Jonathan Z.

• Streamlining and harmonising compensation structures and practices across Shopee and SeaMoney subsidiaries • Designing, implementing, and establishing Compensation & Benefits (C&B) processes, policies, and programs aligned with market competitiveness and business strategies • Developing materials on C&B programs, policies, and practices, and create customized compensation and benefit solutions for various subsidiaries, collaborating with business product managers for compensation management system design • Evaluating current compensation and benefit schemes, ensuring alignment with business needs • Serving as a subject matter expert, providing recommendations on compensation-related topics to teams, including key business stakeholders and HR professionals • Maintaining expert knowledge by researching best practices, including evaluating emerging trends (in tech and related industries), keeping up-to-date of key competitor developments and tools for compensation analysis • Conducting external market research and ensure that market data analysis and recommendations align with the compensation strategy • Partnering with HR Business Partners, payroll, and recruitment to identify and lead new C&B initiatives, and design C&B-related processes • Responsible for the effective delivery of end-to-end Compensation activities in HQ/SG • Leading year-end increment and bonus cycles

• Implementing C&B processes, salary structures, policies and programs in alignment with business strategy, regional guidelines and framework • Serving as subject matter expert and day-to-day compensation interface for Product and Engineering teams, including Head of Departments, salary and line managers and HR professionals • Maintaining expert knowledge by researching best practices, including evaluating emerging trends, keeping up-to-date of key competitor developments and tools for compensation analysis • Conducting external market research and ensuring market data analysis and recommendations are aligned with compensation strategy and direction for Product and Engineering lines of business • Partnering with HRBPs, payroll, recruitment on various C&B processes so as to identify and lead new initiatives, designing HR C&B related processes and practices and managing service delivery of offer recruitment processes • Responsible for effective delivery of end-to-end Compensation activities in Singapore and related subsidiaries • Managing year-end increment & bonus schemes, including computation of increments and bonuses for staff

• Developed and streamlined region's total rewards (compensation and benefits) strategy including salary structure, total compensation competitiveness analysis and sales incentive plans • Developed L&D strategies to achieve regional HR’s long-term initiatives in cultivating learning culture and supporting other business strategies • Developed effective analysis and designing programmes to attract, develop and retain qualified employees • Maintained effective programs for workforce evaluation, promotion planning and succession planning to ensure organisation-wide talent management and initiatives • Supported business strategies with integration of talent development, talent acquisition, performance management, learning and development and total rewards topics • Led global-level team in employer branding initiative

• Conceptualised, designed, and conducted primary research which includes field surveys, focus group discussions to assess various issues faced by different population segments and the efficacy of social policies. • Undertook research and data analytics on housing markets housing affordability, social cohesion, planning and community living using econometric, statistical techniques, predictive analytics, and deploy machine learning tools. • Developed deep behavioral understanding of targeted population segments and implement behavioural interventions to improve social policies. • Enhanced surveillance-based research using geospatial visualisation and dashboards. • Established and ensured adherence to a business administrative data governance framework for data policies, standards and practises. • Implemented and governed data transfer and storage processes by leveraging on technology platforms (SharePoint, internal cloud system).

• Drive employment branding initiatives and campus recruitment drives through engaging in primary and secondary research on current brand awareness and proposed methods to enhance branding. • Digitalise talent management processes such as assessment and development centres to ensure efficient and timely assessment of candidates in ASEAN region. • Established communication of HR policies leveraging on technology platforms such as SharePoint to enhance communication of HR policies via the intranet portal.

• Accurate interpretation and administering of allowance policies and disbursement of funds • Responsible in tasking various admin pay clerks of subunits and ensured smooth transition in the disbursement of funds and response to servicemen’s enquiry. • Spearheaded manpower team for proof-checking, diagnostics and analysis of various audit queries for Internal Audit Check and tackled various issue summaries raised by the audit department, resulting in Manpower Unit to achieve a grade 1 for audit review.

Lee Kuan Yew Gold Medal for Best Undergraduate in Faculty of Arts and Social Science

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