Compensation & Benefits Architect (Hybrid, Melbourne)

Nri Anz; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

NRI is seeking a Compensation & Benefits Partner to lead total rewards strategy across remuneration, incentive design and job architecture. You will partner with senior leaders, Finance and the People & Culture team to deliver market-competitive plans, governance and analytics.

You will drive salary benchmarking, equity reviews and gender pay gap analysis, while partnering with L&D to align capability growth with rewards. Melbourne-based hybrid role with diverse stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in remuneration, compensation and benefits roles within professional services, consulting, technology, or corporate environments.
• Demonstrated experience developing and implementing remuneration and reward strategies.
• Strong understanding of base pay frameworks, variable pay, incentive design, and total rewards principles.
• Experience designing and administering commission-based sales incentive plans and annual bonus schemes.
• Experience developing or managing job architecture, grading, and career framework methodologies.
• Strong understanding of pay governance, remuneration compliance, and equity frameworks.
• Experience conducting gender pay gap analysis and remuneration equity reviews.
• Advanced remuneration modelling, analytical, and reporting capability.
• Experience using market benchmarking tools and salary survey data, with Aon Radford experience highly desirable.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, including experience partnering with senior leaders and executives.

Responsibilities

• Design, govern and administer the annual STI framework, including KPI development, bonus processes, effectiveness monitoring and reporting.
• Partner with leaders to design and maintain sales commission plans that drive profitable growth; support governance, calculations and annual reviews.
• Develop and maintain the Job Architecture Framework, ensuring consistent job families, levels and grading; support role evaluation and alignment with career pathways and remuneration.
• Manage benefits, recognition and reward programs; enhance the Employee Value Proposition to support attraction, retention, engagement and wellbeing.
• Partner with L&D to link capability growth, certifications and leadership development to reward outcomes.
• Own remuneration governance, policies, compliance, equity reviews (including gender pay gap analysis) and Board/executive reporting.
• Lead market benchmarking (e.g. Aon Radford) and deliver insights, dashboards and analytics to support remuneration and workforce decisions.

Skills

Remuneration strategy

Benchmarking & analytics

Pay governance

Stakeholder management

Excel & HRIS reporting

Salary survey data (Aon Radford)

Gender pay gap analysis

Commercial acumen

Education

Advanced degree or professional qualification in HR/Remuneration

Tools

Oracle Fusion

Job description

NRI is seeking a Compensation & Benefits Partner to lead total rewards strategy across remuneration, incentive design and job architecture. You will partner with senior leaders, Finance and the People & Culture team to deliver market-competitive plans, governance and analytics.

You will drive salary benchmarking, equity reviews and gender pay gap analysis, while partnering with L&D to align capability growth with rewards. Melbourne-based hybrid role with diverse stakeholders.