- Location
- Hyderabad
- Department
- Human Capital
- Seniority
- Manager
- Education
- Master
- Source
- Greenhouse
Description
Company Overview
Arcesium is a global financial technology firm that solves complex data-driven challenges faced by some of the world’s most sophisticated financial institutions. We constantly innovate our platform and capabilities to meet tomorrow’s challenges, anticipate the risks our clients encounter, and design advanced solutions to help our clients achieve transformational business outcomes.
Financial technology is a high-growth industry as change and innovation continue to disrupt the status-quo and prompt major transformation. Arcesium is at a particularly interesting time in our own growth as we look to leverage our successfully established market position and expand operations in pursuit of strategic new business opportunities. We value intellectual curiosity, proactive ownership, and collaboration with colleagues, and we empower you to meaningfully contribute from day one and accelerate your professional development.
We are seeking a Manager – Compensation & Benefits to join our global HR team. This individual will play a key role in designing, analyzing, and executing compensation and benefits programs. The role requires strong analytical skills, proficiency in Excel, and a solid understanding of both local and international compensation practices.
What You'll do :
1. Compensation
- Support the design, review, and administration of compensation and benefit programs.
- Provide Cost per Head (CPH) analytics – maintain budgeted CPH numbers, manage quarterly projections, and perform variance analysis.
- Lead annual compensation review processes including budgeting, pay structure updates, salary revision cycles, and promotion planning.
- Partner with Finance on accruals, forecasting, and reporting of compensation spend.
- Conduct market benchmarking and internal equity analysis to ensure competitive pay positioning.
2. Analytics & Reporting
- Build and maintain advanced Excel models for compensation planning, CPH tracking, and reporting.
- Generate periodic reports and dashboards for leadership on salary costs, headcount, benefits utilization, and market trends.
- Translate data insights into actionable recommendations for leadership.
3. Governance & Compliance
- Ensure compensation and benefits programs are compliant with local laws and regulations in each country.
- Document and update policies, processes, and governance standards.
- Support audits and internal reviews related to payroll, benefits, or compensation practices.
4. Stakeholder Management:
- Partner closely with HRBPs, Finance, and Leadership teams on compensation planning and decisions.
- Act as a subject matter expert and trusted advisor on compensation and benefits matters.
- Provide guidance and education to managers and HR colleagues on C&B frameworks.
What You'll need:
- Strong knowledge of compensation principles and practices across India and US (experience/exposure to UK and Portugal is an advantage).
- MBA from reputed institutes will be preferred.
- 6-8 years of relevant work experience in compensation management role.
- Strong analytical mindset with ability to work with large datasets.
- High attention to detail, accuracy, and data integrity.
- Good understanding of benefits programs and willingness to build deeper expertise across multiple geographies.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working in a global or multi-country HR setup.
- Familiarity with compensation surveys, benchmarking methodologies, and vendor management.
- Exposure to HR systems or compensation tools.
What We Offer
- Opportunity to manage C&B programs across four countries.
- High visibility role, partnering with global HR, Finance, and senior leadership.
- Growth opportunity to shape compensation and benefits strategy in a scaling organization.
- Collaborative, learning-driven work environment.
Recruiting Security
Emails from genuine Arcesium recruiters who are employees of the company will always come from the @arcesium.com domain. In some cases, you may also be contacted by independent search firms engaged to recruit on our behalf; emails from their employees should always come from their firm's applicable domain. We'll never ask for your banking information or any payment as part of the recruiting process. If something seems off or you're contacted by an unexpected third party, please reach out to us at [email protected] (US/UK), [email protected] (India) or [email protected] (Portugal/Sweden).
Arcesium is an equal opportunity employer.
