Total Rewards Strategist

Planit Testing; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

NRI, a leading technology and advisory firm with a strong presence in Australia, invites a Compensation & Benefits Partner to shape total reward strategy. You will advise senior leaders on remuneration, incentive design and pay governance, ensuring market competitiveness and equity across the business.

Partner with Finance, Talent and L&D to develop frameworks, benchmarking and reporting, and lead gender pay gap analysis, job architecture and career frameworks to support growth and performance.

Qualifications

• 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.

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

Stakeholder management

Excel & analytics

HRIS reporting

Salary benchmarking

Incentive design

Gender pay gap analysis

Job architecture

Pay governance

Aon Radford experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR/Business

Tools

Oracle Fusion

Aon Radford

Job description

NRI, a leading technology and advisory firm with a strong presence in Australia, invites a Compensation & Benefits Partner to shape total reward strategy. You will advise senior leaders on remuneration, incentive design and pay governance, ensuring market competitiveness and equity across the business.

Partner with Finance, Talent and L&D to develop frameworks, benchmarking and reporting, and lead gender pay gap analysis, job architecture and career frameworks to support growth and performance.