Associate Director - Regional Compensation

Who You'll Work With

You will be based in one of our global office in Eastern Europe, Middle East
and Africa region as part of our regional people leadership team, working
directly with the regional human resources leader and regional people leader
and collaborating with cell leaders across the region (regional leaders,
office managers, functional and industry cell leaders, client capability
network leaders).
You will also work closely with market compensation leads (MCLs, responsible
for local execution) in every market within Eastern Europe, Middle East and
Africa and convene this group. You will collaborate with HR, professional
development and recruiting leaders in the region to ensure compensation
strategy is meeting needs and advancing our people mission of attracting and
retaining the top talent. You will have extensive exposure to all service
lines of the global compensation function.

What You'll Do

You will lead initiatives across compensation strategy and execution in the
region and beyond.
In this role, you will lead the implementation strategy across all paths:
client service professionals, engagement service professionals and firm
service professionals. You will work closely with cell leaders to ensure
global compensation strategy is adapted to the region and each local market.
You will serve as a critical thought partner to the global compensation
function as global initiatives are designed and ultimately implemented.
You will convene the market compensation leads' community in the region. You
will provide oversight, guidance and coaching to office and practice market
compensation leads as needed (acting as the primary point of contact on
specific questions, exceptions and special situations). You will lead efforts
to implement global compensation initiatives within the region including
compensation for new and or redefining paths. You will partner with regional
HR and people leaders (RPLs) as well as local stakeholders on both strategy
and execution.
In addition to regional responsibilities, you will lead one or more global
strategic initiatives per year (e.g., new paths, enhancing digitization) or
other priorities as identified by the compensation policy committee. You will
be relied upon to be a critical thought partner for our market compensation
leads as they operationalize, which includes helping them problem solve local
issues, individual tough cases as well as orchestrating the appropriate
communications around compensation. You will drive strategic problem solving
and initiatives for the region, bringing to bear knowledge and expertise that
solves for local context and markets (e.g., high inflation) while balancing
global philosophy/requirements.
You will have extensive cross functional exposure including, and not limited
to the Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa region, across cell and people
leaders, across the people function (e.g., HR, professional development,
talent, recruiting) and as relevant with other functions (e.g. finance, legal,
mobility, etc.).

Qualifications

• University degree; master's degree is a plus


• ‎15+ years of relevant experience including ideally experience in compensation, advanced analytics, HR/professional development


• Extensive experience driving complex projects to completion at professional services or in a similar environment


• Advanced knowledge of Excel, Word and PowerPoint


• High level of maturity in particular as it relates to sensitive compensation information


• Outstanding organizational skills and attention to detail coupled with the ability to see big-picture trends


• Ability to thrive under pressure and multi-task


• Entrepreneurial and self-directed


• Excellent communication and presence with senior leaders