Who We Are

NEXT Ventures is where ambition takes shape and momentum becomes movement. As a global platform revolutionising access to performance-based capital, we empower the world's most driven individuals to rise. Through our flagship brand, FundedNext, we empower dreamers to become doers, and potential to turn into performance. With 500+ driven minds across five countries, we power a global rhythm—220,000+ daily users from 170+ nations, each chasing greatness in their own way.

Your Role in Our Mission

Total Rewards Manager driving the execution of global compensation, performance, benefits, and payroll programs in high-performance environments at NEXT Ventures. Partnering with HR, Finance, and leadership to deliver data-driven incentive modeling, performance analytics, compliant reward outcomes, and accurate, on-time payroll across regions. Ensuring pay-for-performance, governance excellence, and operational rigor across global teams.

How You'll Make An Impact

Compensation & Total Rewards Execution

Execute and maintain global compensation frameworks aligned with the firm's trading performance culture, innovation objectives, and growth mindset.
Support the design and administration of compensation structures across trading, technology, research, and operations functions.
Support the annual compensation cycle, including data preparation, bonus pool modeling support, calibration inputs, and executive compensation analytics.
Administer short-term and long-term incentive programs (STI, LTIP, deferred compensation), ensuring accurate calculations, payouts, and documentation.
Prepare compensation benchmarking, market analysis, and scenario modeling to support decisions by the CPO, CFO, and Executive Committee.
Translate compensation strategy into detailed execution plans, tools, and guidelines for HRBPs and business leaders.

Performance Management & OKR Operations

Operationalize the global performance management framework, including OKR tracking, review cycles, calibration data, and reporting.
Support alignment of individual and team OKRs with trading strategies, business goals, and PnL outcomes through data analysis and reporting.
Partner with HRBPs and senior leaders to define measurable performance metrics and scoring methodologies.
Manage performance review timelines, system configuration, and data integrity across regions.
Produce performance insights and analytics that directly inform compensation, promotion, and recognition outcomes.
Act as the subject-matter expert for performance management systems (e.g., HiBob, Revolut), ensuring accuracy, consistency, and user adoption.

Benefits, Wellbeing & Retention Programs

Execute and maintain global and regional benefits programs in alignment with retention objectives and local market practices.
Conduct benefits benchmarking, cost analysis, utilization tracking, and vendor performance reviews.
Support the rollout and continuous improvement of wellbeing initiatives covering physical, mental, and financial wellness.
Prepare ROI analyses, utilization reports, and insights to inform benefits optimization decisions.

Payroll & Expatriate Mobility

Oversee monthly payroll execution across APAC entities, ensuring full compliance with local statutory requirements, tax filings, and year-end reporting.
Maintain payroll data accuracy across HRIS and payroll systems, and partner with Finance on reconciliations, accruals, and audits.
Manage relationships with regional payroll vendors and statutory authorities, and resolve employee payroll queries with discretion.
Lead the full work permit and employment pass lifecycle across APAC markets, including new applications, renewals, cancellations, and dependent passes.
Track expatriate quotas, expiry timelines, and regulatory changes across APAC immigration frameworks to avoid lapses.
Support relocation logistics and documentation alongside Talent Acquisition and People Ops.
Prepare payroll dashboards, headcount cost reports, and mobility analytics for leadership review.

Governance, Compliance & Risk Management

Ensure accurate execution of compensation, benefits, and payroll programs in compliance with local employment, tax, and regulatory requirements across SEA, South Asia, and EMEA.
Maintain governance documentation, approval workflows, audit trails, and compensation and payroll records.
Partner with Legal, Finance, and HRBPs to operationalize clawback, malus, and deferred compensation mechanisms.
Support internal audits, regulatory reviews, and data requests related to compensation, benefits, payroll, and mobility.

What You Bring

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Human Resources, Finance, Economics, or a related discipline.
8+ years of progressive HR experience, including 5+ years in leadership roles across Total Rewards, Performance, or Payroll.
Hands-on ownership of multi-country APAC payroll and end-to-end expatriate work permit management.
Deep expertise in trading and investment compensation models (PnL-based, discretionary, deferred).
Proven success designing OKR or performance frameworks in fast-scaling, data-driven environments.
Working knowledge of APAC employment, tax, and immigration regulations across multiple jurisdictions.
Strong financial modeling and analytical skills (Excel, Tableau, Power BI).
Proficient in payroll software and HRIS platforms.
Exceptional stakeholder management skills, adept at navigating executive and regional complexities.
High integrity, discretion, and resilience in high-performance, confidential environments.

Your X-Factor

Combines strategic vision with operational precision — designing reward and payroll systems that balance fairness, performance, and compliance.
Understands the language of both finance and people, bridging data with motivation.
Navigates regulatory and multi-country complexity with calm and clarity.
Thrives in fast-moving environments where deadlines are non-negotiable.
Champions a performance culture rooted in transparency, accountability, and continuous growth.

Your Journey After Applying

30-minute HR Session with the Talent Acquisition team
60-minute Session with Regional Performance & Total Rewards Lead
60-minute Session with Chief People Officer

Why Join NEXT

At NEXT Ventures, performance is more than numbers — it's the pulse that drives innovation and impact. Join us to architect a world-class performance, rewards, and payroll ecosystem that shapes how success is recognized and rewarded across continents. Be part of the team that turns ambition into achievement and potential into performance.

Your next chapter in global leadership begins here.

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