Senior HR Executive - APAC Compensation & Benefits (Strategy & Analytics)

The Human Capital; Batu Kawan; Sur place; MYR 120 000 - 180 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

The Human Capital is partnering with our client to fill a Senior HR Executive – APAC Compensation & Benefits (Strategy & Analytics) role in Malaysia. This strategic position focuses on building advanced C&B analytics, salary benchmarking, and cost modelling across the APAC region, reporting to regional leadership and engaging with C-level stakeholders.

The successful candidate will drive data-driven compensation strategies, navigate regional market trends, and ensure governance across C&B

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of relevant HR experience with a strong C&B focus, not payroll-only.
• Manufacturing industry knowledge is preferred to understand shift allowances and labor markets.
• Advanced Excel and data modelling skills are essential; Power BI is a plus.

Responsabilités

• Lead APAC compensation & benefits analytics and model development.
• Benchmark salary data, internal equity, and compensation costings across APAC.
• Ensure governance, compliance, and benefits administration; present insights to executives.

Connaissances

C&B strategy

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder management

Outils

Excel (Advanced)

Power BI

Description du poste

Senior HR Executive - APAC Compensation & Benefits (Strategy & Analytics)

Senior HR Executive – APAC Compensation & Benefits (Strategy & Analytics)

About Our Client

Our client is a highly respected and established manufacturing MNC boasting a fantastic corporate culture with exciting career mobility and growth potential, something they are famous for worldwide. The organization is undergoing excellent growth throughout the APAC region and this function is a big opportunity to elevate its regional HR capabilities by transitioning its Compensation & Benefits (C&B) function toward high-level, data-driven analytics.This is a highly strategic role with a regional scope of work and presents itself as a fantastic opportunity for a highly driven and capable HR Executive who will have a strong C&B background truly driving a strategic analysis of C&B forward and owning various initiatives.

The Opportunity

Reporting directly to the Regional HR Manager, this highly specialized role requires a bold, analytical C&B expert ready to take absolute ownership of salary benchmarking, internal equity, compensation planning, and benefits management across the APAC region. This is not an administrative payroll processing role; it is a highly strategic position requiring the ability to build advanced compensation models, analyze market percentiles, and confidently present recommendations to regional and global executives. The successful candidate must be resilient, highly autonomous, and ready to drive strategic direction independently. You will also have fantastic visibility and exposure across a very passionate company, dealing directly with the C-Level team and must display confidence as such presenting complex trends and information in an easy to understand manner.

Key Responsibilities

Most crucially, work with C-Level and the Regional Management to formulate a new strategy for C&B management. In particular, to determine the company's intended positioning, where/how to compete and how to better evaluate risks.

Take independent ownership of regional C&B analysis, superimposing different datasets to execute merit metrics, bonus calculations, and comprehensive compensation costing.

Navigate immediate market pressures in Malaysia, specifically calculating the financial impacts of upcoming new minimum wages and auditing internal equity to secure workforce retention.

Expand C&B governance and data analytics to support management decisions across the broader APAC footprint, recommending appropriate benchmarks, new data models as well as analyzing insights across the region.

Leverage recognized salary surveys (for example, Willis Towers Watson, Mercer, MEF) to interpret market percentiles against external benchmarks and establish reliable regional compensation data. Introduce your own perspective, resources and flair to enrichen the process and create a robust framework for accurate analysis.

Translate complex data sets into clear business stories by presenting findings, identifying financial risks, proposing proactive actions, and respectfully challenging management assumptions.

Oversee statutory compliance (e.g., EPF, EIS, tax, RBA-related wages) and manage benefits administration, such as medical insurance renewals and coverage sufficiency. Provide advice and introduce predictive modelling where possible.

Qualifications & Requirements

Experience: 5 to 8 years of relevant HR experience with substantial, hands‑on involvement in Compensation & Benefits. Generalist HR or payroll‑only processing experience will not qualify for this position. We are looking for a true C&B strategist first. A deep thinker with analytical skills.

Industry Knowledge: Manufacturing experience is strongly preferred to fully understand shift allowances, overtime structuring, and critical technical labor markets (technicians, production, engineers).

Technical Tools: Advanced Excel proficiency is mandatory for managing large employee datasets, utilizing pivot tables and VLOOKUP for example, and building complex compensation models. PowerBI experience is a useful advantage. Other technical tools, or AI driven approaches will be listened to and considered.

Working Style: Must be mature, detail-oriented, and entirely comfortable taking ownership of confidential global compensation data.