Sr. Analyst Total Rewards

Company Description

Since launching in Kuwait in 2004, talabat, the leading on-demand food and Q-commerce app for everyday deliveries, has been offering convenience and reliability to its customers. talabat’s local roots run deep, offering a real understanding of the needs of the communities we serve in eight countries across the region.
We harness innovative technology and knowledge to simplify everyday life for our customers, optimize operations for our restaurants and local shops, and provide our riders with reliable earning opportunities daily.
At talabat, we foster an innovative environment where our talabaty employees can strive to create a positive impact across the region through the use of our platform.

Job Description

Role Summary

The Total Rewards Sr. Analyst will play a key role in Total Rewards function

Leading the development & implementation of advanced analytics & reporting solutions within Total Rewards. While working on functional activities including the annual compensation cycle, creating salary benchmarks and designing compensation structures. 

This role will create, manage and maintain Rewards Analytical dashboards, conduct data analysis, and reporting using confidential information within People. The role will focus on ensuring alignment with Talabat's strategic business goals, focusing on compensation design, cost modeling, equity, and track fair pay and D&I efforts.

Additionally, the Senior Analyst will assist in bonus and incentive plan analysis and support the implementation of new reward systems as needed. 

What’s On Your Plate?

• Analytics & Reporting:

  • Dashboard and Reporting

    • Lead the creation, management, and maintenance of Total Rewards analytical dashboards to track key metrics 

    • Provides regular analysis, research & run needed simulations to support the execution of total rewards projects & processes while implementing solutions that align with business direction

  • Data Visualization: 

    • Demonstrate expertise in data visualization, presenting complex data in clear, actionable formats.

    • Apply visualization best practices to ensure the clarity and accuracy of the information presented.

    • Able to use tools like Tableau, Looker, Google Data Studio, or similar to create visual reports that support strategic planning and decision-making) 

• Compensation & Salary Benchmarking: 

  • Conduct salary benchmarking exercises to ensure internal equity and competitive external positioning for base pay, bonuses, incentives, and long-term incentives (LTIs)

  • Analyze market trends and compensation structures to inform salary positioning and pay strategy.

• Salary Structure design: Develop and maintain salary structures that support internal equity and external market competitiveness, considering factors such as salary progression, skills-based premiums, and performance-related pay for all comp components ( base, bonus, sales incentives, LTIs)

• Cost Modeling & Budgeting:

  • Providing costing & modeling capability for annual budgeting cycle, Pay Review cycles and off-cycle solutions

  • Partner with cross functional stakeholder (Finance , HR teams) on cost modeling activities 

  • Benefit modeling & costing (good to have): Analyse market trends and areas of improvement for Benefits offering and develop modelling solutions

• Bonus & Incentive Plans: 

  • Assist in bonus and incentive plan analysis 

  • Support the calculation and payout of management bonuses, ensuring accuracy and fairness in the process.

• Collaboration & Stakeholder Management:

  • Collaborate & partner with the Rewards team to support the planning, design, and execution of compensation and rewards initiatives, including the Year-end salary review process.

  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with key stakeholders, including HR Business Partners, Analytics team, the Payroll team, the Finance team, and build strong relationships with internal stakeholders in order to offer and receive assistance where necessary. 

• Project Management: 

  • Owning and leading assigned projects from end to end while collaborating and working with other functions/working groups where required.

  • Working with the People - Rewards team on a variety of projects. 

• Annual Compensation Survey Participation: Experience with participate in annual compensation surveys by collecting & submitting company compensation data

Qualifications

What Did We Order?

Experience: 

• A minimum of 3-5 years’ experience in HR Analytics, Compensation & Benefits, or Rewards Consulting is preferred

• Experience in analyzing and presenting compensation data using advanced data analysis and visualization tools.

Skills & Expertise: 

• Strong knowledge of analytics tools like Excel, Google sheets, Tableau, Power BI etc

• [Good to have] Experience with advanced analytics techniques such as regression, forecasting, adjusted analysis

• Stakeholder management and project management and collaboration

• Presenting outcomes through presentation summary and pitch

• Ability to influence stakeholders with a data-driven approach.

• Self-Management:

  • Independent, data driven, a self-starter and a natural ability to lead & collaborate with project team

  • Confident in their technical proficiency and able to share their thoughts openly, as well as coach colleagues

• Adaptability & Efficiency:

  • Comfortable working in a constantly changing environment, managing multiple tasks, and meeting tight deadlines.

  • High attention to detail and the ability to manage and organize data from multiple sources for rewards-related projects.