Description
Our Client
A privately held Canadian professional services firm specializing in actuarial consulting, pensions, employee benefits, investment advisory, and compensation solutions for institutional and corporate clients.
Role Overview
A national professional services organization is seeking a Senior Manager, Total Rewards to lead the design, execution, and continuous enhancement of compensation, benefits, payroll oversight, and total rewards programs. This role partners closely with senior leaders to ensure programs are competitive, equitable, compliant, and aligned with business objectives.
The successful candidate will advance total rewards strategy, strengthen governance and compliance, enhance employee experience, and lead a high-performing team.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and evolve total rewards programs aligned with market practices, pay equity principles, and legislative requirements
- Provide strategic advisory support to leadership on compensation competitiveness, internal equity, and talent retention
- Lead job evaluation, market benchmarking, and internal equity analysis
- Oversee and advance pay equity and employment equity practices
- Ensure compliance with compensation, benefits, payroll, and employment-related legislation, including proactive monitoring of regulatory changes
- Lead benefits strategy, vendor management, renewals, cost analysis, and employee communications
- Provide oversight of payroll and benefits administration to ensure accuracy, compliance, and data integrity
- Enhance HRIS data governance, reporting, and analytics to support informed decision-making
- Collaborate cross-functionally to drive consistency and best practices in total rewards
- Lead, coach, and develop members of the Total Rewards team
- Monitor market and regulatory trends to inform ongoing program evolution
Qualifications
- University degree in Business, Human Resources, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- Professional designation in compensation and/or benefits preferred
- 7+ years of progressive experience in compensation and benefits leadership
- Strong expertise in pay equity, job levelling, market benchmarking, and compliance
- Working knowledge of compensation, benefits, payroll, and employment legislation
- Experience overseeing payroll and benefits administration
- Strong analytical skills and experience leveraging HRIS and data analytics
- Demonstrated project management and stakeholder leadership capability
- Proven people leadership experience
- Experience with modern HRIS/payroll systems preferred
- Bilingual capability considered an asset
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