People Operations Lead: Compensation and Benefits Specialist at Flutterwave

The role: People Operations Lead: Compensation & Benefit Specialist will primarily provide support to the People & Culture team and collaborate with other team members to ensure optimal employee experience for Flutterwave employees

What Your Day-to-Day Activities Will Be Like 

Compensation and Benefit Administration:

• Design compensation packages based on business goals and strategy.
• Create a consistent compensation guideline that matches our work and organizational culture
• Conduct salary and labor market research to define benchmarks
• Assess employees needs by conducting periodic organizational surveys
• Keep abreast with new trend and best practice in the filed
• Ensure that compensation practices are in compliance with current laws and regulations across all work locations
• Conduct periodic audits, prepare and present reports
• Ensures accuracy of all new hire benefits and appropriate enrollments
• Support in the preparation of monthly Payroll schedule
• Responds to benefits inquiries from managers and employees on plan provisions, benefits enrollments, status changes and other general inquiries,
• Ensure all statutory remittances are administered for all categories of resources within regulatory timelines.
• Tracks all employee contributions and company matches to ensure compliance with regulations.
• Manage the development, implementation, and administration of compensation programs

HR Compliance:

• Measuring current compliance with relevant legislation across the board
• Developing and implementing improvement plans
• Ensuring we meet all standards required for external financial & regulatory audits
• Advising departments on how to improve continuously.
• Comply with federal, state, and local legal requirements by studying existing and new legislation; anticipating legislation; enforcing adherence to requirements; advising management on needed actions

Policy and Process Management:

• periodic review of staff handbook, policies and procedures with support from the legal team to facilitate a better compliance stance.
• Collaborating with the legal department to communicate the associated requirements with every applicable HR-based regulatory, legal and compliance training programs.
• Staying up to date on every employee-based regulatory and legislative changes and/or modifications and ensuring that developments in rules and policies are restructured with HR practices, articles, policies, and systems.
• Researching changes in rules and regulations, analyzing their effect on the company, and communicating findings report the leadership team

Educate and train:

• Educate employees about all regulatory and legal requirements that can affect the organization.
• Responsible for the preparation and delivery of HR compliance-based communications and training to employees.
• Provide support in organizing routine People related Compliance Training

Conducting background checks on prospective employees: which includes reference, address, previous employer verification, criminal records check.

• Provide support in conducting employee-related investigations
• Handling sensitive employee data or reports in a discreet manner
• HR Audit: provide support for all audit exercise, both internally and external

Employee Engagement/Relations:

• Support employees on a day-to-day basis and answer questions about benefits and company policies and processes.
• Advise employees, managers and PBP regarding policy interpretation.
• Assist with the development of communication strategies for new policies, programs and procedures.

Exit Management

• Manage in collaboration with the PBP’s and team leads the transition process of all categories of resources
• Ensure all exit documentations are fully executed by all stakeholders
• Be a key player in the evaluation, implementations and support of all people ops projects
• Take responsibility for tracking timelines & milestones that will lead to the successful implementation of projects
• Participates in developing team goals, objectives, and systems
• Any other duties as assigned

Required competency and skillset to be a waver

• At least 8 years of progressive experience in Human Resources with a minimum of 5 years managing compensation & benefit
• Strong track-record in policy development and implementation with good verbal and written communication skills.
• Great attention to detail and ability to multitask in a fast-paced Tech environment
• Tech savvy with good knowledge of Google Suite and Microsoft Offices
• Strategic thinker; deploying proactive approach in the execution of daily responsibilities
• Exhibit high level of understanding as regards confidentiality
• Ability to handle pressure/conflict.
• Self-motivated.
• Great team player/collaborator
• Excellent Interpersonal and problem-solving Skills
• Be honest and reliable
• Must be able to work with minimal supervision.