Description
**Role Summary :**
**The Compensation Process Optimization & Systems Manager is responsible for:**
**Driving efficiency and accuracy of the global compensation infrastructure, data, tools and systems by leveraging automation, technology, and process enhancements**
**Planning, execution, and optimization of the annual compensation, benchmarking and survey submission cycles through process automation, data management, and system integration**
**Serve as a partner to the Compensation & Benefits teams, ensuring their needs are met through efficient systems, tools, and data-driven insights**
**Where needed, create dashboards and reporting tools to provide insight / visibility into compensation metrics and trends, forecasting, budgeting and modelling, facilitating better and faster decision-making**
**Roles & Responsibilities :**
**1.Annual Benchmarking Process**
**Manage participation in and submission to benchmarking surveys, and correct upload into internal benchmarking systems**
**Manage annual vendor selection in close collaboration with Compensation Leads and the Total Rewards Infrastructure Lead**
**Assess benchmarking results to identify trends and areas for improvement, recommend adjustments and support rollout of adjustments**
**Increase automated benchmarking by automating survey benchmark matching, driving benchmarking system improvements and data & insights**
**Model salary structures**
**Manage the development of country compensation budgets**
**Update and improve compensation modelers based on latest insights & up to date benchmarking information**
**2.Annual Compensation Cycle Management**
**Collaborate in the planning, coordination, and execution of the annual compensation cycle and be an active member of the Annual Compensation Cycle Coalition Team**
**Collaborate closely with Finance to align fully loaded cost modeling with compensation scenarios, ensuring accurate budget forecasting and accruals**
**Collaborate in and implement timelines, testing, tools, and communication plans**
**Collaborate with Compensation Leads and HR Technology to ensure the compensation cycle runs smoothly and data integrity is maintained.**
**3. Automation & System Optimization**
**Lead the identification, evaluation, and implementation of tools and technologies that improve the efficiency, consistency, automation and governance of compensation-related recurring tasks (salary structures, survey matching, benchmarking, retention, manual calculations, offer management etc.)**
**Be part of the Technology Roadmap Coalition team to enhance the configuration and functionality of compensation modules within the company’s systems.**
**4. Process Improvement**
**Review, map, and optimize current compensation processes to identify opportunities for process improvement, automation, and increased efficiency**
**Implement best practices in workflow automation to ensure compensation processes are streamlined, repeatable, and scalable.**
**5. Data Management & Integrity**
**Ensure accuracy and integrity of compensation data by improving data management processes, building validation mechanisms, and automating data reconciliation**
**Create dashboards and reporting tools to provide visibility into compensation metrics and trends, facilitating better decision-making in close collaboration with the Total Rewards Automation & Technology Manager**
**6. Project Management**
**Manage and oversee automation and process improvement projects within the compensation function, from concept to implementation**
**Develop project plans, timelines, and budgets to ensure successful and timely execution of initiatives**
**7. Training & Change Management**
**Develop training materials and conduct training sessions for HR and compensation team members on new automated processes, tools, and systems**
**Lead change management initiatives to ensure successful adoption of new tools and processes by stakeholders**
**8. Compliance & Risk Management**
**Ensure that automated processes are compliant with legal, regulatory, and company-specific requirements (e.g., data privacy, FLSA, pay equity laws)**
**Implement controls and validation checks within automated systems to minimize errors and reduce risk**
**Minimum Requirements :**
**Bachelor’s degree or similar qualification in Human Resources, Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field**
**Minimum of 8 years of experience in compensation, HRIS (preferably with Workday), or process improvement, with a strong focus on automation and technology implementation**
**Experience with data analytics tools and software (Tableau, Python, PowerBI, Visier and others)**
**Experience with HR systems and compensation software (e.g., Workday) and knowledge of compensation processes / benchmarking processes**
**Project management skills, with a proven track record of leading automation and process improvement initiatives**
**Advanced Excel skills, with experience in building and managing data models, as well as proficiency in data analysis and reporting tools**
**Strong attention to detail, with a focus on data integrity and quality**
**Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills**
**Experience in change management and delivering training programs to ensure successful adoption of new processes and tools**
