Aigerim
Zhanabayeva
Business trainer, economist
Specialisation
- Labour economics and enterprise economics
Qualifications
- Candidate of Economic Sciences (labour economics and enterprise economics)
- Internationally certified remuneration expert, GRP
Education and internships
- 09/1995 — 05/1999 Bachelor's degree: economics and management in industry. Pavlodar State University
- 09/1999 — 02/2004 Postgraduate studies: labour economics. Novosibirsk State Technical University
- 09/2004 — 05/2005 Management and consulting classes. Harvard University, Boston
Work experience:
05/2022 — present
- Expanding qualifications: data analysis and business analysis (Almaty, remote)
- Studying ways of combining human labour with automation and robotics
- Analysing exponential business models and pay types for such organisations
- Excel modelling of headcount requirements
- Calculating and analysing data across 2 and 3 sigma intervals to justify KPI norms
- Building a unit economics calculator for platform projects, including payroll
- Currently learning SQL to organise high-quality collection of C&B data
12/2020 — present
- Member of the board of directors at khs international (Harrisburg, USA, remote)
- Take part in board and nomination committee meetings, analyse and comment on the company's operating reports
05/2012 — 11/2020
- Total rewards (GRP) trainer at thunderbird ww (Almaty)
- Trained and certified HR colleagues in international remuneration standards
- 120 hours on remuneration: 5 types of grading, 3 types of salary structure calculation, 17 types of bonuses (LTIs, STIs), 3 pay strategies for employees on international assignments, Excel formulas for C&B models
09/2013 — 08/2017
- Compensation and benefits manager at air astana (Almaty)
- Salary structure:
- Updated the grading structure (~5,000 employees, ~1,000 job descriptions, ~15 countries)
- Organised the updating, systematisation and approval of job descriptions with the heads of 17 departments:
- 100% of job descriptions updated, ~25% of job descriptions and job titles cut
- Automated the process of updating the company's organisational structure and daily synchronisation with the Oracle ERP
- Annual salary benchmark for 100% of employees (~25 locations, ~15 countries)
- Dashboarding of the grading model: salary ranges + market data + annual appraisal results
- Salary increase model taking into account market salaries and employee performance for the period
- Benefits:
- Systematised the methodology for calculating all payments to employees on international assignments (exchange differences in ~10 currencies, ~25 cities, ~15 countries, ~3 payment types)
- Organised and supervised the work of consultants (EY actuaries, Deloitte lawyers) on developing
- and implementing a voluntary corporate pension plan for employees. Implemented 05/2016
- Annual benefits benchmark for 100% of employees (~25 locations, ~15 countries)
- Bonuses:
- Calculated the IPO bonus payment model for 100% of employee categories
02/2007 — 02/2012
- Remuneration consultant-manager, head of department at EY (Moscow, Almaty)
- Founded the salary survey practice at EY Kazakhstan within 6 months
- More than 100 clients annually in benchmarking, grading and HR metrics analytics
- Delivered ~75 trainings for clients
