About the Role
We are seeking a dynamic Total Rewards Leader who possesses a deep understanding of global reward strategies across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, along with experience in startup/scaleup cultures. This senior team role presents an opportunity to work in a growing organization where a go-getter spirit and customer orientation are as valued as technical excellence. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills and a strategic mindset, with proven leadership experience in delivering compensation, benefits, immigration, and mobility activities in a high-growth environment.
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Location: Johannesburg, Dubai, Athens
Candidate Profile
- A commercially-minded Total Reward leader with proven experience diagnosing, designing, and delivering cost-effective reward frameworks in high-growth, international, technology-led, or fintech organizations, ideally including African and Asian markets.
- Comfortable operating at both strategic and hands-on levels, using data, benchmarking, and market insight to shape competitive, scalable, and equitable compensation and benefits offerings across multiple countries.
- Passionate about building transparent, employee-centric reward philosophies, effectively partnering with senior leaders, and navigating complex regulatory environments with sound judgment and integrity.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee the development and execution of a comprehensive and standardized compensation structure across all functions, regions, and levels within the organization, including base pay, variable pay programs, sales incentives, long and short-term incentive plans, stock options, and executive compensation.
- Own and administer immigration and relocation/mobility activities, coordinating and managing relocations and commuter programs, EEA arrangements, work permits, and related reward elements (correct ICP and equity tax allocation and recording across jurisdictions, equal pay calculations, FX equalization allowances, and payments coordination with relevant payroll teams) and local authority reporting.
- Liaise with senior leadership and the Legal team on all legal issues relating to compensation and benefits, maintaining a working knowledge of local laws, customs, and practices influencing compensation and benefits.
- Provide relevant data and recommendations to guide decision-making related to compensation, organizational structure, attrition, promotions, and other people-related activities.
- Analyze trends in the business, economy, and employment marketplace to identify issues and opportunities to enhance global workforce planning strategies.
- Facilitate the process of job evaluation and salary surveys, advise on salary budgets, and prepare policies and procedures to ensure equitable and competitive employee compensation.
- Monitor, evaluate, and harmonize the company's benefits programs, ensuring they are globally aligned, locally relevant, cost-effective, flexible, consistently applied, and do not expose the company to undue risks.
- Lead on communicating the company compensation philosophy and framework to employee and manager groups, delivering associated training as required.
- Train regional and local People team members to support compensation, benefit, and reward programs.
- Manage vendor performance and relationships, ensuring ROI.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience fully owning the international Compensation & Benefits agenda of a company across several countries in Africa, Asia, and beyond.
- A passion for data-driven, people-centric, and business-oriented compensation philosophy and practices.
- Experience in a remuneration and compensation environment in the countries where the company operates.
- Ability to create effective working partnerships with key stakeholders.
- Experience in a challenging, dynamic, and complex business environment with a focus on multiculturalism and internationalism.
- Ability to quickly build trust with staff, vendors, and partners.
- Strong diplomatic and interpersonal skills with high levels of professionalism and integrity.
- Knowledge of in-country employment regulations and the ability to apply them to the company.
- Proven experience conducting total reward benchmarking using formal third-party data and conducting full job architecture and evaluation systems.
- Ability to plan and prioritize work under tight deadlines, work on own initiative, and as a member of a team.
- Proven experience educating employees and managers about transparent compensation philosophy and framework.
Why the company?
The company is a high-growth, AI-powered financial infrastructure platform serving over 432 million users in emerging markets across Africa and Asia. By harnessing the power of AI and real-time data, we unlock financial opportunities for customers. We have been recognized as a top fintech by Forbes Middle East, culminating in a successful JSE listing in 2025. At the company, our global team builds the tech, products, and services that will change the game for the world’s unbanked population. We empower our people by offering unique employee experiences and supporting individual careers by prioritizing well-being and embracing flexibility.
Benefits
- Work From Anywhere Policy
- Competitive remuneration package
- Performance-based bonus scheme
- Extra day off on your birthday
- Comprehensive private healthcare insurance
- All the tech gear you need to work smart
Join us in shaping the future of the company as we grow together.
