Pay Strategy, Finance And Business Performance is a 5-day program designed for HR, compensation, and business professionals who need to strengthen the connection between base pay design and financial decision-making. The program combines Designing and Managing Base Pay Systems with Finance and Accounting to support more informed, business-aligned pay decisions.
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Module Content: Understand the role of base pay in total rewards and review key concepts such as job value, internal equity, market positioning, and pay policy.
Module Content: Examine how job structures, levels, grades, and career frameworks support the design of consistent and manageable pay systems.
Module Content: Learn how salary ranges, range spreads, midpoints, and pay grades are used to support pay administration and workforce planning.
Module Content: Review approaches for managing merit increases, promotions, adjustments, compression issues, and ongoing pay structure maintenance.
Module Content: Acquire a working understanding of income statements, balance sheets, cash flow, revenue, expenses, margins, and profitability measures.
Module Content: Learn basic accounting terms and principles that support better interpretation of workforce costs, budgets, accruals, and financial reports.
Module Content: Assess how salary budgets, fixed pay, variable costs, headcount planning, and pay adjustments affect overall workforce cost.
Module Content: Examine how compensation decisions influence budgets, operating performance, affordability, and business planning discussions.
Module Content: Apply base pay and financial concepts to evaluate pay structures, cost implications, internal alignment, and business relevance.
Module Content: Develop practical recommendations for communicating pay decisions, supporting financial governance, and improving stakeholder confidence.
Compensation Managers
Total Rewards Professionals
HR Business Partners
HR Managers
Finance Professionals Supporting HR
Payroll And Rewards Specialists
Senior HR And L&D Stakeholders