Specialist, Compensation and Benefits

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- **What does the Total Rewards team look like?**

The People team is one of the most critical functions in our business. We're obsessed with creating incredible experiences for our Benchmates. We're also serious about the development of our people and want Bench to be a place where you can catapult your career and make a real difference at the same time. As a People team, we're committed to delivering and managing an exceptional employee experience from beginning to end. We are incessantly curious about how we can continue to move the needle and elevate the Benchmate experience. To do that, we hold ourselves accountable to high standards and commit to continuously improve.

Within the People Team, Total Rewards serves as a center of excellence and a strategic business partner to all our Bench teams, in our pursuit to attract, retain and motivate exceptional talent, by ensuring we have competitive pay and benefits offerings.

The Comp & Benefits Specialist is the face of our benefits program, is our plan administrator, and is the primary contact for Benchmates on all things Total Rewards. This Benchmate also plays a key role in compensation benchmarking, compensation data management and salary survey participation

**What you'll get up to**:

- Administering our benefits program, including enrolling and de-enrolling employees, and assisting with the delivery of our people-first benefits onboarding experience, including presenting benefits orientation sessions
- Collaborating closely with our People Operations team to ensure timely and accurate processing of benefits enrollments and claims, auditing our benefits invoices while managing and maintaining our employee data through our benefits portal
- Providing insights on benefit usage trends and collaborating with our Financial Planning team to align our business forecasting with your analysis of our benefit costs
- Supporting the annual compensation review processes, participating in salary surveys and assisting in the benchmark design and management processes
- Maintaining compensation data integrity in our HRIS system as well as internal databases and dashboards
- Collecting and submitting information for audits
- Researching and analyzing compensation and benefits data to create meaningful inferences and reports, including assisting with pulling together reports and presentations for leadership meetings
- Supporting variable pay calculations
- Enhancing Benchmate experience by promptly responding to Total Rewards service requests and participating in Total Reward projects
- Supporting process and policy documentation for Total Rewards as well as administering our Total Rewards Confluence space, including creating new pages, drafting content, and owning the organization of the Confluence space

**What you'll need**:

- 1-3 years of compensation, benefits and/or Total Rewards experience in the technology industry
- Self-motivation and an ability to work autonomously
- Excellent communication skills
- Highly numerical and analytical skills, with a passion for data
- High degree of skill and comfort in Google Sheets or Excel
- Creativity and curiosity, with a solutions-based mentality
- Respect for compliance and confidentiality
- Excellent time management and organizational skills
- Ability to assess data and make recommendations
- Knowledge of local, provincial/state, and federal labour regulations

**It could be an even better fit if you**:

- Have experience in a Software as a Service (SaaS) business
- Have, or are working towards a compensation and/or benefits designation like Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) or Certified Employee Benefits Specialist (CEBS)

**What you'll get**:

- At Bench we share information freely and openly whenever possible. The salary range for this role is $54,400 - $68,000 per year, depending on experience.
- In addition,