Compensation and Benefits Manager

Executive search firm Monroe Consulting Group Philippines is partnering with an organisation in the Industrial sector to hire a Compensation and Benefits Manager. This opportunity is based in Quezon City and offers the chance to lead payroll, compensation, benefits, compliance, and rewards programmes within a growing environmental services business.

Position Overview

Lead the end-to-end management of payroll operations, compensation structures, employee benefits, and statutory compliance.
Drive standardisation, market competitiveness, and continuous improvement of remuneration and benefits programmes across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintains payroll information by ensuring accurate input of employee pay data in reports and in the system.
• Updates payroll records by reviewing and approving changes in exemptions, insurance coverage, savings deductions, and job titles, and department/company transfers.
• Prepares for and processes the bank files for salary credit.
• Prepares reports by compiling summaries of earnings, taxes, deductions, leave, disability, and non-taxable wages.
• Ensures accuracy and timeliness of submission of reportorial requirements such as but not limited to SSS, HDMF, PhilHealth and the BIR.
• Balances the payroll accounts by resolving payroll discrepancies.
• Provides payroll information by answering questions and requests.
• Maintains payroll guidelines by writing and updating policies and procedures.
• Keeps abreast and up to date on payroll/pay and benefit-impacting government regulations.
• Ensures effective implementation of both government and company benefits administration.
• Designs and implements remuneration and rewards programmes.
• Maintains and standardise employee benefits and compensation programmes together with the HR Business Partners.
• Initiates and drives the standardisation of pay and benefits, and continuously stays up to date on the current trends in the market.
• Establishes salary scales and pay grades across the group of companies and continuously benchmarks to identify market competitiveness and pay position strategy.
• Plan, negotiate, and assess budget of HMO contracts and other insurance benefits.
• Ensures legal and sound practices in all Pay and Benefit policies and programmes.
• Implements Occupational Health and Wellness Programmes as well as ensure compliance to regulations with regards to health and safety.
• Participates in new projects implementations and functionality uptake; seeing projects through the full lifecycle and perform functions related to requirements gathering, configuration, testing, UAT and post-production support.
• Adheres to established budgetary guideline.
• Ensures that all government obligations are adhered.

Key Requirements

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline.
• Significant experience in compensation and benefits management, payroll administration, and statutory compliance.
• Proven experience managing end-to-end payroll operations and employee benefits programmes.
• Experience in compensation benchmarking, salary structure development, and rewards programme implementation.
• Experience working with multiple business units or group companies is advantageous.

Technical / Functional Expertise

• Strong knowledge of payroll processing and payroll systems.
• In-depth understanding of Philippine statutory requirements including SSS, HDMF, PhilHealth, and BIR compliance.
• Experience in compensation planning, salary grading, remuneration strategy, and market benchmarking.
• Knowledge of benefits administration, HMO management, insurance programmes, and benefits budgeting.
• Familiarity with HR systems implementation, requirements gathering, configuration, testing, UAT, and post-production support.
• Strong reporting and payroll reconciliation capabilities.
• Knowledge of occupational health, wellness, and health and safety compliance requirements.

Soft Skills & Leadership Competencies

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Effective stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to handle confidential and sensitive employee information with discretion.
• Strong organisational and project management capabilities.
• Ability to drive standardisation, process improvement, and policy development.
• Leadership skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with HR Business Partners and cross-functional teams.