From Spreadsheets to Strategy: Front-Line Secrets to Implementing a Comp Solution, With beqom & T. Rowe Price
Every compensation leader knows the pain that spreadsheets can cause.
They’re inefficient, introduce data security risks, and force your comp team to act as data chasers rather than strategic partners. But jumping straight into a new tool without a clear blueprint is where many digital transformations can stall.
Cristina Flores (T. Rowe Price) and Jane Anderson (beqom) offer an exclusive, front-line look at how T. Rowe Price successfully modernized their compensation architecture. They share the exact frameworks, governance structures, and change management tactics they used to eliminate manual risk and elevate comp to a strategic business driver.
What you will learn:
- How to build a solid foundation: How to optimize and document your ideal future process from the get go, and the importance of ruthlessly prioritizing must-haves over edge cases.
- Navigating User Acceptance Testing (UAT): What it takes to kick the tires of a customizable system, how to structure workstreams, and how to learn through testing.
- Change management: What’s needed to support implementation and win over skeptics and spreadsheet loyalists.
- How to measure success: Pre and post-launch KPIs that prove to your organization that the investment was worth it.
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About our speakers
Jane Anderson, Head of Business Development - Financial Services, beqom
Jane Anderson has over 20 years of experience in human resources, with a focus on professional and financial services. As a leader at beqom, she drives growth in the financial services sector, ensuring customers maximize value from the platform. Previously at Morgan Stanley, she held several compensation and analytics roles, ultimately leading compensation operations and the implementation of beqom’s total compensation management platform. Jane has extensive experience managing HR technology, customer success, and large-scale change management projects.
Cristina Flores, Director, Global Compensation, T. Rowe Price
Cristina Flores is Head of Total Rewards at T. Rowe Price, where she leads the firm’s global benefits and compensation teams. She brings more than 30 years of experience with the organization across human resources, compensation, and business leadership roles. Most recently, Cristina led the global compensation team, overseeing the development and management of the firm’s compensation programs and policies and advising HR partners and business leaders on compensation strategy and solutions. Earlier in her career, she held a range of HR business partner roles supporting corporate and distribution business lines, and began her T. Rowe Price career in the firm’s direct-to-consumer and retirement businesses.
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