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KPMG Netherlands

Audits accounts and advises organizations

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Full-TimeUpdated on 10/15/2026
€3.2k - €5.2k/mo+ Variable performance pay + Fixed expense allowance + Work-from-home allowance
Mid
Bachelor's
Amstelveen, Netherlands
Hybrid
People & HRHR Generalist & Employee Relations

About the job

Requirements
  • A required HBO or WO diploma.
  • A required ROV diploma or similar credential.
  • Strong spoken and written Dutch and English.
  • Demonstrated experience in absence management within a complex, professional organization.
  • Strong knowledge of the Wet verbetering Poortwachter, occupational health and safety legislation, and the General Data Protection Regulation, with the ability to apply them in practice.
  • Ability to take convincing control of absence-management cases and switch smoothly between advising and execution.
  • Ability to communicate clearly and professionally and act as a reliable discussion partner for managers, HR, and occupational physicians.
  • Ability to combine empathy with process discipline and work carefully on both casework and administration.
  • Ability to maintain oversight, set priorities, and complete work in a structured manner.
  • Willingness to collaborate within a professional HR domain and proactively contribute to improving processes, policy, and services.
Responsibilities
  • Own the full absence-management process, monitor progress, quality, and compliance with the Wet verbetering Poortwachter, and ensure all steps are completed on time and documented.
  • Address stalled cases, initiate appropriate interventions, and keep stakeholders focused on sustainable recovery.
  • Translate legislation, regulations, and internal policies into clear agreements and workable procedures.
  • Advise managers and HR colleagues on complex cases and initiate first-track and second-track reintegration programs when needed.
  • Act as a discussion partner for managers, management teams, and occupational physicians, ensuring communication is careful, professional, and respectful.
  • Analyze absence data, identify trends and risks, and translate insights into concrete actions and advice for management.
  • Manage the operational process, including mailbox management, accurate system registration, preparation of reintegration reports and WIA documentation, and maintenance of templates and FAQs.
  • Maintain HR Portal information with colleagues and contribute to optimizing the provider network by monitoring market developments, legislative changes, and potential partners.
  • Organize tenders, workshops, training sessions, and networking events.

About the company

KPMG Netherlands audits financial statements and advises businesses, public bodies and nonprofit organizations on how they operate and change. Its assurance work examines financial and other reported information, while its advisory teams work on strategy, transactions, risk, technology and sustainability. Clients buy professional services that combine specialist analysis with support for decisions, systems and organizational change. The Dutch audit and advisory practice works with local and international clients and draws on the broader KPMG network's expertise. Its Dutch roots date to an Amsterdam accounting practice opened in 1917, and it is headquartered in Amstelveen, the Netherlands.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Amstelveen, Netherlands

Founded

1917

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