Human Resources Apprentice

Our mission? Creating the freedom for SMEs to succeed in business and beyond, by delivering Europe’s leading finance workspace. We combine business-class tools (seamless invoicing, spend management, and pre-accounting) with unwaveringly attentive 24/7 support, designed to help businesses breeze through all things finance.

Our journey: Founded by Alexandre and Steve in July 2017, Qonto has rapidly gained trust, serving over 500,000 customers. Thanks to our wonderful team of 1,600+ Qontoers, we also made it to the LinkedIn Top Companies French ranking!

Our values:

Customer focus | Prioritize customers in everything you do

Ownership | Own your part, get things done

Teamwork | Make (team)work easy

Mastery | Continuously raise the bar

Integrity | Always do what’s right, and respect people

Our beliefs: At Qonto, we're committed to fostering a welcoming environment where everyone can thrive. We prioritize evaluating applicants based solely on skills and potential, ensuring diversity with 50% international team members, 44% women, and 20% parents. Join us in building a workplace that celebrates diversity and individuality.

Discover the steps we took to create a discrimination-free hiring process.

As a Human Resources Apprentice, you will be joining the People Operations team composed of 11 members (7 members in France and 4 members in the other offices) and you will be contributing to Qonto’s success by providing the best-in-class employee experience to all our Qontoers.

The objective of the apprenticeship is to make you discover the different aspects and mission of a Human Resources role.

Location: Paris office

Preferred rhythm: 4 days at Qonto, 1 day at school

Starting: September 2025

👩‍💻🧑‍💻 As a Human Resources Apprentice at Qonto, you will

Help the People Operations team in the different business units of Qonto:

• Daily Operations: Be a point of contact to Qontoers respond to any day-to-day queries on HR rules and standards

• HR Policies and Processes: Help the People Ops team to apply human resources policies, procedures, contracts for interns and apprentices

• HRIS/Data accuracy: Support the regular updates of the HRIS/people data to guarantee accuracy (Workday)

• Support People Ops: managing absences and medical appointments

🤔 What you can expect

• Championship on any HR lifecycle topics of employees by partnering with an amazing team

• Experience in implementing HR policies in a scale-up

• Hands-on experience using HRIS in a FinTech Company

• Agility or how to adapt constantly to scale in HR whilst keeping a high-quality level of HR standards!

🤝 About your future manager

You will work with Elise Daviau, our Lead People Operations Manager at Qonto. With over five years here, she expertly scales HR operations to support rapid growth and leads a team in optimizing processes and ensuring compliance. Elise’s career highlights include international payroll management and a focus on fostering a high-performance culture.

🏅About You

• Rigor: You have an auto-control ability in order to avoid most mistakes and ready to learn

• Teamwork: You are able to build strong relationships with the team based on confidentiality and trust

• Communication: You have outstanding communication and interpersonal skills

• Languages: You are fluent in English and in French

• Dynamism & Reactivity: You are a dynamic person, eager to get things done or to find solutions, you are quite reactive to requests

• Academic background: You are currently doing a French Master's or equivalent degree in Human Resources Management, French labor law, or a relevant field

• A first experience in HR, ideally in Operation, would be a plus !

🎁 Perks

An inclusive work environment. And so much more to help you succeed.

- Offices in Paris, Berlin, Milan, Barcelona, and Belgrade;

- Up to 2 remote days per week (depending on what your school allows);

- A meal voucher;

- Public transportation reimbursement;

- Great offers for sports and wellness activities;

- A progressive disability and parenthood policy (1 in 6 of Qonto employees is a parent!) and childcare benefits with selected partners;

- Monthly team events.

Click here to read more about what it's like to be an apprentice at Qonto.

💬 Our hiring process:

- Interviews with your Talent Acquisition Manager and future manager/mentor

- A remote exercise to demonstrate your skills and give you a taste of what working at Qonto could be like

Find more information about our interview process on our careers website.

On average, our process lasts 20 working days and offers usually follow within 48 hours 🤞

To learn more about us:

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