Description
We are seeking a Lead Compensation Analyst to lead employee compensation programs, ensuring pay practices are competitive, equitable, and aligned with organisational objectives.
Key responsibilities:
- Lead participation in external compensation surveys, resolving job matching discrepancies, and recommending competitive positioning strategy across pay levels.
- Own the company's salary structure, determining changes to pay grades and range spread/midpoints and presenting them for approval.
- Review and approve job classifications, resolve escalated classification decisions, and establish classification standards for the team.
- Oversee the integrity of job and pay records within the HRIS and establish audit protocols to prevent errors, duplicates, and classification inconsistencies.
- Analyse compensation data across the organisation to identify systemic pay equity or compression issues and recommend corrective action plans.
- Review and resolve escalated compensation requests and establish guidelines for how requests are evaluated.
- Own the financial models used to project the cost of merit, market, and promotional guidelines, and present recommendations directly to senior HR and Finance leadership.
- Lead the merit and bonus planning cycle end-to-end, design manager guidelines and audit protocols, and resolve discrepancies between planned and actual compensation expenditure with Finance.
- Define the compensation reporting standards used across the function and present analyses directly to senior leadership.
- Develop and own compensation policies, procedures, and program guidelines, and determine the policy response to new federal and state compensation regulations.
- Design the training curriculum on compensation cycles and pay administration and deliver sessions to senior HR and business stakeholders.
- Lead process improvement initiatives across compensation workflows, standardising and automating job pricing, merit cycle, and reporting processes.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Finance, Economics, or a related field; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Progressive experience in compensation analysis, salary administration, job analysis/evaluation, and market pricing, including experience presenting to senior leadership.
- Experience with human capital management system, compensation management system, spreadsheet software with advanced functions, market pricing data aggregation software, and business intelligence or reporting tools.
- Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) designation preferred.
Benefits & Perks:
- Competitive compensation
- Career growth and learning opportunities
- Flexibility and ownership
- Collaborative and innovative culture
- Opportunity to work on impactful AI projects
- International environment and talented teams