MARIATASIAN MBERI
Remuneration Specialist
Johannesburg,Gauteng
Summary
A certified Global Remuneration Practitioner (GRP) with more than 14 years’ experience in managing remuneration in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Angola, Madagascar, Guinea Conakry, Zimbabwe and Mozambique
Experience in supporting the configuration, validation and deployment of the Workday Human Capital Software across multiple HR modules and countries
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
3990
3990
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certificate
2
2
Languages
Work History
Senior Adviser Workday Regional Deployment
Rio Tinto Management Services
Johannesburg, South Africa
08.2023 - Current
- Worked closely with stakeholders to manage and coordinate the gathering of data and legislative requirements for South Africa, Mozambique, Guinea, Madagascar, Angola, and Zambia.
- Identify, document, and escalate local risks to Deployment Lead.
- Provide input into the global design and configuration process.
- Lead the localization review with local teams to capture the legal and regulatory requirements, as well as supporting documents.
- Identify local reporting requirements that are critical to support legislative reporting.
- Local lead for the coordination of key resources for end-to-end and user readiness testing.
- Training the HR community and leaders on how to navigate and execute tasks in Workday.
- Point of contact to oversee training and change management activity timelines, including allocation of resources, local logistics, and translation of supporting materials.
- Hub lead for Africa Workday deployment.
Senior Adviser Remuneration
Rio Tinto Management Services
Johannesburg
05.2009 - 07.2023
- Develop professional support with Business Units’ Human Resources departments within the African region (South Africa, Namibia, Madagascar, Zambia, Botswana, Angola, Guinea Conakry, India and China).
- Prepare salary review budgets
- Manage the annual salary review process
- Develop and/or review salary ranges
- Prepare salary offers for new hires, promotions and transfers
- Perform internal equity (Pay Health) analysis and recommend adjustments where required
- Collect, verify and submit remuneration data for salary surveys and use data for market benchmarking and salary recommendations
- Conduct new country entry studies and recommend competitive remuneration package in line with market trends and organizational practice
- Conduct job evaluation (Willies Towers) and validate roles to ensure consistency within the region.
- Support the roll-out of global remuneration programs within the region e.g. Global Banding; annual remuneration review; Special Awards, Short and Long Term Incentive programs
- Upskill Human Resources Operations team on remuneration related issues
Human Resources Generalist
Rio Tinto Murowa Diamonds
Harare, Zimbabwe
07.2004 - 04.2009
- Formulate and review policies and procedures.
- Manage the recruitment and selection process.
- Induct new employees.
- Monitor “end of probation” appraisals and confirmation of appointments.
- Process employee terminations.
- Compile job descriptions.
- Liaise with service providers on salary and benefits surveys.
- Recommend salary increments.
- Prepare the salaries budget input and track spending of the same.
- Payroll processing using Symplexity, which is an integrated HR and Payroll ERP system which interfaces with AXAPTA accounting system.
- Check payroll reports against payroll input.
- Compile monthly reports and statistics as per Rio Tinto reporting requirements.
Human Resources Officer
Save the Children UK
Harare, Zimbabwe
01.2003 - 01.2004
- Recruit and induct staff.
- Prepare employment offer letters.
- Manage employee relations.
- Maintain personnel records.
- Manage staff leave.
- Reporting
Education
Master of Science - Public Administration
University of Zimbabwe
Harare, Zimbabwe03.1999
Bachelor of Science (Honors) - Politics and Administration
University of Zimbabwe
Harare, Zimbabwe03.1990
Global Remuneration Practitioner Certificate
WorldatWork Society of Certified Professionals
USA 04.2001 -
Skills
Data analysis & interpretation
Time management
Reliability
Customer Service
Relationship building
Analytical thinking
Stakeholder management
Written communication
Teamwork and collaboration
Adaptability
Certification
Global Remuneration Practitioner: WorldatWork Society of Certified Professionals
Timeline
Senior Adviser Workday Regional Deployment
Rio Tinto Management Services
08.2023 - Current
Senior Adviser Remuneration
Rio Tinto Management Services
05.2009 - 07.2023
Human Resources Generalist
Rio Tinto Murowa Diamonds
07.2004 - 04.2009
Human Resources Officer
Save the Children UK
01.2003 - 01.2004
Global Remuneration Practitioner Certificate
WorldatWork Society of Certified Professionals
04.2001 -
Master of Science - Public Administration
University of Zimbabwe
Bachelor of Science (Honors) - Politics and Administration
University of Zimbabwe
Languages
English
Shona
Personal Particulars
- Birth date: 17 January
- Nationality: Zimbabwean
- Gender: Female
- Marital Status: Divorced
- Residency: South African Permanent Resident
References
Will be provided upon request
Training
- Effective HR Consulting Skills: Rio Tinto
- Excel Skills for Remuneration Practitioners: RemChannel South Africa
- Reward Management Course: Organisational Excellence
- Frontline Leadership Development: Goldfields Leadership Academy
Personal Particulars
- Birth date: 17 January
- Nationality: Zimbabwean
- Gender: Female
- Marital Status: Divorced
- Residency: South African Permanent Resident
References
Will be provided upon request