Senior Compensation Analyst - Accolade Global

Role Overview

As a Senior Compensation Analyst, you are seen as a cross-functional expert on various types of compensation - base pay, bonuses, sales incentives, and equity. You regularly collaborate with and advise P&C Business Partners on new jobs, department reorgs, and/or internal pay concerns. Talent Acquisition seeks you out to provide guidance on offers, ensuring we remain market competitive and internally equitable. You're an influential partner to leadership teams and provide input on sales incentive plan design as well as support plan administration. You routinely partner with the rest of the Compensation Team to analyze our equity compensation plans, to participate in and evaluate results from salary surveys, and to support large-scale compensation projects like career framework, job architecture, and annual merit planning. You are not here to push paper - you are here to influence decision making using your compensation expertise.

A day in the life…

• Serve as a consultant to the organization on compensation best practice; advise leaders and P&C team members on job evaluation, benchmarking, career levels, and job classification

• Analyze existing jobs and build-out career levels that support growth and upward mobility for employees

• Conduct regular job evaluation activities; advise on appropriate career level, pay range, and FLSA classification

• Benchmark new and existing jobs against compensation survey data and other market intelligence to determine competitive positioning and to help establish market competitive pay programs

• Participate in salary surveys; analyze results against existing pay practices and recommend adjustments to ensure structure maintain market competitiveness

• Evaluate the effectiveness of existing compensation policies, guidelines, and procedures; recommend new or revised plans that are cost effective and consistent with market trends and business objectives

• Create reoccurring compensation reporting/analytics and provide support for ad-hoc reporting requests

• Partner with Finance Team on a quarterly cadence to manage the incentive accrual true up process

• Partner with leaders of incentivized groups to provide cost impact solutions and/or opportunities related to incentive plan design

• Create and document policies, terms, and conditions to support compensation plan administration

• Partner with Stock Plan Administration on routine Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) distribution, including data validation and reconciliation

• Support Stock Plan Administration with the timely and accurate processing of equity awards; review equity transactions, monitor employee terminations, and process cancellations

• Help administer semi-annual Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) enrollment windows and purchases

• Ensure consistent records are maintained between Workday and PSW/Fidelity

What we are looking for…

• Bachelor's Degree or 4 years of related experience

• 3+ years of experience working in compensation, sales compensation, and/or total rewards

• Experience with sales incentive plan design and administration

• Experience with salary survey participation (Mercer, Radford, and Willis Towers Watson preferred)

• Experience working with HR Tools (Workday, MarketPay, and PSW/Fidelity preferred)

• Advanced proficiency in MS Excel (including lookups, pivots, macros, etc.)

• Demonstrated understanding of compensation principles, tools, and data sources

• Demonstrated experience collaborating with internal/external stakeholders to drive meaningful results

• Exceptional data management skills; able to reconcile and analyze large datasets and report out key findings

• Strong communication skills; able to articulate findings and recommendations to multiple peer groups and levels of management

• Strong project management skills; able to work on multiple assignments and manage through ambiguity while still achieving desired results

The salary for this position will be set based on the level of experience, skills, and qualifications the candidate brings to the role, in line with