Senior Compensation Analyst

Salary

Core Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Key Responsibilities

• •Leads participation in external compensation surveys, resolves job matching discrepancies, and recommends competitive positioning strategy across pay levels.
• •Owns the company's salary structure, determining changes to pay grades and range spread/midpoints and presenting them for approval.
• •Reviews and approves job classifications, resolves escalated classification decisions, and establishes classification standards for the team.
• •Oversees the integrity of job and pay records within the HRIS and establishes audit protocols to prevent errors, duplicates, and classification inconsistencies.
• •Analyzes compensation data across the organization to identify systemic pay equity or compression issues and recommends corrective action plans.
• •Reviews and resolves escalated compensation requests and establishes guidelines for how requests are evaluated.
• •Owns the financial models used to project the cost of merit, market, and promotional guidelines, and presents recommendations directly to senior HR and Finance leadership.
• •Leads the merit and bonus planning cycle end-to-end, designs manager guidelines and audit protocols, and resolves discrepancies between planned and actual compensation expenditure with Finance.
• •Defines the compensation reporting standards used across the function and presents analyses directly to senior leadership.
• •Develops and owns compensation policies, procedures, and program guidelines, and determines the policy response to new federal and state compensation regulations.
• •Designs the training curriculum on compensation cycles and pay administration and delivers sessions to senior HR and business stakeholders.
• •Leads process improvement initiatives across compensation workflows, standardizing and automating job pricing, merit cycle, and reporting processes.