APAC Compensation Strategist – 6-Month Contract

Ghd; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

3 days in office per week

Job summary

GHD is seeking an APAC Compensation Specialist to provide expert compensation advice across APAC under a 6-month fixed-term contract. You will guide pay decisions, salary structures, equity considerations and reward programs, partnering with People Teams and leaders.

Be part of a hybrid workplace in Australia, collaborating with multiple markets to drive talent attraction and retention through market data, benchmarking and governance. Strong stakeholder skills required.

Qualifications

• Strong compensation experience with the ability to work independently on complex remuneration matters.
• Ability to provide practical, evidence-based advice to People Teams and business leaders.
• Strong analytical capability and ability to translate market and workforce data into clear recommendations.
• Experience with salary structures, market pricing, salary review and pay equity.
• Ability to establish trusted relationships quickly across APAC countries and stakeholder groups.
• Sound judgement balancing business requirements, employee outcomes, governance and affordability.
• Experience with Korn Ferry job evaluation and job architecture methodologies would be highly regarded.
• Practical, collaborative approach and the ability to understand existing frameworks in a fixed-term environment.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business leaders and People Teams across APAC to understand and respond to workforce challenges and compensation needs.
• Provide expert guidance on remuneration decisions, pay positioning, job offers, retention risks and internal equity considerations.
• Evaluate options, trade-offs and risks to recommend practical compensation solutions.
• Support leaders through complex or sensitive remuneration discussions and decisions.
• Review and maintain salary ranges across APAC, including priority market updates and adjustments.
• Apply market data, compensation principles to recommend pay positioning and structures.
• Undertake priority regional pay equity analysis and actions.
• Apply established survey matching methodologies and market data consistently and accurately.
• Provide compensation expertise and leadership for annual salary review activities across APAC.
• Contribute to salary budget recommendations using market data and stakeholder input.
• Guide People Teams and business leaders through salary review planning and decision-making.
• Support priority reward programme activities, including annual bonus activities, as required.
• Undertake complex compensation analyses and assessments independently.
• Translate market, workforce and reward data into clear recommendations and actionable insights.
• Evaluate the impact of relevant workforce, labour market and business trends on compensation decisions.
• Develop practical solutions that balance business needs, employee experience, governance and affordability.
• Identify material risks, dependencies and downstream impacts when recommending actions.
• Identify practical opportunities to improve compensation tools, guidance and decision-making resources.
• Capture insights and recommendations that support greater consistency and effectiveness of compensation practices across APAC.

Skills

Compensation expertise

Stakeholder management

Data analysis

Korn Ferry methodologies

Tools

Korn Ferry methodologies

Job description

GHD is seeking an APAC Compensation Specialist to provide expert compensation advice across APAC under a 6-month fixed-term contract. You will guide pay decisions, salary structures, equity considerations and reward programs, partnering with People Teams and leaders.

Be part of a hybrid workplace in Australia, collaborating with multiple markets to drive talent attraction and retention through market data, benchmarking and governance. Strong stakeholder skills required.