Regional Compensation & Benefit Specialist

Role Overview

• Support the development, enhancement, and rollout of compensation philosophy, and benefits harmonization programs, policies, and procedures.
• Proactively conduct market research and contribute analytical insights to design discussions.
• Recommend enhancements based on emerging global and regional trends, regulatory requirements, and benchmarking insights.
• Support global compensation team in administrating base compensation, short-term incentives, long-term incentives, and recognition programs.
• Support annual compensation cycles including merit, bonus, and equity planning activities.
• Prepare reports, analytics, dashboards, modeling, and presentations.
• Partner with various internal key stakeholders on job evaluations, salary range placement, offer construction, and internal equity analysis.
• Ensure compensation programs comply with local employment laws, statutory requirements, and internal governance standards.
• Support audits, and documentation related to compensation programs.
• Conduct compensation benchmarking using regional market surveys to ensure competitive salary ranges and job structures.
• Monitor market trend, pay transparency, equal pay, and other regulatory change requirements in EMEA and APAC, and assess the impact on compensation practices.
• Provide data-driven insights and recommendations to the leadership team.
• Liaise and work with payroll vendor on system management, and ensure timely and accurate processing and payment.
• Monitor any off-cycle payments, probation confirmation, Part-time/Term contract status, and update payroll and relevant teams.
• Prepare reports, including monthly local and global headcount reports, and turnover reports for management reviews.
• Ensure Data Accuracy and Compliance in HRIS and employee records.
• Serve as payroll backup for our Philippine payroll team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Finance, Mathematics, or related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in compensation and/or benefits program management; multi-region benefits experience strongly preferred.
• Familiar with Deel platform is an advantage
• Knowledge of compensation and benefits regulations and compliance requirements across APAC and EMEA
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with experience using benchmarking data and compensation/benefits analytics.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills; able to simplify complex Total Rewards concepts.
• High level of integrity and ability to manage confidential and sensitive information.

Benefits

• Employee initiatives to create a holistic employee experience