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Apprentice - Total Rewards
About this role
About the Role Innovaccer is looking for a motivated apprentice to join the Total Rewards team and get hands-on exposure to compensation and benefits operations across a global organization. You will work closely with the Compensation & Rewards team on live programs such as appraisal cycles, promotions, retention cases, and compensation letter generation across our India, US, and UAE entities. This is a learning-first role with real ownership.
You will leave with practical experience in how a high-growth, multi-country company designs, administers, and audits pay. Key Responsibilities Compensation operations • Support the annual and mid-year appraisal cycles: prepare and validate merit and bonus data, and track approvals. • Assist with promotion, retention, and off-cycle compensation cases: gather inputs, build comparisons, and keep clean documentation. • Prepare and audit compensation and promotion letters, checking figures, templates, and employee data before release.
• Maintain compensation trackers and approval records so every pay decision has a clear audit trail. Analysis and benchmarking • Run market benchmarking and pay-range positioning (P25/P50/P75) using survey and market data. • Build peer comparisons and internal equity analyses to support compensation decisions. • Analyse cost-of-living and wage data across locations for the US and India. Benefits and Total Rewards support • Assist with benefits administration, employee queries, and vendor coordination.
• Support rewards and recognition programs and policy documentation. Data and reporting • Build and maintain Excel/Google Sheets models, dashboards, and reports for leadership and HRBPs. • Reconcile data between the HRIS and compensation workbooks, and flag discrepancies. • Help improve and automate recurring processes (templates, formulas, and workflows) to reduce manual effort and errors. Stakeholder support • Respond to HRBP and employee queries on compensation and benefits, with guidance from the manager.
• Handle confidential employee data with discretion and integrity. Required Qualifications • Pursuing or recently completed a Bachelor's or Master's degree in HR, Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or a related field (MBA/PGDM in HR preferred). • Prior internship or project experience in compensation and benefits, total rewards, or HR operations. • Strong working knowledge of Excel or Google Sheets, including lookup and reference functions (XLOOKUP/VLOOKUP, INDEX-MATCH), conditional logic, SUMIFS/COUNTIFS, text and date functions, pivot tables, data validation, and basic charting.