Total Rewards & People Analytics Manager

About the Role

Location and Salary

• The role is based in Dubai, UAE.
• The stated salary is AED 35,000 per month.

Qualifications and Experience

• 8–10 years of progressive experience across compensation and benefits, HR finance or budget management, and people analytics.
• A bachelor's degree is required in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Statistics, Business Administration, Human Resources, or a related discipline.
• Postgraduate qualifications or certifications such as MBA, MSc HR, MSc Analytics, GRP, CCP, CIPD, SHRM, CFA, or ACCA are highly advantageous.
• Strong financial experience is required in HR budgets, accruals, forecasting, monthly cost analysis, and variance reporting.
• Experience owning country- or regional-level salary review and bonus payout cycles is required.

Core Skills

• Strong people analytics, workforce reporting, dashboard development, and executive insight presentation skills.
• Hands-on experience with HR AI, automation, or digital transformation projects.
• Knowledge of UAE labour regulations, MoHRE requirements, Emiratisation or NAFIS, WPS, and GCC compensation practices.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills for financial modelling, forecasting, and scenario analysis.
• Strong PowerPoint skills and working knowledge of HRIS, SAP, Power BI or Tableau, and automation platforms.

Total Rewards and Financial Management

• Lead compensation strategy, salary benchmarking, pay structures, grading frameworks, fixed and variable compensation, and benefits.
• Manage UAE and GCC market benchmarking and the annual salary review cycle.
• Manage the annual bonus payout cycle, including calibration, calculations, payroll instructions, and reconciliation.
• Design employee benefits programmes and own the HR operating budget.
• Manage HR cost analysis, accruals, forecasts, actual-versus-budget reporting, and variance analysis.

People Analytics and Transformation

• Produce executive HR cost reporting, headcount analysis, scenario modelling, and workforce insights.
• Develop people analytics dashboards covering headcount, cost, attrition, engagement, Emiratisation, DEI, and productivity.
• Lead workforce planning analytics and maintain HR data quality and governance.
• Lead the HR digital transformation and AI roadmap and implement AI-enabled HR solutions.
• Drive RPA and Power Automate process automation while ensuring compliance with UAE data protection and governance standards.