Our company

We’re Hitachi Digital Services, a global digital solutions and transformation business with a bold vision of our world’s potential. We’re people-centric and here to power good. Every day, we future-proof urban spaces, conserve natural resources, protect rainforests, and save lives. This is a world where innovation, technology, and deep expertise come together to take our company and customers from what’s now to what’s next. We make it happen through the power of acceleration.

Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to bring a better tomorrow closer to today. We don’t expect you to ‘fit’ every requirement – your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.

The Team

We’re a leader in cutting-edge innovation, the transformative power of cloud technology, and converged and hyperconverged solutions. Our mission is to empower clients to securely store, manage, and modernize their digital core, unlocking valuable insights and driving data-driven value.

This strong, diverse, and collaborative group of technology professionals collaborate with teams to support our customers as they store, enrich, activate, and monetise their data, brining value to every line of their business.

The Role

The Global Compensation Specialist will primarily be responsible for supporting the organization in all areas of compensation. The position is part of the Hitachi Digital Services Total Rewards (TR) team and will work with TR members around the world in a variety of compensation areas. As part of the Total Rewards team, this position develops, implements, and administers global compensation strategies, policies, and programs. 

Responsibilities  

Prepare special studies and recommendations on compensation-related topics, for executive level positions.   Administer short- and long-term incentive programs (STI / LTI), including communications, timelines, training, payments, etc.   Support sales compensation activities.  Participate in compensation surveys to collect and analyze competitive pay and practice information to help determine the company’s competitive position.  Provide analytic support and insight related to findings in employee data.  Responsible for educating HR and the broader employee base on our compensation philosophy.  Support HR/TR Transformation by identifying and making recommendations on process improvement/simplification.  Recommend corrective or alternative actions to resolve compensation-related problems.  Coordinate work performed in conjunction with Hitachi Digital HR Shared Services and TR COE resources.  May lead new projects/initiatives or represent the TR function in cross-functional or inter-company projects. 

  Qualifications 

5 to 8+ years compensation experience; international experience a plus, supporting global organizations.  Experience in having ownership and administering base pay programs, compensation plans, long term incentive (LTI) programs, collaborating with representatives from multiple functions (Sales/HR/Finance/IT, etc..) as well as senior/executive management.  Experience working in Finance Function is a plus. Comfortable dealing with financial aspects of compensation programs including budget allocation, and accruals.  Advanced Excel skills: Comfortable working with large data sets and standardizing/merging/organizing data from diverse sources. Extensive experience in performing complex Excel functions including lookups, pivots, and ability to transform data into presentable chart/graph/tables for review and presentations.  Ability to lead teams and improve performance by establishing new business practices and procedures.  Effective communication skills and ability to adapt to different personality styles, as well as unique needs of different functions.  Executive compensation experience is a plus.  Experience with MarketPay system is a plus.  Experience with Workday is a plus.  Experience with Sales Compensation is a plus.  

What you’ll bring

Proven expertise in your area by virtue of which you can contribute to growth of practice. Subject matter expert who can increase the competency in said technology and act as mentor to other team members.

Be at the forefront of the exiting journey Hitachi Digital Solutions has undertaken and contribute immensely through your consulting skills for internal as well as external customers.

Championing diversity, equity, and inclusion

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are integral to our culture and identity. Diverse thinking, a commitment to allyship, and a culture of empowerment help us achieve powerful results. We want you to be you, with all the ideas, lived experience, and fresh perspective that brings. We support your uniqueness and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our team.

How we look after you

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.