Senior Compensation Analyst

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Develop, revise, standardize, and uphold job descriptions across all company departments.

• Organize regular reviews of job descriptions in collaboration with department heads and subject matter experts.

• Conduct comprehensive job analyses that encompass essential responsibilities, qualifications, reporting structures, and organizational alignment.

• Maintain a centralized database of approved job descriptions along with necessary approval documentation.

• Ensure compliance with FLSA classification, ADA considerations, EEO language, and other job description stipulations.

• Manage job description review, collaboration, and approval workflows utilizing the Payscale Job Description Manager.

• Act as the main administrator and internal expert for Payscale.

• Perform market pricing, job matching, and compensation benchmarking.

• Evaluate internal and external compensation data to assist with hiring, promotions, salary adjustments, retention strategies, and compensation reviews.

• Prepare compensation analyses and recommendations for HR leadership.

• Assist in pay equity evaluations, salary range analyses, compensation audits, and assessments of market competitiveness.

• Maintain compensation survey data, market matches, job records, and ancillary documentation.

• Facilitate the development of job families, job levels, job grades, salary ranges, and scalable compensation frameworks.

• Create and manage compensation reports, dashboards, scorecards, and data visualizations using AxiomHRS.

• Generate regular and ad hoc reports for HR leadership, Finance, and executive management.

• Build reports on base pay, salary ranges, compa-ratios, range penetration, market competitiveness, merit increases, promotions, incentives, turnover, and workforce planning.

• Create standardized reporting packages for compensation planning, budgeting, leadership reviews, and audit support.

• Validate compensation data across AxiomHRS, Payscale, payroll, and related systems.

• Identify enhancements in reporting, data quality improvements, and opportunities for advancing compensation analytics.

• Assist with the annual merit review, year-end bonus review, and incentive compensation processes.

• Prepare bonus models, calculations, review files, and supporting documentation.

• Conduct quality-control checks and support precise, timely payment recommendations.

• Maintain documentation and audit trails for compensation and incentive calculations.

• Support compensation budgeting, forecasting, and year-end reporting activities.

• Create and maintain templates for offer letters, compensation addendums, incentive agreements, salary adjustment notices, commission-related documents, and other compensation communications.

• Coordinate template reviews with HR leadership and Legal teams.

• Document compensation procedures, workflows, controls, and standard operating practices.

• Suggest process enhancements that promote consistency, accuracy, auditability, and efficiency.

• Perform additional job-related tasks as required.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Data Analytics, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.

• Minimum of four years of progressively responsible experience in compensation, HR analytics, or a related field.

• Proven experience in conducting compensation benchmarking, market pricing, salary analysis, or similar compensation functions.

• Experience in creating, reviewing, or maintaining job descriptions and compensation-related documentation.

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and experience handling sensitive HR or compensation data.

• Strong understanding of compensation principles, market pricing methodologies, salary structures, and compensation administration practices.

• Knowledge of FLSA classification requirements, pay equity concepts, pay transparency mandates, and compensation-related recordkeeping practices.

• Advanced analytical, reporting, and data visualization capabilities.

• Ability to develop dashboards, reports, scorecards, and workforce analytics utilizing HRIS, payroll, or business intelligence platforms.

• Capability to analyze large datasets, identify trends or inconsistencies, and convert findings into meaningful business insights and recommendations.

• Familiarity with compensation metrics, including compa-ratio, range penetration, market position, pay compression, and incentive compensation measures.

• Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel, including pivot tables, lookup functions, formulas, data validation, and reconciliation of complex datasets.

• Strong attention to detail and ability to verify sensitive compensation data and calculations.

• Excellent written communication skills for preparing job descriptions, employment templates, compensation documentation, and reports suitable for executives.

• Strong project management and organizational capabilities.

• Ability to exercise sound judgment, maintain confidentiality, and manage access to sensitive compensation information.

• High-speed internet is required for remote work; Cable or Fiber ONLY with Ethernet capability.

• Minimum internet speeds: 70/30 Mbps basic, 200-300/35-70 Mbps shared, or 500-1,000/100+ Mbps heavy use.

• Preferred: experience in HR, compensation, workforce planning, or executive analytics dashboards.

• Preferred: experience with HRIS reporting tools such as UKG Ready, AxiomHRS, Workday, ADP, Ceridian, or similar platforms.

• Preferred: experience supporting annual merit, bonus, and incentive compensation review processes.

• Preferred: strong experience in data visualization and management reporting.

• Preferred: experience administering Payscale or a comparable platform.

• Preferred: experience developing compensation reports, scorecards, and management reporting packages.

• Preferred: experience collaborating with Finance, Payroll, and HR leadership.

• CCP, SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR, or SPHR certification is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• 401(k)

• Dental insurance

• Disability insurance

• Employee discounts

• Health insurance

• Life insurance

• Paid time off

• 12 paid holidays annually

• Paid training

• Referral program

• Vision insurance

• Referral bonuses

• Remote work arrangement

• High-speed internet requirements and specified minimum connection speeds for remote work