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Rewards and Benefits Specialist

EQPlus

  • R Undisclosed
  • Permanent Specialist position
  • Cape Town Region
  • Posted 31 Mar 2026 by EQPlus
  • Expires in 34 days
  • Job 2636358
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About the position

A global organisation is looking for a senior rewards professional to take ownership of compensation and benefits across a complex, multi-region environment. This role combines strategic input with hands-on execution, requiring someone who can balance market competitiveness, internal equity, and regulatory compliance.

This role is ideal for a compensation and benefits professional that enjoys shaping reward strategies that genuinely impact employee experience and business performance.

If successful, you will work closely with HR, Finance, and leadership teams to design and deliver reward frameworks that support both talent attraction and retention, while also ensuring operational efficiency and governance.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Leading the design and ongoing management of compensation, benefits, and incentive structures
  • Partnering with global and regional stakeholders to ensure reward policies remain competitive and aligned to business needs
  • Conducting benchmarking across salaries, benefits, and incentive frameworks using market data and industry insights
  • Driving annual reward cycles, including salary reviews, bonus allocations, and equity-related processes
  • Supporting hiring decisions through the development of appropriate salary ranges and job pricing
  • Managing short- and long-term incentive plans, ensuring effectiveness and alignment to performance outcomes
  • Ensuring all reward practices comply with local legislation and internal governance standards
  • Building dashboards and reports to provide insights and support decision-making
  • Working closely with finance on budgeting, forecasting, and cost management
  • Overseeing benefits programmes, including medical, retirement, and leave structures
  • Managing relationships with external vendors and brokers to ensure competitive offerings
  • Supporting the resolution of complex or escalated employee reward-related queries

Key requirements:

  • 10+ years of experience in compensation and benefits, including leadership responsibility
  • Strong analytical capability, with advanced Excel skills and exposure to reporting or visualisation tools such as Power BI or similar
  • Solid understanding of remuneration frameworks, benefits structures, and local regulatory requirements
  • Experience working in a global or multi-region environment
  • The ability to influence stakeholders and communicate effectively across different levels of the organisation
  • A commercial mindset, with a track record of improving efficiency and managing costs
  • Strong problem-solving, negotiation, and relationship management skills
  • Experience within large-scale services, operations, or analytics-driven environments will be advantageous

Desired Skills:

  • Compensation and Benefits
  • Rewards Strategy
  • HR Leadership
  • Incentive Management
  • Remuneration
  • Employee Value Proposition
  • HR Analytics

Desired Work Experience:

  • More than 10 years

Desired Qualification Level:

  • Degree

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EQPlus

About the agency

EQPlus is a Specialist IT & Financial Recruitment Consultancy with a team of highly experienced staff and shareholders, representative of South Africa's unique diversity. EQPlus is a Specialist Resourcing Services organization, specialising in the provision of contracting staff, permanent staff as well as Executive Search. We do IT your way. EQPlus is a leading provider of IT and Financial talent, on all levels of your business Founded in 1999, the dynamic team at EQPlus focusses on the following business units: EQ Resourcing EQPlus is able to supply top quality technical specialists in all technologies e.g. Mobile Technologies, Java, C#, SQL, Oracle, COBOL, Natural – all levels. EQ PLUS ensures that the candidate match the client’s skills requirement and the culture of the organisation. EQ Plus provides a personal service of exceptional value. EQ Professional Services EQPlus is highly experienced in the sourcing of Programme and Project Managers for short and long term positions, both local and internationally. Business Analysts/Business Process skills are also available with experience across multiple leading BA methodologies. EQ Staffing Solutions EQ Staffing solutions is designed to meet your needs, be it Teams, Fixed price or Executive search. Our offering includes bespoke application development skills across all the enterprise development platforms and technologies over the full lifecycle of a project. Why EQPLUS We have a track record of excellent service delivery on small and large scale recruitment projects. •Our team of inspirational bright minds enables us to provide business leadership in our field. •We provide Technology Expertise, using state of the art Recruitment Intellectual Property •We consistently provide quality candidates, at great value for money with passionate service delivery. •We serve clients and candidates spanning the technology and geographic landscape of South Africa. •We are a Total Talent Solution Centre of Excellence and have specialists that focus on the IT Industry. •We provide Executive Search appointments, Independent Contractors and Permanent Appointments including: oArchitects, oBusiness Analysts, oProject Managers, oAnalyst Programmers (Java, C#, PHP, Web Logic, SQL, Cobol, Universe, SAP, Oracle etc.) oNetwork Engineers (up to CCIE level). oMicrosoft Technology experts, oJava Application Development experts and oMobile Development experts. oFinancial Industry Professionals.

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