04:05 INTERVIEW
Oluyomi Okunowo is Senior Vice President, Total Reward and People Operations at Wella Company, a health and beauty firm. His team is responsible for Wella’s compensation, benefits and mobility, the company’s People Support Center (HR shared service), people systems and people data and analytics across all businesses in more than 30 countries. He has a keen interest in leveraging the link between performance and reward to drive business outcomes and, as talent and workforce management evolve in the digital age, he is currently involved in the evolution of people data management, leveraging new technology. Between the L Oluyomi Okunowo
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GPA: What got you into this type of work? Oluyomi Okunowo: My first experience with overseeing payroll came with a Nigerian affiliate of a large international banking firm. My role was compensation and benefits manager, but I was responsible for
payroll in that position. The payroll manager reported to me. It wasn’t global payroll; it was more of having that overall responsibility for the payroll and HR operations function. Then, I left that firm and focused on compensation
in my next roles. While I was at the predecessor firm to the one I’m with now, my work was strictly in rewards. Then, when that firm divested parts of its business, I came back in to oversee global payroll, as well as other people management responsibilities.
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