatory – written and spoken)
Strong working knowledge of Romanian labour law
Mandatory: Hands-on experience with payroll operations and employment contract administration
Confident communicator with real initiative and professional presence
Not just strategic: operationally involved and execution-driven
Expert user of collaborative tools (True HR, Google Workspace Enterprise)
Comfortable leading change and challenging inertia
Membership in CIPD / CECCAR / CCF / CAFR / ACCA / CFA – a plus

We are not looking for a generalist HRBP or a recruitment-only background. This is an operational role — you will personally manage payroll workflows and employment contract administration for ~300 client employees, as well as oversee the firm’s internal HR systems and digital transformation.

WHAT WE OFFER

Real authority and direct access to decision-makers
A leadership role - not an assistant to one
A real opportunity to build a new kind of HR model, not just operate the old one
Salary: up to €1,500 net/month, plus Bonus: 10% of all optional HR services delivered to all clients
Office in central Bucharest (Str. Dr Iacob Felix 21), large office spaces + outdoor terraces
A stable, growing firm, member of a respected global network (TAG Alliances®)

HOW TO APPLY

1. Complete two short tests from the University of Cambridge Psychometric Centre:

Leadership Styles (~10 minutes)
General Self-Efficacy Scale (~2 minutes)

➤ Save the results as PDF and send them together with your CV to contact@piroi.com. Applications without test results will not be considered.

2. After receipt of your PDF test results, you will be contacted via SMS within 2 business days, directly by one of the firm’s partners. Please ensure your phone number is updated in your CV.