The Financial Compensation Analyst is a high-profile, critical role providing global compensation support for our 450+ employees across 12 countries.
As the technical lead, you will support the development of global salary, bonus, and incentive structures, manage the annual compensation budgeting & benchmarking process, and maintain country-specific pay scales.
Your strong business and financial acumen will underpin your gravitas and credibility to work with C-suite members and provide quantitative and qualitative information to our People & Culture Centers of Expertise.
You’ll be able to work in our close-knit, fun, and hugely supportive People & Culture (P&C) team. Our main mantra is ‘one P&C; one team’. We strive to develop individual capability characterized by personal accountability and shared responsibility. Our other mantra, ‘better never stops’, underpins our determination to deliver P&C excellence in everything we do.
🟡 What we are looking for:
◽ Educated to degree level (or equivalent) in Finance or an equivalent STEM discipline
◽ At least three years of experience in finance, analytics or accounting.
◽ Payroll experience.
◽ Experience in data analysis and modeling, managing and manipulating large, complex data sets.
◽ Understanding survey methodologies, including job matching, reporting line, and responsibilities is preferred.
◽ Ability to use MS Excel for analysis, reporting, and data cleansing; strong knowledge of formulas (VLOOKUP, IF, OR, INDEX, MATCH, etc.), data validation functionality, and creation of Pivot tables.
◽ Ability to work with MS Excel VBA or Power BI is an advantage.
◽ Ability to work collaboratively and independently and a high level of organization and detail orientation are all prerequisites. Demonstrated capability in efficiently handling a high volume of projects and complex transactions is also a must.
🟡 Key responsibilities:
◽ Salary benchmarking:
→ Prepare global salary benchmarking survey submissions, including data collection, role matching, and related analysis of survey reports.
→ Performed global market benchmarking analyses to ensure our pay scales were market-competitive.
→ Conduct ad hoc proxy analysis from desk research to support competitive market assessments.
→ Undertake ad-hoc benchmarking and prepare salary proposals relating to pay raises and promotions.
→ Support the bi-annual global salary & performance review process, including preparation of pay and pay inflation analyses, pay budgets, pay proposal materials, analysis of proposals, and implementation.
→ Maintain an internal database of all pay scales, bonus and incentive structures, and non-standard compensation packages.
→ Provide recurring and ad-hoc compensation metrics, data reporting, and other analyses.
→ Support the preparation and completion of global regulatory compensation reporting and filings.
→ Monitor data to ensure data integrity consistency and distinguish gaps, confirming all data complies with local legal requirements.
→ Conduct ongoing research and analysis into emerging and industry trends, market data, and best practices related to compensation programs.
◽ Analytics:
→ Manipulate, model, analyze & interpret large data sets, draw conclusions, and create a compelling narrative to add value to compensation-related decisions.
→ Use effective data visualization techniques to present compelling narratives and insights, model financial impact, and conclude.
→ Designed, built, and implemented analytical models using people and market data to forecast costs and identify issues and impacts.
→ Work on ad-hoc compensation projects throughout the year, including research and analysis and developing recommendations.
→ Deliver annual budgets and rolling forecasts.
→ Provide compensation-related administration, e.g., manage employee/line manager queries, rewards meetings, and invoices.
◽ Compensation governance:
→ Provide data insights and analysis for Remuneration Committee (REMCO) papers.
→ Support design philosophies and strategies to attract, reward, and retain talent through analytics.
→ First point of contact on compensation-related policies and governance, providing sound guidance to relevant stakeholders.
→ Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of the internal and external compliance and guidance information relating to compensation globally.
◽ Incentives:
→ Support with calculating, analyzing, and awarding sales and bonus incentive programs.
→ Analytical support for annual and long-term incentive programs, e.g., cost modeling/analysis, budget planning, run rates, etc.
🟡 What we offer
◽ A fun, informal, collaborative, and international work culture.
◽ A competitive salary package.
◽ Access to regular coaching and mentoring sessions and the opportunity to learn from experienced professionals.
◽ Access to the Aurora Academy, our training program, offers a range of opportunities to develop your skills within the responsibilities of your role and within the wider context of the industry.
◽ Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), offering a complete support network that offers expert advice and compassionate guidance 24/7/365, covering a wide range of personal and professional aspects.
