Total Rewards Analyst

Role Overview

This role sits at the centre of how the organisation pays, rewards, and protects its people across multiple countries. You will manage the full mechanics of compensation and benefits administration—from salary changes and bonus inputs to commission runs and medical scheme reconciliations—while ensuring every figure is accurate, authorised, and audit-ready before it moves to payroll. Day to day, you act as the principal builder of payroll data and the first line of defence on statutory compliance, preparing everything for a supervisor’s independent review so that the Group’s reward operations run without error, delay, or regulatory exposure.

Key Responsibilities

• Compensation administration and analytics: Translate approved salary increments, promotions, structural pay changes, and bonus decisions into precise payroll inputs for each entity and payroll cycle.
• Data validation and control: Check every compensation variation against its authorised source document before submission, maintaining a clear audit trail from HR decision to payroll upload.
• Market benchmarking: Use salary survey data to produce comparison reports that inform HR business partner conversations and annual pay review recommendations.
• FA remuneration and commissions: Load and validate monthly commission files, run audits on calculated payouts, administer subsidies, cashier bonds, and loan/mortgage schemes, and prepare payment files for Financial Advisors outside the standard payroll run.
• Benefits scheme management: Oversee enrolment, deductions, and vendor coordination across medical insurance, group life, GPA/WIBA, pension, SACCO, and staff loans; reconcile schemes monthly to confirm that active staff and eligible advisors are correctly covered and vendor records match.
• Statutory compliance monitoring: Track and prepare payments for PAYE, NSSF, NHIF/SHIF, HELB, Housing Levy, NITA, FBT, and withholding tax across all operating jurisdictions, reviewing returns and certificates ahead of regulatory deadlines.
• Payroll cycle support: Receive and validate complex variation inputs from stakeholders, upload approved changes to the HRIS/payroll ERP, run pre-payroll sense checks, and contribute to post-payroll GL reconciliation by identifying reconciling items.
• Reporting and governance: Produce scheduled reports covering HR master data, IRA, loans, commission production, and budget utilisation; maintain HRIS data quality; respond to ad hoc reward data requests within agreed turnaround times.

Requirements & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Professional qualification in HR, Reward, or Finance—such as IHRM, CIPD, CPA, or equivalent.
• 3–5 years of progressive experience in compensation and benefits, payroll administration, or reward analytics, ideally in a multi-jurisdiction or shared-services environment.
• Hands-on experience with HRIS payroll and compensation modules, plus advanced Excel skills for modelling pay, calculating variances, and reconciling large datasets.
• Working knowledge of statutory compliance frameworks—including PAYE, NSSF, SHIF, and their equivalents—across the countries where the Group operates.
• Familiarity with FA or agency remuneration structures is an advantage because this role supports commission and variable pay for the entire distribution channel.