Regional Compensation Specialist - EMEA & North America

Aon; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Aon in Bengaluru, India is seeking a Compensation Specialist to manage day-to-day compensation activities with a strong focus on data accuracy, governance, and stakeholder collaboration. The role emphasizes regulatory awareness, cyclical processes, and project-based work across the regional scope.

You will support salary changes, analytics, audits, and communications, ensuring timely execution and adherence to policy while coordinating with People Partners, HR Operations, and Payroll in a hybrid

Qualifications

• Relevant experience in compensation, rewards, HR operations, people analytics, or a similarly data-focused HR environment; regional experience is preferred.
• Working knowledge of compensation principles and processes, such as salary administration, salary structures, job evaluation, market data, incentives, pay equity, or compliance.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple recurring activities, deadlines, and stakeholder follow-ups.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience collecting, validating, reconciling, and interpreting data to design solutions.
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy, particularly when handling confidential colleague and compensation information.
• Clear and collaborative communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with Compensation colleagues, People Partners, and other internal stakeholders.
• Demonstrates sound judgment by independently resolving routine compensation and HR inquiries, while appropriately escalating complex, high-risk, or policy exception cases, with minimal rework or corrective intervention required.
• A proactive self-starter who takes accountability for outcomes, seeks solutions, and actively contributes to team and business objectives.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including formulas, pivot tables, lookups, data validation, and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Manage and coordinate tasks, documentation, trackers, approvals, and stakeholder follow-ups for assigned compensation activities across the compensation remit.
• Audit, prepare, validate and reconcile compensation data, templates, reports, and system inputs.
• Use data management, analytical, and problem-solving skills to deliver annual compensation planning and execution, as well as other cyclical processes through data preparation, testing, tracking, reporting, and issue resolution.
• Respond to compensation queries from a variety of stakeholders and use sound judgement to provide practical guidance.
• Monitor completion of actions and escalate risks, exceptions, data concerns, and policy-sensitive matters to the appropriate Compensation lead.
• Provide flexible support for projects, regulatory requirements, audits, and emerging operational priorities.
• Coordinate and execute the administration of salary changes, promotions, incentive awards, and other compensation actions, as assigned.
• Coordinate regional compensation programmes and recurring activities, maintaining accurate records, process documentation, and audit trails.
• Analyse and interpret compensation data to identify trends, anomalies, incomplete actions, or potential data-quality issues and deliver preliminary recommendations.
• Conduct periodic audits and reconciliations of colleague, plan, budget, and compensation data, coordinating agreed remediation actions.
• Play a key role in supporting the annual compensation cycle, with a focus on data validation, communication materials, testing, reconciliation, reporting, query resolution and follow-up.
• Manage, track and process various compensation element commitments and corresponding budget; ensure key stakeholders are informed of budget trending on a periodic basis.
• Execute compensation program review process, including refreshing templates, gathering relevant data, analyzing data, developing synthesized presentation materials and coordinating inputs from key stakeholders.
• Assist with regulatory and statutory activity, such as minimum or living wage reviews, pay-related reporting, data requests, and implementation tracking, under the direction of the regional Compensation team.
• Undertake job matching, data extraction, file preparation, validation, and coordination with country teams or the global survey lead, as required to deliver salary survey participation for the region.
• Coordinate with People Partners, HR Operations, Payroll, Finance, Talent Acquisition, Legal, and other stakeholders to deliver accurate and timely implementation.
• Maintain regional compensation guidance, templates, trackers, shared sites, and other operational materials so that information remains current and accessible.
• Prepare structured data, summaries, and supporting documentation for audits, governance reviews, leadership requests, or regional projects.
• Provide additional operational, analytical, reporting, and administrative support to the aligned regional Compensation team as business priorities require.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes and procedures to improve efficiency.

Skills

Compensation

HR operations

Data analytics

Excel

Attention to detail

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Job Summary

General description of role: As a Compensation Specialist, you will use strong organizational, analytical, collaborative and problem-solving skills to provide high-quality outcomes for the People Organization, the business and other stakeholders relating to compensation. With a focus on operational, analytical, regulatory and administrative work, you will deliver day-to-day, cyclical, regulatory, and project-based compensation activity accurately, consistently, and on time.

Location: Bangalore, India

Job Type: Full Time

Working style: Hybrid

Job Responsibilities

• Manage and coordinate tasks, documentation, trackers, approvals, and stakeholder follow-ups for assigned compensation activities across the compensation remit.
• Audit, prepare, validate and reconcile compensation data, templates, reports, and system inputs.
• Use data management, analytical, and problem-solving skills to deliver annual compensation planning and execution, as well as other cyclical processes through data preparation, testing, tracking, reporting, and issue resolution.
• Respond to compensation queries from a variety of stakeholders and use sound judgement to provide practical guidance.
• Monitor completion of actions and **escalate** risks, exceptions, data concerns, and policy-sensitive matters to the appropriate Compensation lead.
• Provide flexible support for projects, regulatory requirements, audits, and emerging operational priorities.
• Coordinate and execute the administration of salary changes, promotions, incentive awards, and other compensation actions, as assigned.
• Coordinate regional compensation programmes and recurring activities, maintaining accurate records, process documentation, and audit trails.
• Analyse and interpret compensation data to identify trends, anomalies, incomplete actions, or potential data-quality issues and deliver preliminary recommendations.
• Conduct periodic audits and reconciliations of colleague, plan, budget, and compensation data, coordinating agreed remediation actions.
• Play a key role in supporting the annual compensation cycle, with a focus on data validation, communication materials, testing, reconciliation, reporting, query resolution and follow-up.
• Manage, track and process various compensation element commitments and corresponding budget; ensure key stakeholders are informed of budget trending on a periodic basis.
• Execute compensation program review process, including refreshing templates, gathering relevant data, analyzing data, developing synthesized presentation materials and coordinating inputs from key stakeholders.
• Assist with regulatory and statutory activity, such as minimum or living wage reviews, pay-related reporting, data requests, and implementation tracking, under the direction of the regional Compensation team.
• Undertake job matching, data extraction, file preparation, validation, and coordination with country teams or the global survey lead, as required to deliver salary survey participation for the region.
• Coordinate with People Partners, HR Operations, Payroll, Finance, Talent Acquisition, Legal, and other stakeholders to deliver accurate and timely implementation.
• Maintain regional compensation guidance, templates, trackers, shared sites, and other operational materials so that information remains current and accessible.
• Prepare structured data, summaries, and supporting documentation for audits, governance reviews, leadership requests, or regional projects.
• Provide additional operational, analytical, reporting, and administrative support to the aligned regional Compensation team as business priorities require.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes and procedures to improve efficiency.

Skills / Competencies

• Relevant experience in compensation, rewards, HR operations, people analytics, or a similarly data-focused HR environment; regional experience is preferred.
• Working knowledge of compensation principles and processes, such as salary administration, salary structures, job evaluation, market data, incentives, pay equity, or compliance.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple recurring activities, deadlines, and stakeholder follow-ups.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience collecting, validating, reconciling, and interpreting data to design solutions.
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy, particularly when handling confidential colleague and compensation information.
• Clear and collaborative communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with Compensation colleagues, People Partners, and other internal stakeholders.
• Demonstrates sound judgment by independently resolving routine compensation and HR inquiries, while appropriately escalating complex, high-risk, or policy exception cases, with minimal rework or corrective intervention required.
• A proactive self-starter who takes accountability for outcomes, seeks solutions, and actively contributes to team and business objectives.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including formulas, pivot tables, lookups, data validation, and reporting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of industry experience.
• 3+ years of relevant experience.