Global Total Rewards Director Business Assurance

Reporting To: Global Head of Human Resources Business Assurance

Key Stakeholders: Group Total Rewards team Regional Total Rewards Leaders Regional & Country HR Directors Finance Legal and Business Assurance Leadership

Location: Flexible / Global (Hybrid)

Travel: Occasional international travel

Role Overview

The Global Total Rewards Director for Business Assurance (BA) is responsible for designing governing and evolving Total Rewards strategy across nearly 100 countries and 8500 employees. This role drives all global activities related to Compensation Benefits Job Architecture Incentives Benchmarking Governance and Reward Transformation for the Business Assurance division.

As Business Assurance undergoes significant growth and transformation this role will be instrumental in shaping competitive reward frameworks harmonising practices across countries improving internal equity and ensuring strategic alignment with both Business Assurance business goals and SGS Group Total Rewards policies.

Key Responsibilities

Global Total Rewards Strategy & Governance

• Develop and execute a comprehensive global Total Rewards strategy aligned with BAs business priorities and growth ambitions.
• Act as the strategic Total Rewards leader for BA ensuring full alignment with Group Total Rewards.
• Establish strong governance frameworks for compensation benefits job architecture and incentive plans across 90 countries.
• Ensure consistency internal equity and global standards while balancing local market realities.
• Advise BA Executive Leadership on reward trends risks and strategic decisions.

Compensation Frameworks & Grading

• Lead global job architecture ensuring clarity consistency and scalability across BAs organisation.
• Own and manage the grading framework ensuring rigorous application and calibration globally.
• Implement robust processes for job evaluation leveling and internal benchmarking.
• Partner with regional HR/Total Rewards to ensure correct and consistent application of compensation policies.
• Drive salary and bonuses reviews processes.

Market Benchmarking & External Competitiveness

• Lead global compensation and benefits benchmarking in Consulting Audit and Training sectors in partnership with Group TR and external vendors (Mercer Willis Towers Watson local providers).
• Monitor market competitiveness across diverse geographies and propose adjustments proactively.
• Maintain a holistic up-to-date view of competitiveness for BAs critical roles globally.

Annual Compensation Cycles

• Lead and coordinate the annual global compensation cycles for BA (merit increase bonus promotions).
• Design guidelines and calibration methodologies for leaders regions and countries.
• Partner with Finance for labor cost scenarios budgeting and forecasting.
• Ensure strong communication training and change management with HR and business stakeholders.

Incentive Plans & Bonus Structures

• Review harmonize and improve incentive plans across BA ensuring competitiveness fairness and performance alignment.
• Design or refine bonus schemes for different populations (sales incentives auditors incentives management incentives special schemes).
• Ensure performance-based reward models that support BAs commercial and operational priorities.

Offer Management & Reward Advisory

• Own global guidelines for compensation offers ensuring competitiveness and internal equity.
• Support senior-level or critical-role offer decisions including expatriation and mobility packages.
• Provide strategic reward advisory to HRBPs and BA leadership on complex cases.

Reward Transformation & Continuous Improvement

• Drive major Total Rewards transformation initiatives in BA (harmonization digitalization simplification).
• Identify gaps inefficiencies or inconsistencies across regions and implement corrective actions.
• Modernize reward processes tools dashboards (in collaboration with Group TR).
• Support Workday or other HR system enhancements related to rewards.

Collaboration & Stakeholder Management

• Act as BAs main liaison to Group Total Rewards for global strategy alignment tools and methodologies.
• Partner with regional Total Rewards leaders to ensure alignment and smooth deployment globally.
• Work cross-functionally with HR Finance Legal Business Leaders and Group HR.
• Communicate complex reward concepts to diverse stakeholders with clarity and impact.

HRIS Workday & Rewards Systems Governance

• Lead the strategic oversight of HRIS systems supporting Total Rewards (Workday compensation grading incentives and benefits) ensuring global consistency scalability and data integrity.
• Drive automation digitalization and dashboard development to strengthen analytics forecasting and data-driven decision-making.
• Continuously improve reward system processes reducing manual interventions and enhancing user experience for HR and business stakeholders.

Qualifications :

Experience

• 15 years in Total Rewards / Compensation & Benefits ideally in global or multi-regional organisations.
• Extensive experience across compensation strategy grading executive and broad-based compensation incentives and benefits.
• Proven track record in global reward harmonization and transformation.
• Strong understanding of compensation practices across APAC EEMEA Europe Americas and emerging markets.
• Experience supporting business models similar to BA (professional services audit certification technical industries).

Skills & Competencies

• Reward Expertise: deep knowledge of compensation benefits job evaluation benchmarking and market practices.
• Analytical Strength: strong financial mindset; ability to model scenarios build business cases and assess impacts.
• Transformation Leadership: ability to lead global change harmonize frameworks and simplify complexity.
• Stakeholder Influence: credible advisor to senior leaders; strong cross-cultural communication.
• Project Management: ability to drive multiple global initiatives simultaneously.
• Technology Fluency: good command of HRIS (e.g. Workday) Excel and reward tools (Mercer WTW platforms).
• Fluency in English required; other languages are a plus.

Additional Information :

Why Join Business Assurance

• Lead Total Rewards for a global division operating in 90 countries.
• Create high-impact reward strategies in a business undergoing transformation and growth.
• Work closely with Group Total Rewards while shaping the future of BAs people strategy.
• Exposure to executive stakeholders global complexity and meaningful transformation.

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time