Remuneration & Reporting Specialist

About Us:

At Development Victoria, we’re passionate about making Victoria a great place to be. We create vibrant places across our state, through diverse and strategic property development and urban renewal projects.

As the Victorian Government’s development arm, we revitalise iconic public buildings, create important cultural and recreational facilities and repurpose public land, for all Victorians. We also build great homes and communities where people and business can thrive, catering for different budgets, lifestyles, and people - designed to be sustainable and affordable.

We help create a better Victoria.

Job Description

About the role:

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Operations & Employee Relations, the Remuneration & Reporting Specialist will lead, influence and shape the development of the remuneration and reporting strategy across Development Victoria, particularly in the areas of remuneration, reporting and strategic position management. The successful candidate will provide a centre of expertise so that other members of the wider PC&T team, the Executive Team and Managers receive the best possible advice and support in their areas of speciality.

Core Accountabilities:

• Develop, implement and deliver people data reporting services, including data preparation, analysis, governance, modelling and visualisations that will meet the current and emerging needs of Development Victoria.
• Renumeration Strategy & Advice
• Develop comprehensive remuneration, rewards, and position management strategies and frameworks for Development Victoria, ensuring a consistent approach and alignment across the organisation and reflecting external best practice.
• Ensure strategy is developed taking into account the vision and values of DV, the Government’s expectations, the employment relations environment and the PC&T strategy,
• Manage the annual remuneration review process. Including preparing the analysis and reports for salary reviews.
• Coordinate and administer Public Entity Senior Executive Services (PESES) benchmarking and annual adjustments.
• Responsible for cyclical remuneration activities and administration of Victoria Independent Remuneration Tribunal (VIRT), Premiers Adjustments and Out of Cycle Remuneration Reviews (OOC)
• Provide specialist advice to the Chief Executive and Leadership Team on long-term remuneration trends and projections to inform policy, business, and budget decisions
• Provide appropriate best practice advice and high quality consultancy services to the PC&T team and, in particular, the P&C Business Partner teams on remuneration and strategic position management matters
• Job Evaluation/Grading
• Implement and manage an approved job grading system (Mercer)
• Process calibration to market grade data per function
• Create company pay scales
• Complete the pay analysis and comparative reports
• Align remuneration of employees to the approved pay scales
• Ensure that all positions remain market-related and competitive.
• Salary benchmarking & Market information sourcing
• Collate and contributed to market data
• Lead the development, coordination and implementation of remuneration-related projects and programmes
• Provide regular progress reports to key stakeholders.

Desired Skills and Experience

About You:

• Tertiary qualifications in Human Resources, Or or Business discipline preferred.
• Mercer certified essential.
• Extensive experience in remuneration and reward related experience including expert knowledge of trends and current best practice is essential.
• Salary benchmarking experience
• Practical understanding of employment and remuneration within the Public Sector
• Proven ability to make the connection between PC&T strategy and operational reality
• Outstanding communications and negotiation skills, and the ability to model the concept of “good faith” in employment relationships at all levels in Development Victoria
• A comprehensive understanding of the collection, interpretation and uses of PC&T information with demonstrated capability to develop value-adding reporting
• Incredible organisational skills with the ability to multi-task, and work to tight and competing deadlines
• Strong ability to develop/articulate logical arguments – based on fact, information is sourced from a variety of sources, argument is backed by sound evidence
• Knowledge of relevant legislation impacting remuneration.
• Client focused - giving high priority to anticipating need and ensuring stakeholder satisfaction.

Employee Benefits:

• We drive strong collaboration and support our teams to work virtually and flexibly.
• Professional development opportunities available including;
  • Study support
  • Mentoring programs
  • Opportunity to participate in cross functional working groups that drive diversity and inclusion and sustainability initiatives.
• Novated leasing
• Purchase leave
• Paid parental leave
• Technology salary sacrifice
• Employee referral bonuses
• Health & Wellbeing initiatives such as EAP and mental health and wellbeing leave
• Access to group life & group salary continuance insurance
• Modern onsite facilities

Application Process:

• Please apply via our careers page linked to this advertisement, applications will not be accepted via email.
• Applications may close prior to the closure date if a high volume of applications is received so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
• Please note: The preferred candidate will be required to complete a national police record check prior to an offer of employment being made.
• At Development Victoria, we work flexibly and value diversity, and we invite you to talk to us about any preferences or adjustments you may value or require to either our recruitment process or the role itself. If you identify as a person with disability, please let us know how we can provide additional support to your application.
• We are an equal opportunity employer that is committed to making employment related decisions without bias or discrimination. We actively encourage sharing of knowledge and best practice across our teams. We respect and value every individual’s unique talent and contribution and harness these strengths to collectively achieve the kind of results we can all be proud of.

We respectfully request no agency approaches. We will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes being sent to anyone here in our business.