Compensation & Benefits Manager

LVMH; Dubai; On-site; AED 350,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Christian Dior Couture Middle East is seeking a Compensation & Benefits Manager to lead HR Controlling, compensation strategy, payroll governance, budgeting, and analytics in the Dubai region.

Responsibilities include governing workforce costs, budgets, intercompany recharges, and executive dashboards. The role also manages benefits programs and guides cross-functional teams to optimize human capital spend in line with LVMH standards.

Qualifications

• Experience in workforce financial planning and budgeting.
• Knowledge of payroll governance and local regulations.
• Experience delivering dashboards and analytics for HR costs.

Responsibilities

• Own workforce financial planning and governance, including headcount, FTE, payroll costs, accruals, intercompany recharges, and cost reporting.
• Review and approve workforce planning activities, ensuring alignment with budgets and policies.
• Prepare and manage HR budgets and forecasts, including annual budgets and revisions.
• Analyze budget variances and workforce cost trends for executive leadership.
• Oversee payroll governance, controls, and payroll reporting.

Skills

HR analytics

Budgeting

Payroll governance

Financial controls

Leadership

Tools

HRIS

Job description

Overview

Compensation & Benefits Manager leads HR Controlling and Compensation & Benefits for Christian Dior Couture Middle East. The role is responsible for strategic governance of workforce financial planning, compensation strategy, payroll governance, budgeting, advanced HR analytics, and administration of employee benefits.

Key Responsibilities

• Own workforce financial planning and governance, including headcount, FTE, payroll costs, accruals, intercompany recharges, and employee‑related cost reporting.
• Review and approve workforce planning activities such as new hires, organizational changes, employee movements, and staffing requests, ensuring alignment with budgets, business needs, and corporate policies.
• Prepare and manage HR budgets and forecasts, including annual budgets, periodic forecasts, and budget revisions such as R1/R2.
• Analyze budget variances and workforce cost trends, providing recommendations to executive leadership and headquarters.
• Oversee payroll governance and financial controls, ensuring payroll accuracy, compliance with local regulations, internal controls, corporate policies, and LVMH standards.
• Validate payroll adjustments, accruals, reconciliations, and financial reporting before executive approvals.
• Support audits and compliance reviews, including internal control reviews, statutory requirements, and external payroll audits.
• Prepare executive dashboards, workforce analytics, simulations, and scenario analyses to support strategic decision‑making and resource allocation.
• Manage compensation strategy and administration, ensuring programs align with corporate compensation philosophy, internal equity, market competitiveness, and business objectives.
• Oversee variable compensation programs—sales incentives, commissions, performance bonuses, and recognition programs.
• Evaluate compensation proposals using financial impact assessments, market competitiveness, and internal equity principles.
• Manage employee benefits programs, including medical insurance, life insurance, workmen’s compensation, education assistance, employee advances, and other benefit initiatives.
• Manage vendor and provider relationships—insurance providers, external vendors, payroll partners, and service providers.
• Review and optimize benefit policies to improve employee experience while maintaining cost‑effectiveness and financial sustainability.
• Advise senior leadership on workforce cost optimization, compensation policy, organizational planning, and human capital financial risk.
• Lead cross‑functional initiatives with HR, Finance, Accounting, Payroll, and central headquarters teams.
• Drive transformational HR projects, including HRIS implementations, compensation redesign initiatives, and workforce planning projects.