Principal Compensation Analyst India & APJ

Role Overview

The Principal Compensation Analyst India & APJ designs, optimizes, and executes data-driven compensation strategy across a diverse global footprint. Joining a commercially savvy team, you will blend analytical rigor with consulting acumen to ensure our rewards programs remain highly competitive, internally equitable, and compliant. This role operates as an expert practitioner who bridges global compensation strategies with regional labor market realities.

This role requires a sophisticated understanding of broad-based compensation, market realities, and the ability to translate complex data into actionable, business-focused insights for executive leadership. It also requires a deep expertise in regional compensation structures and compliance.

Key Responsibilities

- Business Consultation: Act as a high-impact internal consultant to People Business Partners and business leaders, providing data-backed recommendations on complex compensation challenges, offer formulations, and retention strategies.

- Job Architecture & Scaling: Drive the evolution of job family structures, career paths, and job leveling frameworks to support organizational scale, clarity, and internal equity.

- M&A Support: Provide strategic oversight for Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), leading reward integration, role mapping, and total rewards harmonization across newly acquired entities.

- Cyclical Reward Leadership: Lead the execution of global annual compensation planning (merit, promotions, bonuses, and Long-Term Incentives/LTI). Direct data validation, process automation, and the creation of executive-ready presentations for leadership approval.

- Market Intelligence & Benchmarking: Architect comprehensive total rewards benchmarking studies using global and salary surveys and internal analytics to continuously design competitive, localized salary structures. Participate in and analyze local/regional salary surveys.

- Regulatory Compliance & Local Governance: Serve as the deep expert on local regulatory compliance. Manage statutory pay requirements, including provident fund rules, gratuity structures, and severance pay frameworks.

- Data Governance: Champion data integrity across systems (Workday); conduct routine audits and leverage business intelligence to deliver predictive, executive-level reports on compensation metrics and trends.

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