Senior Total Rewards Partner

ApplyBoard simplifies the study abroad search, application, and acceptance process by connecting international students, recruitment partners, and academic institutions on one platform. With an exceptional team from around the world and speaking more than 75 languages, our diversity is one of our greatest strengths. Our core values, such as Caring About Each Other, Innovating and Improving, and Making Work Fun, propel us forward together and continuously strengthen our engaging culture. We are in growth mode and are looking to empower passionate and exceptionally talented team members.

The Opportunity:

To help create, frame, and build Total Rewards programs on a global scale. You will support and advise on a broad portfolio of programs, including global compensation and analysis, short-term incentive programs, group benefits plans, and people analytics dashboards.

You will be successful in this role if you're someone who has advanced analytical and problem-solving skills, strong data mining experience, and can take ownership of tasks and see them through to execution. While this isn't a people leadership role, your success will be based on building strong relationships with the business globally (employees and leaders) to assert yourself as a subject-matter expert on all total rewards topics.

What you'll be doing everyday:

• Be a key contributor to ApplyBoard's salary structure and compensation program, including sales compensation, ensuring compliance with relevant legislative requirements and applicable policies. Conduct analysis of both internal equity and external competitiveness. Collect, organize and report data for participation in industry surveys. Act as the first point of contact for all compensation requests.
• Advocate for and build system automation to reduce manual administration.
• Maintain the financial structure of ApplyBoard's Group Benefits programs in Canada, the US, and UK , ensuring employees are properly educated on the benefits available to them and that their coverage is accurate. . Provide analytical insight and provide a strong voice in meetings with third-party advisors to discuss plan status and/or review plan design.
• Develop a variety of communications and employee education materials and conduct training sessions across Total Rewards functional lines to employees across the globe..
• Provide enterprise-wide data analytics for People and Culture, including creating monthly, quarterly, annual and ad hoc metrics and presentations for senior leadership and the broader People and Culture team to analyze trends.
• Proactively participate in HRIS management by ensuring data accuracy and reconciliations. Document total rewards processes and maintain and educate the broader organization.

What you bring to the table:

• College or University degree in a related discipline, such as Human Resources, Mathematics, or Business.
• Completion or working towards a Certified Employee Benefits Specialist and/or Certified Compensation Specialist designation is preferred.
• Minimum 5 years experience working in a Total Rewards function as an Analyst or Specialist. Must have directly managed compensation programs, sales compensation,, and annual total rewards cycles (i.e. merit and variable pay). Prior experience administering stock plans is an asset, but not required. Knowledge of group benefits is an asset.
• A minimum of 1 year of experience generating robust People Analytics dashboards is required.
• Intermediate to advanced level Microsoft Excel skills required. Must have experience using Excel to analyze large data sets quickly and accurately (i.e. basic formulas, VLOOKUPS, SUMIFS, Pivot Tables). Familiarity with Google Sheets is an asset.

Ideally, you also have experience with some of:

Workday HRIS or BI reporting experience from another HRIS