*Perm- NEW* HR Specialist (Com&Ben)- East ( $5000-$5500) #NJE

RECRUIT EXPRESS PTE LTD; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm in Singapore is seeking a Compensation Manager to ensure compliance with compensation practices and manage the salary review process. This role involves analyzing employee needs, trends in benefits, and preparing detailed job descriptions for salary benchmarking. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills, experience in HR compliance, and a passion for employee engagement.

Qualifications

• Experience in compensation practices and compliance with local legislation.
• Strong analytical skills to assess employee needs and motivations.
• Ability to manage salary reviews, budget exercises, and benefits administration.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compensation practices comply with local legislation.
• Assess employee needs through organizational pulse surveys.
• Lead the annual salary review and bonus process.
• Analyze benefits trends and prepare job descriptions for benchmarking.
• Lead manpower budget exercise with Finance.
• Analyse benefits trends for competitive proposals.
• Draft and recommend revisions to leave policies.
• Prepare job descriptions and salary benchmarking.
• Participate in salary and labour market surveys.
• Deploy communication strategies and metrics.
• Conduct research on emerging compensation trends.
• Prepare ad-hoc data requests as required.

Job description

Responsibilities

• Ensure that compensation practices are in compliance with current legislation (internal pay equity, local legislations etc).
• Assess employees needs by conducting organisational pulse surveys to find out what motivates and engages employees.
• Use various methods and techniques and make data-based decisions on direct financial, indirect financial and nonfinancial compensations.
• Responsible for the end-to-end annual salary review and bonus process by working closely with all Business Line leaders to ensure salaries and bonuses proposed are within approved budget.
• Lead the annual manpower budget exercise jointly with Finance to ensure timely and in full submission of the budget.
• Analyse trends in benefits especially medical benefits and insurances for insights and market trends in developing a compelling and competitive proposal for annual insurances renewal and forward-looking benefits to attract, retain and motivate high quality employees.
• Benefits / Leave administrator: drafts and/or recommends revisions to company leave policies to ensure compliance with local laws and regulations. Manage and maintain the leave module in the HRIS system and full spectrum of benefit programs (for example, medical insurance, dental claim).
• Prepare job descriptions, job analysis, job evaluations and job classifications for internal and external salary benchmarking purposes.
• Participate in salary and labour market surveys to determine prevailing pay rates and benefits.
• Deploy effective communication strategies and success metrics.
• Conduct ongoing research into emerging trends, issues, and best practices.
• Conduct periodic audits and prepare ad-hoc data requests or reports as required (eg, employment trends such as salary expectations predictions for the new year).