Compensation & Benefits Specialist

NRI Australia & New Zealand; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

NRI Australia & New Zealand is seeking a Compensation & Benefits Partner to lead remuneration strategy and total rewards initiatives. You will partner with senior leaders, Finance and the People & Culture team to deliver market-competitive programs, governance and insights that align with business goals.

You’ll design incentive plans, job architecture and career frameworks, while driving equity, governance and transparency across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Experience in remuneration and benefits within professional services, consulting, technology, or corporate environments.
• Experience designing 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.

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 and Board/executive reporting.
• Lead market benchmarking and deliver insights, dashboards and analytics to support remuneration and workforce decisions.

Skills

Remuneration strategy

Total rewards

Pay governance

Advanced Excel

Stakeholder management

Salary benchmarking

Gender pay gap analysis

Remuneration modelling

HR analytics

Market benchmarking tools

Education

Bachelor’s degree in HR or Business

Tools

Oracle Fusion

HRIS reporting

Aon Radford

Job description

At NRI, we bring together deep technology expertise, capability and real-world industry experience to help organisations solve complex challenges and shape what's next. From IT advisory and enterprise transformation to quality engineering, cyber, cloud and managed services, we work across the full technology lifecycle – turning ideas into outcomes that make a difference. With a global heritage and a strong presence across Australia, New Zealand and Asia, we combine the scale and capability to take on complex challenges with the agility, collaboration and the personal connection of a local team.

Our People & Culture group plays a critical role in helping our team members and organisation thrive, creating an environment where talented people can grow, perform at their best and build meaningful careers. You'll work alongside experienced people professionals and business leaders across business partnering, talent acquisition, capability growth, culture and people systems, helping shape how we attract, develop and support our people. It's an opportunity to make a real impact, contribute to an evolving people agenda and help create a workplace where people can do their best work and see what's possible for their careers.

Bring your expertise to our team as a Compensation & Benefits Partner. This role is critical in ensuring NRI's total reward approach remains market competitive, commercially sustainable, equitable, and aligned to business strategy. Partnering closely with senior leaders, Finance, and the broader People & Culture team, the role provides expert advice and insights across remuneration strategy, salary benchmarking, incentive design, job architecture, career frameworks, reward and recognition programs, and pay governance.

KEY 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 & EXPERIENCE

• Significant experience in remuneration, compensation and benefits, reward, or workforce strategy roles within a professional services, consulting, technology, or corporate environment.
• 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.
• Commercially minded with the ability to balance business outcomes, market competitiveness, and employee experience.
• Advanced Excel, workforce analytics, and HRIS reporting capability (Oracle Fusion desirable).
• Act as NRI's subject matter expert in remuneration and reward.
• Demonstrate strong commercial judgement and strategic thinking.
• Champion fairness, equity, and transparency in reward practices.
• Build trusted partnerships with leaders across the business.
  

WHY YOU'LL LOVE WORKING AT NRI

At NRI, we believe great careers are built through solving complex challenges, continuous growth and the opportunity to make an impact. Whether you're deepening your technical expertise, developing as a leader or exploring where your career can take you next, you'll have the opportunity to build capability, make an impact and shape what's next.

Build expertise that makes an impact. Work alongside talented technologists, consultants, industry specialists and problem-solvers on complex challenges that create real outcomes for our clients. You'll be surrounded by people who are generous with their knowledge and invested in helping each other grow.

Shape your career.Your career is yours to build. With clear career pathways, structured development, technical certification opportunities, leadership programs and access to extensive learning resources, you'll have the support to develop your expertise and explore new opportunities.

Make your expertise count. From performance and technology delivery, transformation, quality engineering and managed services, you'll have the opportunity to take on challenging and rewarding work, contribute your ideas and see the impact of what you do.

Bring your perspective, belong here. We want NRI to be a place where people feel respected, included and able to do their best work. We value different experiences, perspectives and ways of thinking, and are committed to creating an environment where everyone can belong and contribute.

YOUR EXPERIENCE MATTERS, YOUR POTENTIAL IS YOURS TO EXPLORE

You don't need to tick every box to belong at NRI. We value curiosity, capability, attitude and the willingness to learn and we encourage you to apply if you can see yourself growing into this role - or another opportunity across NRI.

At NRI, we value different experiences, perspectives and ways of thinking. We are committed to an inclusive workplace where everyone has the opportunity to belong, contribute and grow.

This role is based on Naarm Land (Melbourne).