SINDHUJA SK
Reward Manager
Bangalore
Summary
Goal-oriented and Innovative Reward and Compensation professional with a total of 10+ years of experience and 6+ years of experience in Salary benchmarking, Compensation structuring, Salary Surveys, Bonus programs, Pay review programs, Pay Strategies as per current market conditions and Reward and Benefits programs.
Strong relationship-building, decision-making and multitasking abilities with sound judgment and knowledge abilities and a keen observer who is always ready to learn. Experienced in collaborating effectively with senior management at all levels including CEO and Directors to enable continued business success. Great vendor relations, program leadership and analytical problem-solving abilities.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Reward Manager - India and UK
Equiniti India
Bangalore
09.2022 - Current
- Responsible for Annual Merit increase, Pay ranges and Bonus according to established guidelines while ensuring legal compliance regarding minimum wage requirements for UK, India, US and Poland.
- Monitored budgets and expenditures to ensure cost-effectiveness while maintaining quality standards.
- Provided consultation to management on labor law compliance on benchmarking related to wages, salaries and other forms of Compensation and Benefits.
- Monitored wage and salary trends in local markets to ensure internal equity and external competitiveness in compensation plans and made recommendations based upon in-depth research on current job trends.
- Participated in survey activities using Willis Towers Watsons, to benchmark the company's position against its competitors.
- Analyzed organizational structure and developed competitive salary structures and pay ranges for various positions.
- Review and analyze new job descriptions to determine appropriate salary grades and pay ranges.
- Researching Employee and Company Reward & Benefit policies and practices, recommending changes or modifications. Oversaw enrollment of new employees and company-wide yearly enrollment period and conducted webinars on the same.
- Worked with cross-functional departments to achieve goals.
- Regular meetings with Senior management team and CEO for feedback and to update on the current and future plans for the Reward team.
- Prepared reports related to salary data analysis for senior management review and action plans to ensure pay equity among the employees.
- Workday - Testing, Review and feedback on Pay review and Bonus process implementation and also reviewing existing processes to enhance performance and add new features.
- Analyzed business process flows and identified areas where automation could be implemented using Workday tools.
- Participated in design reviews and performance tuning activities in Workday.
- Performed audits of vendor invoices against contracts terms to verify accuracy prior to payment being processed.
- Assisted in developing communication materials for benefit-related topics such as open enrollment, wellness initiatives or changes in plan designs.
- Responsible for yearly renegotiation/renewal processes with each provider.
- Collaborated closely with HR and Finance department related to improving administrative efficiencies around employee Benefits and Compensation.
- Advising human resource staff members regarding pay decisions.
- Evaluated requests for special salary adjustments including promotions, discretionary pay and market adjustments.
- Delegated work to staff, setting priorities and goals.
Senior Analyst - Rewards & Benefits
ANHEUSER-BUSCH INBEV (AB InBev)
Bangalore
06.2021 - 09.2022
- Job profile grading and Local Job creation for all the employee levels across Zone Europe.
- Annual Hay survey - Compensation Benchmarking & Benefits Benchmarking for Zone Europe.
- Annual Bonus cycle for Executive employees across Zone Europe, Liaise with Business partners and Global team for accurate data.
- Annual Merit process for Zone Europe and created a dashboard to identify the Merit distribution across various categories.
- Responsible for Master data KPI's dashboard and ensuring accuracy and quality across various processes.
- Responsible for Compa ratio and compensation data accuracy checks in Workday.
- Highlight any discrepancies to the technical team to ensure the logic is accurate.
- Highlight any compensation gaps with respect to Time in Band of the employees and Market reference data. Liaise with Business partners to understand gaps and highlight to the leadership team for next steps to maintain a healthy Compa ratio.
- Fleet management for Belgium employees.
Senior Associate - HR Admin (Rewards, Benefits, Compensation and Employee Relations)
TESCO BUSINESS SERVICES
Bangalore
08.2017 - 06.2021
- Managed Country-wide Bonus program and other Compensation projects and oversaw analysis and comparison of positions and salaries in markets.
- Participated in Willis Towers Watsons and Mercer salary surveys to benchmark Company salary and benefits against the competitors.
- Redundancy projects for Tesco Ireland.
- Employee Relations - Investigated if stores/management are following the right policies, procedures and legislative laws while investigating disciplinary matters, grievances and appeals and advise on step by step investigation procedures to avoid any potential grievances against the Company.
- Issued warning, grievance, appeal letters etc, adhering to Statutory compliance and Legislative laws.
- Handling and making changes to Policies including Disciplinary matters (warnings and dismissals), Grievances and Appeals for Tesco Ireland.
- Contracts (offer letters) for store level colleagues and also streamlined the process.
- Managed over 10+ Reward & Benefits projects for Tesco Ireland colleagues (subsidiary of Tesco UK).
Associate - Expense Reimbursements
TESCO BUSINESS SERVICES
Bangalore
03.2016 - 08.2017
- Validation of colleagues' expenses forms and proofs and reimburse accordingly for Tesco UK colleagues with employee strength of approximately 4,20,000.
- Issue of Corporate Cards for the Company colleagues and tracking the spend.
- Ensure refunds/claims are completed by the colleagues in a timely manner by performing weekly reconciliation tasks.
- Streamlined Personal Spend process which resulted in monetary benefit of approximately €5000.
Executive HR
TARGET CORPORATION
Bangalore
06.2012 - 08.2014
- Audit and update colleagues' personal records for Target US colleagues and process their promotions, demotions, annual review, secondments, transfers, terminations and rehire, on Peoplesoft (HRIS system)
- Colleagues' pay and benefits calculation by liaising with HR Business partners and Stakeholders
- Employee Verification Process for US colleagues.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics
Jain University
Bangalore06.2012
Skills
- Salary Analysis and Benchmarking
- Salary Surveys
- Compensation Structuring
- Setting competitive Pay ranges as per market standards
- Benefits Management and Implementation
- Employee Relations
- Project Management
- People Management
- Vendor Management
- Analytical Skills
- Policy Creation
- Labour law Compliance
- Continuous Improvement
Websites
Professional Highlights
- Implemented Annual Merit process and Bonus process on Workday.
- Implemented changes to Insurance policy with best rates (40% reduction in prices) for Parental and first time with Top Up cover options and enhanced/new covers, which increased the employee enrollment for Parental Insurance by 50%, and now in the process of launching Out Patient Department plan and Benefits platform.
- Implemented enhanced allowances for employees based on Company strategy and market data.
- Implemented new compensation structures to suit respective department needs based on Company goals.
- Implemented new pay range calculations for India to suit the market conditions and to be competitive as a growing Company.
- Implementing a project to maintain right job levels and salaries across the Company.
- Salary analysis and dashboard creation for Management team and action plans where required to ensure corrective action taken in collaboration with multiple departments and HRBP's.
- Implemented enhanced EAP for employees with a new vendor with more wellness options.
- Built incentive structures with multiple simulations which saves approx 450,000 Euros to the company.
- Built budgeting model to forecast the cost to the company to bring employees to reach certain compa ratio given their position's high value in the industry
- Achieved 100% quality scores on a consistent basis in Training and Quality Assurance.
- Periodic Service Management and Budget reporting to Leadership team, using dashboards
- Created video based and textual SOPs, reference documents, risk registers and templates for various processes.
- Submitted ideas which save approximately 55 hours annually in the Reward and Benefits projects.
- Revised Service level agreement on Turnaround time for Appeals/Grievances from 2 to 5 days.
- Member of Automation anywhere project for People team to identify processes for automation.
Systems And Tools
- HRIS tools - Workday, SAP and Peoplesoft
- Qlik sense
- Basics of Power BI
- MS Word, Advanced Excel, PowerPoint
- SharePoint
- Zendesk
- ARIS
- Microsoft Visio process mapping tools
Certification
- Continuous Improvement
Languages
Telugu
First Language
English
Advanced (C1)
C1
Hindi
Intermediate (B1)
B1
Tamil
Elementary (A2)
A2
Kannada
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2
Timeline
Reward Manager - India and UK
Equiniti India
09.2022 - Current
Senior Analyst - Rewards & Benefits
ANHEUSER-BUSCH INBEV (AB InBev)
06.2021 - 09.2022
Senior Associate - HR Admin (Rewards, Benefits, Compensation and Employee Relations)
TESCO BUSINESS SERVICES
08.2017 - 06.2021
Associate - Expense Reimbursements
TESCO BUSINESS SERVICES
03.2016 - 08.2017
Executive HR
TARGET CORPORATION
06.2012 - 08.2014
Bachelor of Science - Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics
Jain University
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