AVP - Compensation & Benefits/Employee Relations - Bank

Responsible for supporting COE in driving compensation and benefits, employee relations and data analytics

Compensation & Benefits:

- Provide strategic and operational support in designing, implementation, administration and communication of all compensation programs.

- Support in designing and iteration of compensation policies for all job families to ensure external competitiveness and internal equity, through research& benchmarking on comp policies and practices of leading Bank & Captive firms as well as internal data analysis.

- Monitor local regulations and work closely with HR Ops and Legal to ensure policies comply with local laws

- Support in driving compensation review program by participating in various external benchmarking exercises, market intelligence and in house guidelines

- Partner with HR BPs and TA to provide solutions for comp. and broader HR initiatives

- Support COE in liaising with business stakeholders to provide them recommendations in tackling difficult cases in the area of compensation & benefits.

Employee Relations:

- Support in designing and review of existing HR policies and processes to create a positive employee experience during the employee lifecycle

- Monitor local regulations and work closely with HR Ops and Legal to ensure policies comply with local laws

- Partner with HR BPs to provide interpretations and clarifications on policies and governance related matter pertaining to HR.

- Support in driving investigations and levy relevant consequences in case of any breach of policies.

Data Analytics & Audits:

- Support in analysing organization trends by working on various dashboards/reports to identify the trends and call out any potential HR risks that organization may be exposed to proactively

- Liaise with HR BPs to understand the pulse of the organization and accordingly present key trends, takeaways and recommended interventions.

- Support in various audits (in partnership with HR ops) to ensure our processes are compliant

Skills Required:

- Experience in Rewards and Benefits (a must) function as a part of COE.

- Strong analytical capabilities: Analyse trends, surveys, data analytics to determine relevant HR strategies (strong advance excel skills.

- Excellent communication skills: Be able to communicate with HR and Business leads on programs, policies and philosophies.

- Strong Ethics and Discretion: deal with confidential information and therefore must be ethical and discrete while handling sensitive information.

- Preferable experience in COE team in a Bank/ Bank GCC unit.