Compensation & Benefits Lead

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage compensation and benefits process for the Middle East region, which includes monitoring and managing performance appraisal systems, short term incentive plans, salary benchmarking, benefits benchmarking renewals.
• Lead and mange payroll HRIS processes for the Middle East region, which includes responsibilities such as maintaining employee records within E1, Deltek Paylite system, managing monthly payrolls processing salary payments and managing employee leave management system.
• Manage annual salary revision cycle, bonus cycle and compensation benefits benchmarking survey process in coordination with regional HR Manager and Global comp team.
• Gather and evaluate market data to measure the organization s competitiveness for salary reviews, compensation, and benefits packages.
• Support HR manager to prepare and implement compensation benefits strategy, policies and procedures and Budgetary control.
• Requires the use of advanced techniques and knowledge within his/her function to ensure that all HR processes are followed or changed if necessary to achieve compliance.
• Applies diversified knowledge of applicable principles and practices to broad variety of assignments. And makes decisions independently regarding complexities and methods.
• Supervision and guidance to team members related largely to overall objectives, critical issues, new concepts, and policy matters.
• Ensure HR systems are up to date with new joiners data, leavers, and employee records changes.
• Manage monthly payroll cycles includes collecting payrolls inputs from different departments, processing monthly payroll run and inputs in system and ensuring salary credit by pay date.
• Manage employee leave records and balances in payroll system. Ensure all leaves entitlements, leave avails, and carry over balances are as per company leave policies.
• Manage regional HR systems functional activities which includes support maintenance of the system, ensuring system is up to date with latest payroll and labor laws.
• Liaise with Finance Manager to ensure compliance with all activities related to payroll accounting, benefits accruals, and final settlement.
• Provide periodic HR reports and analytics data such as monthly headcount reports, Leave Gratuity accruals reports and turnover ratios to HR Manager, finance manager and senior management.
• Act as a point of contact for handling and resolving all employee queries related to Compensation, Benefits Payroll.
• Issuing HR documents requirements such as salary certificate, employment certificate, salary transfer letter, NOC letter, etc. for visa requirement, bank account openings and travel purposes.
• Manage employee medical insurance life insurance benefits, which includes maintaining census data for yearly insurance renewals, managing new additions deletions of employees family members in medical insurances.
• Work with team to automate CB and HR processes for efficiency using Microsoft PowerApps and AI