Assistant Manager, Compensation & Benefits

About the role

The Assistant Manager, Compensation & Benefits will support the line manager in designing and administering the company’s salary and benefits programs, ensuring compliance with Cambodian labor regulations and internal policies. The role involves close collaboration with HR, finance and payroll teams to manage overtime, leave, severance and loan reconciliations.

Key responsibilities

• Assist in preparing annual salary and benefits budgets, market compensation surveys, and building salary structures.
• Collect and verify staff dependent declarations to ensure tax exemption compliance.
• Gather and process overtime sheets for all projects, input data into Excel, and support payroll processing.
• Coordinate with the employee data officer to provide contracts and calculate notice obligations.
• Ensure timely and accurate final settlement packages for voluntary and involuntary separations, in line with labor law and company policy.
• Calculate and release severance payments according to policy.
• Prepare monthly calculations of unused annual leave and submit to Finance.
• Reconcile staff loan balances and ensure monthly loan repayments are deducted from payroll on schedule.
• Perform any additional duties assigned by the direct manager.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, mathematics, or business administration.
• Minimum three years of HR experience with a strong focus on payroll and compensation.
• Strong numerical and analytical abilities.
• In‑depth knowledge of Cambodian labor law.
• Fluent written and spoken English.

Required skills

• Advanced Microsoft Excel for data analysis and reporting.
• Experience with HR software platforms.