Principal, Global Remuneration

Xero is a beautiful, easy-to-use platform that helps small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping advisors grow and thrive.

At Xero, our purpose is to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world. This purpose sits at the centre of everything we do. We support our people to do the best work of their lives so that they can help small businesses succeed through better tools, information and connections. Because when they succeed they make a difference, and when millions of small businesses are making a difference, the world is a more beautiful place.

**How you’ll make an impact**

The Principal, Global Remuneration & Reward Consultan
**t** will be responsible for developing, directing and implementing Xero’s reward programmes. They will ensure programmes align with Xero’s strategy and support attraction, motivation and retention of key talent.

**Success looks like**

Helping drive Xero’s reward strategy and ensuring programmes support our global business goals and objectives.

**What you’ll do**
- Supporting the EGM, Reward, in preparing papers for the Remuneration Committee including coordinating with the office of the Company Secretary. Helping prepare remuneration reports and related disclosures.
- Helping design and review incentive plans such as short term incentives, long term incentives, sales incentives, sign on bonus, retention and project related incentives.
- Review and operation of benefit programs.
- Design and management of employee recognition programs.
- Review and design of employee share plans. Support our Finance and Legal teams with incentive and equity administration.
- Develop Xero’s reward frameworks and ensure it’s aligned with our business goals and objectives, simple to administer, and compelling for employees
- Design remuneration policies that support the attraction, retention and motivation of key talent, including incentive plans and rewards programmes
- Manage the annual salary review process annual Short Term Incentive (STI) plans
- Gather and utilise survey data, monitor market trends and developments, recommend improvements to existing programmes, and propose new programmes
- Develop remuneration structures and create salary ranges based on external market data
- Ensure a consistent and systematic approach to evaluation of roles through to executive level
- Manage relationships with consultancies/vendors, determine market data needs and manage associated cost budget
- Support People Experience (PX) and Talent Experience (TX) teams in day to day remuneration related issues
- Be a point of contact for estimates, forecasts and calculations for remuneration and benefit expenses to make sure we’re aligned with Finance
- Support the business in analysis which contributes to other business goals and objectives such as diversity
- Ensure records and reports are maintained in Workday and the benefits of Workday are fully realised

**What you’ll bring with you**

**Critical competencies**
- Experience in supporting ASX listed Remuneration Committee work
- Success in geographically and culturally diverse environments
- Strong knowledge of worldwide remuneration and benefits regulations and market trends
- Mathematical aptitude and exceptional analytical skills - this person needs to be a spreadsheet genius
- The humility to be the person doing the work at-hand, the confidence to represent your work to executives and the intestinal fortitude to stand your ground if you know you are right

**Experience**
- Undergraduate and/or Master's Degree preferably in Human Resources, Management or similar
- Significant experience in global remuneration, benefits and rewards programmes especially ASX
- Preferably with a company that has experienced intense growth
- Experience managing multiple global stakeholders at senior levels
- Project management and excellent communication skills
- Strong background in HCM systems (Workday an advantage)
- Xero is an NZ Immigration Accredited Employer and Rainbow Tick certified too._