Compensation and Benefit Manager, APAC - Fluence, Bangalore (NASDAQ: FLNC) - Bangalore, India
(2024-10 - 2026-04)
Fluence is a global market leader in energy storage products and services, and cloud based software for renewables and storage assets.
- Led global total rewards strategy, designing scalable salary structures, incentive programs, and job architecture frameworks to ensure internal equity and market competitiveness
- Partnered with senior leadership and HR business partners to provide strategic insights on compensation, benefits, and workforce cost management.
- Led APAC (India, Philippines, Singapore, Australia and Taiwan) pay equity analysis framework, identifying and correcting unexplained pay gaps through robust statistical and role-based comparisons.
- Designed and implemented targeted retention bonus programs for critical roles during high-attrition periods, resulting in improved 12-month retention among key talent.
- Designed total rewards strategies and empathetic, compliant severance packages, enabling smooth organizational restructuring while minimizing financial impact.
- Conducted annual leave and benefits benchmarking, analyzing market trends and best practices across health, wellness, retirement, and time-off programs to optimize policies, ensure competitiveness, and enhance employee experience.
- Delivered annual compensation increases within budget, improving employee satisfaction through targeted, market-aligned pay differentiation.
- Led incentive program strategy, including bonus structures, sales commissions, and driving alignment with business objectives and employee performance.
- Designed and implemented India shift allowance framework to support 24/7 operations, aligning market benchmarks, legal compliance, and payroll governance to improve retention and cost control.
- Managed annual compensation and incentive programs through HRIS, driving data-driven pay decisions, process efficiency, and employee satisfaction.
Consultant– Compensation and Benefit - Empower, Bangalore - Bangalore, India
(2022-03 - 2024-10)
Empower is a retirement plan recordkeeping financial holding company based in United States. It is the second-largest retirement plan provider in the United States.
- Partnered with HR and business leaders on annual review process
- Led job evaluations, benchmarking, and alignment with internal pay equity.
- Led frontline employee benefits support, serving as the first point of contact and ensuring a high standard of service and stakeholder satisfaction.
- Provided subject matter expertise in compensation and benefit practices, enabling data-driven decisions and compliance across multiple regions.
- Oversee global benchmarking using Mercer, Radford, and other industry surveys to refine salary bands and incentive structures.
- Use advanced analytics to drive key compensation decisions, including pay gap analysis, salary trends, and cost impact modelling.
- Built attrition risk dashboards combining Comp-ratio, performance ratings, tenure, and market position to proactively identify retention risks and increased high-performer retention by 4%.
Specialist–Global Rewards & HR Process - Novozymes, Bangalore (NASDAQ: NVZMY) - Bangalore, India
(2015-09 - 2022-02)
Novozymes is the world's largest Biotechnology firm and a global biosolutions company.
- Developed frameworks for annual merit and market adjustment exercises aligned to budget and total compensation philosophy.
- Recommended salary increases based on performance ratings and market data, prepared global approval decks.
- Managed off-cycle compensation adjustments and promotions.
- Led compensation benchmarking and market pricing using Mercer IPE
- Built and maintained salary structures, ranges, and job grading frameworks.
- Rolled out career framework and job architecture alignment, improving transparency on growth and reducing voluntary exits due to career stagnation.
- Supported development of total compensation directives, salary setting principles, and pay-for-performance models.
- Reviewed salary recommendations related to mobility, restructuring, and organizational change.
- Supported job evaluation calibration at country and global levels.
Assistant Manager - HR - Jana Small Finance Bank, Bangalore - Bangalore, India
(2015-04 - 2015-09)
Jana Small Finance Bank is a Scheduled Commercial Bank. It has been recognized as one of the most innovative financial institutions working on financial inclusion.
- Compensation - Analyzes market data to evaluate competitive position to the market and makes recommendations considering internal metrics. Recommends changes to salary ranges and budgets based on analysis. Approves within scope of authority or recommends alternate solutions to business leaders.
- Benefit - Provides strategic guidance on benefit plan options, policy features, eligibility and other matters related to benefits to ensure employees can make informed decisions about their benefit packages.
Senior HR Analyst - Mercer, Bangalore (NASDAQ: MMC) - Bangalore, India
(2012-07 - 2015-03)
Mercer is the world's largest human resources consulting firm and helps organizations use the power of their people to enhance business success.
- Gathers and compiles Compensation and Benefits, Workforce related data from Clients and suggest them on C&B, workforce related issues and guide them to update their data in client's data base.
- Job Matching/Benchmarking - Review Job matching issues and propose a solutions/new Job Matching to clients as per their grading and internal Jobs roles and responsibilities using the standard Job evaluation methods.
- Preparing the Analysis Reports, such as statistical, regression and custom reports based on the client's requirements.
- Provide management support to the Human Capital function in the areas of people metrics, reporting, and predictive analytics and providing analytic Observations and Business Recommendations based on identified trends.
- Support the Human Capital leadership team to identify business challenges and use Data Analysis to help influence changes to the operations.
- Collaborate with Subject Matter Experts across the HR service areas (learning and development, staffing, talent management, diversity) to promote data governance and stewardship, and to improve overall strategic and operational perform insight
Content Analyst - Thomson Reuters, Bangalore (NASDAQ: TRI) - Bangalore, India
(2007-01 - 2012-07)
Thomson Reuters is one of the world's most trusted organization empowers professionals with cutting-edge technology solutions informed by industry-leading content and expertise
- Secondary Research - Corporate action activities and IPOs in markets within the scope using the below sources. Also, undertake research utilizing a wide variety of business information sources to collate industry, economic and regulatory etc.
- Customer Relationship - Establishing a relationship with external parties or vendors for procuring financial information and various projects. Answering queries from the Siebel Online helpline and addressing client issues.
