Compensation and Benefits Senior Specialist

About the Position

As a Compensation & Benefits Senior Specialist, you will be responsible for total rewards topics. This position will build, implement, and own the compensation architecture, including job levels, salary structures, KPI-linked variable pay systems, and benefits frameworks.

Responsibilities

Job Architecture & Career Leveling

• Design and implement a comprehensive job architecture including job families and career levels.
• Develop clear level definitions for each career level across all functions.
• Ensure consistency in level assignment across business units.
• Maintain and evolve the architecture as the organization grows and new roles emerge.

Salary Band Design & Market Benchmarking

• Establish salary bands for each career level and geography.
• Source, manage and interpret compensation surveys to ensure bands reflect current market positioning.
• Define the company’s target pay positioning strategy in collaboration with the HR Director and CFO.

KPI System Design & Implementation

• Lead the design and company-wide rollout of a structured KPI-based performance-pay system.
• Define KPI system models for different position groups.
• Build the mechanics of the variable pay cycle.
• Ensure the KPI (variable part) is integrated into the performance management calendar and payroll processing workflow.

Salary Revision Process Leadership

• Own and manage the annual salary review cycle end-to-end: planning, budgeting, communication, manager guidance, system input coordination, and post-review analysis.
• Train and guide HR BPs and managers through compensation decisions during the review cycle.

Governance & Decision Framework

• Establish a clear governance model for all compensation and career-related decisions.
• Define approval processes for hiring levels, salary offers, promotions, exceptions.
• Develop guidelines and decision-making frameworks for managers to follow.
• Ensure transparency and accountability in all compensation-related decisions.

Benefits Design & Standardization

• Conduct a structured audit of existing benefits programs across all locations.
• Develop a standardized global benefits framework with locally adapted modules defining core benefits vs. supplemental benefits.
• Monitor benefits utilization and cost trends: prepare reviews and recommendations.
• Benchmark total rewards package competitiveness against relevant markets on an ongoing basis.

HR & Payroll Budget Planning

• Lead the annual HR cost budgeting process: total compensation spend, headcount cost modeling, bonus and benefits cost projection.
• Partner with Finance to ensure HR cost forecasts are integrated into the company’s financial planning cycle.
• Track actuals vs. budget throughout the year, provide analysis and recommendations.

Compensation Analytics & Reporting

• Build and maintain a compensation analytics function: dashboards tracking pay equity, total rewards competitiveness, etc.
• Deliver regular and ad-hoc compensation reports to HR Director and business leaders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Mathematics, or related quantitative field.
• Proven experience in leading C&B function.
• Strong experience in conducting salary calculations, reviews, and implementing effective compensation and benefits strategies.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
• Strong analytical skills to interpret and leverage compensation data for decision-making.
• Strong project management skills with the ability to lead and execute multiple initiatives concurrently.
• Good knowledge of Latvian, as well as English language as the company is international and has foreign employees and partners, and the nature of the work requires close cooperation with them.

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to work in a dynamic and growing company
• Professional development opportunities

About the Company

DYNATECH, together with other Dyninno companies, are JOINT CONTROLLERS of the personal data you provide. Each company in the Dyninno Group is responsible for your data in the specific personnel selection process.

The companies in the Dyninno Group have agreed that DYNATECH will carry out all activities at the initial stage of recruitment, i.e., publication of advertisements, communication with applicants, organizing and conducting job interviews, from which personal data is collected and stored in the centralized candidate database.

Each company in the Dyninno Group is responsible for recruiting staff (signing an employment contract), with the appropriate involvement of DYNATECH as the manager of the employment documentation (in the centralized database of Dyninno employees).

Your data is processed for the PURPOSE of selecting appropriate candidates for a specific job opening.

The legal BASIS for the data processing is:

• Taking steps at the request of the data subject (you) prior to entering into an employment contract (the actual process of personnel selection);
• Pursuing our legitimate interest (storage of your CV for future vacancies within the group companies).

Additionally, in order to achieve the PURPOSE, we might approach you at specialized recruitment forums (LinkedIn, cv.lv, Meetfrank, etc.) based on our legitimate interest – selecting appropriate candidates.

If you object to such communication, we will stop processing your data, except for minimal data about your objection in order to protect and exercise our legal claims. If you continue to communicate, your data will be processed in accordance with this notice.

The RECIPIENTS of your data are:

• Yourself (the data subject)
• Our employees, who are adequately qualified and engaged in the personnel selection process
• Technical support and security
• Our processors, who under our supervision provide recruitment services (including online testing), technical support, maintenance, and security

We might process (e.g., store) your data outside the EU with our trusted partners who process your data solely in accordance with our instructions, and in compliance with the applicable data protection legislation, so the level of your data protection is not undermined.

Criteria for determining DATA retention periods:

• In case you are selected for employment following the selection process, your DATA will be transferred to the relevant employer – the Dyninno Group company. You will be informed of any further data processing during the process of signing your employment contract.
• In case you are not selected for employment following the selection process:
  • If you request that we delete the DATA or object to the processing of DATA for future vacancies, your CV and other DATA will be deleted within 4 (four) months of the end of the selection process, except for the minimum necessary DATA, which will be kept for 5 (five) years to protect us and other Dyninno Group companies and to comply with our legal requirements and those of other Dyninno Group companies;
  • If you do not object to the processing of DATA for future vacancies, your DATA will be processed for a maximum of 5 (five) years, after which it will be deleted, except for the minimum necessary DATA to protect us and other Dyninno Group companies and to comply with our legal requirements and those of other Dyninno Group companies.
• In the event that we process the personal data of your former colleagues, they will be deleted at the end of each specific selection process.

By providing us with data, you have the following RIGHTS:

• Request access to your personal data from the controller;
• Modify or update data to facilitate the accomplishment of the purpose (i.e., to be selected as the best candidate);
• Request deletion of your data by the controller (in cases specified in applicable legislation);
• Request restriction of the processing of your data by the controller (in cases specified in applicable legislation);
• Object to the processing of your data (in cases specified in applicable legislation);
• Request the forwarding of the data to another controller (the right to portability), if technically feasible, and in accordance with other provisions related to data security;
• File a complaint with the Data State Inspectorate in cases where a dispute with the controller cannot be resolved through negotiation.

Contact details:

• For matters concerning the holding of competitive hiring and related processes, contact [email protected].
• For matters concerning data processing, contact the data protection officer at [email protected].