Manager: Compensation & Reward at Prudential Life Assurance Kenya

The Person:

• Prudential Africa is looking for a person with experience of working in high growth frontier and emerging insurance markets. You will be based in the regional head office in Nairobi, Kenya.
• You will be self-motivated, comfortable with significant ambiguity and prepared to apply your Reward expertise hands-on to small and large tasks as we strive to deliver our ambition.
• You will need to enjoy working in a fast-paced environment.

Job Scope:

• The job holder will report directly to the Director, Total Reward supporting all aspects of Reward in the Africa regional team.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Prepare monthly compensation and benefits reports as part of the overall HR reporting
• Advise business and liaise with internal stakeholders on benefits issues
• Support LBU HRDs in the People Review process
• Ensure completeness and accuracy of myHR (Workday) data in collaboration with the HRDS and myHR Team
• People cost budgeting and control for ARH and consolidation of LBU budgets-annual budgets
• Understand the benchmarking process and assist in ensuring consistency of benchmarking application. Contribute to benchmarking activities by supporting pay and benefits survey input and subsequent data analysis for decision making
• Supervise monthly compensation and benefits invoicing (charge back) for LBUs and RHO and auditing to ensure reconciliation with payroll billing
• Monthly Payroll processing including payroll reconciliations and preparation of payroll schedules
• Partner with payroll vendors to ensure RHO & LBUS Compliance
• Support the Global Mobility Team with Work Permit applications by coordinating the vendor activities

Core Competences Required:

• Demonstrable experience with Human resource metrics and analytics
• Attention to detail and excellent data analytics skills
• Excellent networks and knowledge of the market/competitor analysis
• Broad knowledge of all aspects of the compensation and benefits portfolio, external vendors
• Excellent listening, communication, negotiation, interpersonal and presentation skills
• Proficient in MS Office suite
• Excellent active listening, negotiation, and presentation skills
• Good knowledge of Labour and income tax laws and reward best practices
• Able to prioritise and manage complex reward projects and programmes independently
• Ability to handle confidential information and sensitive situations considerately
• Ability to coordinate and manage content across HR functional areas
• Pro-active, customer focused and able to show initiative to constantly improve the reward offering to the business.

Qualifications & Experience

• Minimum Bachelor's Degree in Business or equivalent from a leading University
• Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resources Management/CHRM from the Institute of Human Resource Management, Kenya, or equivalent
• Be in good standing with the Institute of Human Resource Management (Kenya)
• 5 years' experience with 3+ years working as a Reward Analyst preferably in a global organisation with a strong track record of delivering a broad range of reward initiatives in a complex environment.
• Generalist HR experience beyond compensation and benefits would be advantageous