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I joined this week. I am a compensation and benefits officer at a consumer goods distributor in Accra with about 800 employees in Ghana and a smaller operation in Côte d'Ivoire. I…
I have worked in HR operations for nine years, the last five at a private hospital group in Pune with four hospitals and about 5,200 staff. From this month I have taken on…
I am the office manager at a games studio in Wellington with about 90 staff. Over five years my job has grown to include onboarding, contracts and now, as of last month, pay. The…
I joined a 220-person software company in Austin in August as its first dedicated compensation person. Before me, the finance lead and the head of people ran the annual review…
I work for a housing association in the north of England, about 1,100 staff, and until last month I was one of four HR business partners. When our reward adviser left, I put my…
I was a financial planning analyst for seven years at a mining services company in Johannesburg, around 3,200 employees, and built the salary budget model every year without ever…
I am one of a two-person reward team at a logistics company based near Rotterdam, around 900 employees across warehousing, transport and an office. My colleague looks after…
I start on Monday as a reward analyst at a 4,000-person engineering consultancy in Leeds. It is my second job; I spent two years as an HR data analyst at a hospital trust, so I…
I look after compensation and benefits for a 260-person architecture and engineering firm in Vancouver. I report to the chief operating officer, who is supportive but has never…
I became reward manager at a national electrical retailer in the UK in June, having come from a broader HR projects role. We have about 5,500 colleagues and a reward team of…
I joined a packaging machinery manufacturer in Bologna in August as its first reward specialist, about 1,400 employees. I came from HR administration and expected to spend the…
I work in the regional rewards team of a shipping and logistics group in Singapore, covering six markets in South-East Asia. My employer is funding the certification and I have…
I am the only HR person at a medical device manufacturer in Galway with 140 employees. Until now the managing director and the finance controller set pay between them. The…
I spent six years at a reward consultancy in Copenhagen, mostly on job evaluation and executive pay benchmarking for Nordic clients. Last month I joined a wind energy company as…
I moved into a compensation analyst role at an IT services firm in Bengaluru two months ago, after three years in recruitment at the same company. We have about 6,000 people in…
I am an HR coordinator at a renewable energy company in Gothenburg, about 500 employees, and I have just been moved into a role supporting our compensation lead. I am two weeks…
After ten years in distribution operations, the last four as a site manager, I moved into a reward analyst role at the same grocery retailer in Queensland in July. We have about…
I finished a degree in economics in the summer and started in September as a junior analyst in the compensation team of an automotive supplier near Stuttgart. The company has…
I have been a reward analyst at a building products manufacturer in the Midlands for four months, about 2,300 employees in the UK. Before that I worked in management accounts.…