About the Role
This role combines strategic financial acumen with human resource expertise to shape compensation strategies. The Total Rewards and Controlling Analyst supports the benefits, payroll, and reporting team on initiatives across various HR functions and locations, requiring expert-level Excel and analytics skills for budget analytics, labor cost modeling, workforce analytics, compensation assessments, and risk mitigation.
Responsibilities
- Own the planning, consolidation, and ongoing management of the annual personnel budget and projections using advanced budget analytics and labor cost modeling.
- Prepare monthly workforce analytics reports monitoring Key HR KPIs, including variance analysis and presentations for management.
- Create ad hoc analysis based on business requests to improve HR cost control and mitigate financial risk.
- Partner with Finance to manage monthly closures, ensuring correct cost allocation and providing variance analysis.
- Maintain Excel models for labor forecasting, hiring plans, compensation, and bonus scenarios.
- Lead compensation assessments and define salary review processes, monitoring data collection and implementation.
- Support development of monthly and annual planning cycles by providing workforce changes and organizational moves into accurate personnel cost forecasts.
- Support the analysis related to admin/payroll and HRIS activities to improve and harmonize processes.
- Participate actively in HR processes' implementation and management, improving digital mindset and tool integration.
- Ensure adherence to wage and hour regulations and recommend necessary adjustments.
- Engage in two luxury retail market salary surveys annually, plus additional corporate sector surveys.
- Analyze market trends and salaries, presenting findings.
- Assist the Director, Total Rewards with compensation review processes, salary planning, and incentive analysis.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in compliance management or a related role.
- Expert analytical and problem-solving skills, with proven experience in budget analytics, labor cost modeling, and workforce analytics.
- Demonstrated experience in budget management and forecasting, including annual budget planning, projections, and variance analysis.
- Understanding of local, state, and federal laws involving employment, HR, and HR policies.
- Proficient with or the ability to quickly learn the organization’s HRIS, SAP, ADP, payroll, and similar employee management software.
- Proven knowledge of industry-specific regulations and compliance best practices.
- Experience with generating and implementing innovative solutions with an understanding of how to get from ideation to execution.
- Strong project management skills with the ability to prioritize in a fast-paced environment.
- Expert-level proficiency in Microsoft Excel (advanced formulas, pivot tables, data modeling) and analytics tools, with strong Word and PowerPoint skills.
- Demonstrated ability to build data models and dashboards in Excel that support compensation assessments, labor cost forecasting, and risk mitigation.
- Verbal and written communication, including active listening, for determining business goals and suggesting ways to achieve them through human resource initiatives.
- Analytical and problem-solving abilities with strong attention to detail, applying sound judgment to identify and mitigate workforce-related risks.
- Strong project management and change management skills with the ability to prioritize in a fast-paced environment.
- Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States at the time of application and be able to provide proof of employment eligibility upon request.
- Employment is contingent upon the successful verification of this authorization in compliance with federal immigration laws.
Skills
- Excel
- Analytics
- Budget analytics
- Labor cost modeling
- Workforce analytics
- Compensation assessments
- Risk mitigation
- Microsoft Excel
- Advanced formulas
- Pivot tables
- Data modeling
- Word
- PowerPoint
- Project management
- Change management
Location
- United States
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years of experience
Education Level
- Degree and/or certification or equivalent experience in human resources or related field preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $100K-$105K
About the Company
- OTB is an international fashion group comprising the iconic, unconventional brands Diesel, Jil Sander, Maison Margiela, Marni and Viktor&Rolf.
- It also controls the Staff International and Brave Kid companies and holds a stake in American brand Amiri.
- OTB – short for "Only The Brave" – believes in the possibility of pushing beyond the frontiers of fashion and style to support the creativity of international talents and express in full the innovative spirit and uncompromising courage of its founder and chairman, Renzo Rosso.
- With more than 6,000 employees worldwide, the Group is founded on a digital approach centred on the consumer, a concrete long-term commitment to the creation of a sustainable, technologically driven business, and close attention to social issues through the OTB Foundation.
Equal Opportunity
- OTB Group North America is an equal opportunity employer.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, marital or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
- We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace and provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities throughout the application and employment process.
