Compensation Analyst

Role Overview

• Lead the administration of the annual base pay and incentive programs for professional, administrative and legal support staff.
• Partner with the Compensation Manager on building out the schedule, providing support to managers through the annual cycle and ensure schedule is adhered to.
• Support the Compensation Manager in developing annual budgets and forecasts for business professional staff.
• Collaborate with HR Business Partners in identify future compensation action items (such as promotions and job changes), gather relevant data for evaluation and maintain appropriate tracking to ensure timely implementation.
• Review upcoming and open job requisitions and for new and existing roles; provide recommendations on job titles, job levels, associated base pay ranges and FLSA status.
• Serve as primary contact for market pricing requests and provide support to managers, recruiters and HR Business Partners with respect to market data, internal equity and compensation guidelines.
• Manage participation in compensation surveys, analyzing survey data, maintaining job architecture and salary structures by functional role, job level and geographic location.
• Collaborate with Senior Compensation Analyst on special projects and during as needed.
• Handle Workday administration for supported populations.
• Audit transactions in Workday to maintain the accuracy of job, salary grade, compensation, and organization information; ensuring that data is complete.
• Participate in configuring and testing compensation and time off functions in Workday; report issues for remediation to ensure transactions have the correct payroll effect.
• Monitoring Workday help case tickets and respond to compensation related inquiries.
• Implement advanced compensation functionality to support base pay and incentives cycles for staff.
• Work with the HRIS to evaluate and implement new Workday features for compensation; support analytics and dashboard projects requiring compensation data; ensure new configurations are accurately tested and integrated with payroll.
• Act as a liaison with our payroll department, coordinating compensation activities and business processes.
• Ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations (e.g. pay equity, wage and hour, federal/state reporting obligations).
• Conduct regular compliance audits, maintain accurate documentation, and proactively monitor regulatory changes to reduce legal risk.
• Work on compensation projects and initiatives; assist with data collection and analysis; answer questions about programs and policies from managers and employees.
• Research and assemble workforce-related data to support a wide variety of firm initiatives, functions, and programs, including management presentations and exhibits.
• Manage compensation program documents within the firm’s document management system; ensure that shared files are orderly and up to date; manage security access.
• Perform related duties as assigned or directed by supervisor.
• Maintain compliance with all firm policies and procedures.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of related functional experience.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in an employee compensation or total rewards role; law firm experience a plus.
• Experience with Workday compensation modules, business process, and reporting, is strongly preferred.
• Must possess a strong analytical ability, intellectual curiosity, organizational skills and creativity.
• Ability to work efficiently with managing and manipulating spreadsheets and large amounts of data as well as produce well-organized, timely, and accurate work.
• Advanced MS Excel skills.
• Experience with Global Compensation a plus.

Benefits

• Discretionary year-end merit bonus based on performance
• Competitive salary and benefits package