Compensation Analyst/Consultant

Andrew Dickson

Louisville Kentucky 281-***-**** *************@*****.***

OVERVIEW

Extensive consulting experience, with more than 60% of my working experience in either sales or account management. Targeted audience for sales has been management or executive level clients.

Extensive background in HR, including experience in employee recruitment and retention, staff development, benefits and compensation, time and attendance systems, and HR policies development

Demonstrated success in developing solutions for different client problems, developing pay scales, increase matrices, performance management, short-term incentive design and non-financial reward and recognition schemes.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

MERCER – Louisville, Kentucky

Provides Human Resource consulting services

Analyst, 2016 – current

Primary duties include the provision of market information primarily in the Life Sciences industry.

Key Results:

Hosted the Medical Device Association during the annual Life Sciences Industry feedback meeting.

Duties include cleaning of data received for inclusion in the survey.

Act as primary point of contact for the Medical Device Industry. Act as backup to the Life Sciences Industry as a whole.

Create industry presentations delivering survey results. Present these results to the industry.

Lead industry discussions on issues compensation issues facing the industry.

HAY GROUP Johannesburg, South Africa

Provides Human Resource consulting services

Team Lead: East Africa, 2013 to Jan 2016

Consultant, 2000 – 2005

Team Lead: East Africa

Recruited to develop markets in East Africa for the Productized Services division. This included consolidating and growing our salary survey participant base, and introducing off the shelf assessment and development tools into the east Africa region.

Key Results:

Awarded Top Consultant of the year 2015 in Productized Services

60% of my time spent selling products and solutions into the market. 40% of my time spent delivering remuneration consulting (including pay policy, salary scale design, performance management design, incentive scheme design)

Incentive scheme design projects include senior management scheme design for one of South Africa’s leading black-owned professional firms.

Pay policy design was done for a global FMCG company, a FTSE 100 financial company and a leading global automotive company.

Performance management design was done for a South African Government department.

Salary scale design was done for a leading telecommunications firm on the African continent.

Internal and equity salary comparisons and recommendations made to various clients, including major global banks in both the retail and corporate space.

Achieved budget of R12 million in 2014 (20% growth). This was achieved by growing decision tree (SA based job evaluation system), increasing participation in salary surveys, and selling assessment and development tools including employee engagement surveys.

Managed biggest survey project ever run by SA office. More than 900 staff participated in survey with more than 15,000 individual raters.

Growth of more than 15% in survey participation across 6 countries

Successful launch of TalentQ into East Africa region

Several multi-country sales to financial institutions in sub-Saharan Africa

Consultant

Remuneration consultant (50% of time selling and 50% of time on delivery)

oJob evaluation

oRemuneration policy writing

oSalary Surveys

oPerformance management

KELLY GROUP

Market leading staffing and recruitment company

General Manager – Operations (K-log time and attendance), 2011 to 2012

Senior analyst – planning and forecasting, 2010 to 2011

General Manager – Operations, 2008 - 2010

Promoted to fulfill a broad range of functions, including operational control of Kelly Group’s time and attendance system K-log. Prior to this was involved in developing planning and forecasting tools for use by staffing companies in Kelly Group. Was General Manager for 8 branches providing blue-collar staffing solutions across three regions in South Africa.

Key Results:

Successful roll out of RMS internally to Kelly, InnStaff and Kelly Industrial resulting in up to 15% saving for clients through more efficient time and attendance of temporary staff

No external clients lost and successful onboarding of new clients (substantial growth in new clients)

Consulting to new clients on time and attendance rules and processes

Developed new costing methodology for staffing companies resulting in greater success in gathering new business for staffing companies

Better reporting and forecasting to board by assisting MD’s of staffing companies to accurate present monthly forecasts

When GM at Kelly Industrial achieved a budget of $800,000 by growing new clients and maintaining existing client base

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

UNIVERISTY OF THE WITWATERSRAND Johannesburg, South Africa

Bachelor of Commerce (finance and business economics), 1997

Activities: Worked concurrently during university as a Pay-point controller (supervisor) for Woolworths.

Other accreditations and education:

Certificate in Human Resources, Witsplus, University of the Witwatersrand - 2007

Project Management Professional, Project Management Institute – 2013

Accredited in TalentQ, registered with British Psychological Society, Hay Group - 2015

OF NOTE

Professional Development:

Complete ongoing training in the areas of compensation and benefits, assessment of staff for recruitment and development, executive reward and incentive scheme design.

Affiliations:

Project Management Institute

British Psychological Society

Computer Skills:

MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook)

Decision Tree job evaluation system

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