Job Profile Summary

The Benefits Lead is responsible for the strategic leadership, governance, design, and delivery of Accenture Philippines' employee benefits programs. This role ensures that all company-sponsored and government-mandated benefits are competitive, compliant, cost-effective, and aligned with employee and business needs. The position serves as the primary owner of benefits policy governance, program oversight, vendor management, and employee experience across the full benefits portfolio, including retirement plans, HMO (Health Maintenance Organization) insurance, life and accident insurance, time-off programs, allowances, de minimis benefits, clinic management, and other health-related programs.

Job Description

As a member of the Total Rewards leadership team, the Benefits Lead drives benefits strategy, oversees key vendors and broker relationships, leads compliance and audit activities, manages benefits-related risks and financial performance, and partners closely with HR, Finance, Legal, Procurement, Payroll, and business stakeholders. The role also leads benefits transformation initiatives, program enhancements, and governance activities to ensure operational excellence and best-in-class employee experience.

Scope of Accountability

• Benefits strategy, governance, and policy management
• Health, insurance, retirement, and wellbeing programs
• Government-mandated benefits compliance
• Vendor, broker, and contract management
• Benefits financial management and cost governance
• Employee experience and benefits communications
• Audit, risk, and regulatory compliance
• Benefits operations coordination and ally for continuous improvement
• Leadership of benefits team and stakeholder management

Leadership Impact: Delivers a sustainable, compliant, and market-competitive benefits ecosystem that supports Accenture's talent strategy, enhances employee wellbeing, and strengthens the organization's employer value proposition while maintaining effective governance and financial stewardship.

Job Qualifications

Skills and Experience:

• 10+ years of progressive experience in Total Rewards, Benefits, Compensation & Benefits, HR Consulting, Insurance, or Employee Benefits management, with at least 3+ years managerial experience.
• Significant experience managing health, insurance, retirement, and wellbeing programs.
• Strong knowledge of Philippine labor laws, taxation, social insurance, and benefits regulations.
• Proven experience leading vendors, brokers, and complex stakeholder networks.
• Strong financial, analytical, governance, and project management capabilities.
• Experience leading teams and driving transformation initiatives.
• Will manage two direct reports based in Manila.
• The position will report to the Total Rewards Lead for The Philippines.

Educational Requirement

• Bachelor's Degree 

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com 

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