Regional Lead Compensation, Benefits & HR Data

BBVA is a global company with more than 160 years of history that operates in more than 25 countries where we serve more than 80 million customers. We are more than 121000 professionals working in multidisciplinary teams with profiles as diverse as financiers legal experts data scientists developers engineers and designers.

This will be part of the Talent & Culture team based in London but with a Regional view across Europe ex Spain & Middle East.

About the job:

Key ResponsibilitiesCompensation (Regional Lead CIB scope)

• Act as regional compensation lead for all core compensation processes including:

  • Annual bonus process

  • Merit and salary review processes.

• Lead regional coordination and execution of CRD V / regulatory compensation requirements working closely with global and local stakeholders to ensure compliance.

• Serve as the regional compensation lead on compensation structures providing guidance and approval on:

  • New hire offers

  • Role changes and promotions

  • Retention and special compensation arrangements

• Partner with Compensation CIB to ensure alignment with global frameworks principles and governance while adapting to regional regulatory and market needs.

• Provide expert advice to senior HR and business stakeholders on compensation strategy market positioning and pay outcomes.

HR Data & Analytics

• Own regional HR data governance ensuring data quality consistency and integrity across systems and countries.

• Oversee regional HR reporting analytics and insights related to compensation benefits and workforce data.

• Partner with HR and business leaders to provide data-driven insights to support decision-making planning and regulatory reporting.

Transformation & Process Excellence

• Conduct a comprehensive review of current compensation benefits and HR data processes and procedures across the region.

• Identify gaps inefficiencies and inconsistencies and lead initiatives to:

  • Unify and standardise processes

  • Improve controls and governance

  • Enhance employee and manager experience

• Play a key role in transforming the function embedding scalable efficient and future-ready ways of working.

• Drive change management and stakeholder engagement to ensure successful adoption of new processes.

Key Stakeholders

• Compensation CIB

• Benefits Holding

• Regional and Country HR Leadership

• Business Leaders

• Global Reward and HR Data teams.

• Risk Compliance and Regulatory stakeholders.

• Finance.

Skills & Experience

• Significant experience in senior Compensation and Benefits roles within a complex regulated environment (financial services preferred).

• Strong expertise in compensation processes regulatory frameworks (including CRD V) and reward governance.

• Proven experience leading regional or multi-country reward models.

• Strong analytical capability with experience overseeing HR data and reporting.

• Demonstrated experience in process transformation standardisation and change delivery.

• Ability to operate credibly with senior stakeholders and influence across matrixed organisations.

Key Competencies

• Strategic thinking with strong execution focus.

• Stakeholder management and influencing skills.

• Governance and risk awareness.

• Change leadership and transformation mindset.

• Data-driven decision making.

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