Head of Total Rewards

**About Thunes**

Thunes is a global, fast-growing, and innovative Fintech scale-up that uses technology to disrupt and transform the existing financial system.

We have a strong Mission: to create a better global payments network, and a great Purpose: to connect the world to economic opportunities and address systemic inequality when it comes to financial services.

We are proud to power payments for the world's fastest-growing businesses and work with some of the amazing global brands - from Gig Economy giants such as Uber and Deliveroo and Southeast Asia's super-app Grab, to global Fintech leaders such as PayPal and Remitly.

Our Products help to drastically simplify the Payment integration experience for our customers: with a single, simple connection, businesses and consumers can send payments to - and get paid in - every corner of the world. Instantly.

Thunes is headquartered in Singapore with regional offices in London, Paris, Barcelona, Shanghai, New York, Dubai, and Nairobi.

**Context of the role**

Reporting to the Chief People Officer, this global individual contributor position will look at compensation, benefits, and recognition design globally. You will be responsible for compensation/benefits benchmarking, design for compensation/benefits programs, making area expertise recommendations, and implementing approved plans.

In addition to the above responsibilities, this role will own the creation of a formal job leveling/mapping and basic career laddering.

This position would be ideal for someone who has built a career in Total Reward and is looking to create a world-class, scalable Total Rewards program at a well-funded Fintech company. The role offers the rare opportunity to create things the way you have always imagined in a global company that is growing rapidly.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Design and create a job leveling framework and ensure all jobs in Thunes get matched based on this methodology
- Design a comprehensive compensation framework, ensuring clear and up-to-date salary bands for all roles across all regions
- Design compensation strategy, ensuring competitive pay and in compliance with our diversity and inclusion strategy
- Conduct cost analysis for proposals and ensure the strategy is underpinned by a clear cost strategy
- Ensure we have clear approvals processes to maintain a 'clean' compensation framework and exceptions are considered based on a clear set of objective criteria
- Own benefits framework across the global organization, implementing new countries as we continue to scale
- Manage the relationship with brokers and insurance/benefits providers
- Identify ways to optimize costs whilst offering an exciting and competitive range of benefits to employees
- Ensure Total Rewards information is available to employees, driving self-service and reducing the number of queries received by our People Operations team
- Implement the necessary processes and training to empower leaders to take the right decisions in relation to compensation and benefits
- Manage equity plans and external providers/platform

**Professional Experience/Qualifications**
- Bachelor's degree and/ or hold a relevant recognised professional/ chartered qualification
- Extensive knowledge of compensation and benefits programs with a minimum of 10 years of progressive experience gained within high-growth tech organisations
- Able to multitask and be solution focused, with a track record of successfully implementing reward programs as well as solid experience in managing and supporting transactional activities
- Expertise and experience in leading multi-country total reward programs and practices and applicable legislation
- Strategic thinker - aligns employee reward opportunities with the organisation's desired commercial outcomes
- Deep knowledge of job evaluation methodologies and hands-on experience in utilising various methodologies in previous roles
- Proven strong problem-solving and decision-making skills, and the ability to work with multiple stakeholders and work on tight deadlines
- Strong data modeling and analytics skills and advanced proficiency in Excel are essential
- Ability to effectively influence people and get results through others
- Growing, solving, experimenting, iterating, and getting things done with persistence and passion