HR Jobs Johannesburg – HR Specialist

Job Description:

Sappi Southern Africa requires an HR Specialist: Remuneration and Benefits to be responsible for providing market analytics, data modelling, benchmarking, internal/external research and governance input for remuneration matters including pay, benefits, short-and long-term incentives. The role holder will be required to provide data-driven recommendations on compensation programmes and their delivery to ensure that Sappi can remain competitive from a remuneration point of view.

Job Responsibilities:

• Engage with technology teams who support core HR systems (SAP, SuccessFactors Employee Central and Cornerstone) to enable clean and well-structured data.
• Research includes all levels – from entry-level employees to executive remuneration and board level.
• Determine which HR-related decisions could benefit from predictive analytics and work with IT to develop the models and inputs to enable it.
• Prepare Sappi’s submissions for compensation and benefits surveys in the formats required by the benchmarking companies used by the company.
• Work with IT to create data visualization and reporting tools that are end-user friendly using the Tableau application in use in Sappi.
• Scope the benchmarking requirements and manage the service contracts with the providers.
• Perform financial modelling to analyse the costs of various compensation programmes (pay, benefits and incentives) as well as for scenario planning during compensation reviews (increases and bonuses).
• Act as custodian for HR data analytics by defining data definitions and structures for all HR master data (not just compensation).
• Research compensation trends using third party benchmarking providers.
• Use compensation data (internal and external) to provide recommendations to HR managers and business partners regarding appropriate offers for new hires, internal appointments, and promotions
• Extract reports and perform analytics on the survey results.
• Participate in the redesign of remuneration structures using the outcomes of the analytics.

Job Requirements:

• Chartered Reward Specialist accreditation with the SA Reward Association
• Bachelors’ Degree in Finance, Industrial Engineering or Data Science
• Heavy industry remuneration experience
• 5 years+ experience in remuneration or business analytics
• Previous experience working with remuneration structures in Payroll and Tax functions
• Postgraduate qualification in taxation is an advantage
• Significant experience in data analytics and financial modelling

Job Details:

Company: Sappi

Vacancy Type: Full Time

Job Location: Johannesburg

Application Deadline: N/A

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