Senior and HR Analyst

Job Summary

The Senior Compensation and HR Data Analyst is responsible for designing, analyzing, and maintaining compensation programs and HR data to ensure pay equity, market competitiveness, and data-driven people decisions. This role serves as a key partner to HR, Finance, and business leaders, providing advanced analytics, modeling, and insights that shape total rewards and workforce strategies.

• Design, analyze, and administer base pay, incentive, and other compensation programs to support attraction, retention, and performance objectives.
• Conduct complex market pricing, job evaluation, and internal equity analyses to recommend salary ranges, pay structures, and job levels.
• Lead annual and mid-year compensation cycles, including merit, bonus, and equity planning, data validation, and post-cycle analytics.
• Build and maintain compensation and HR dashboards, reports, and models (e.g., headcount, turnover, cost, pay equity, incentive outcomes) to inform leadership decisions.
• Support the Total Rewards Director to manage and govern HR data within HRIS and related systems, ensuring data integrity, standard definitions, and consistent use across HR and Finance.
• Develop, document, and maintain compensation policies, salary administration guidelines, and job architecture frameworks in partnership with HR leadership.
• Partner with HRBPs, Talent Acquisition, and business leaders on salary offers, promotions, adjustments, and organizational design changes.
• Lead or support participation in external compensation and benefits surveys; analyze results to benchmark roles and inform pay strategy.
• Perform advanced analytics on pay equity, workforce demographics, and regulatory/compliance needs (e.g., pay transparency, pay ranges, audit support).
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, automation, and reporting in compensation and HR analytics; drive continuous improvement initiatives.

• Bachelor’s degree in HR, Finance, Economics, Statistics, Business Analytics, or related field (Master’s preferred).
• 5–8+ years of progressive experience in compensation analysis, HR analytics, or a closely related field, with significant exposure to complex organizations.
• Advanced Excel skills (e.g., pivot tables, complex formulas, modeling) and strong experience with HRIS and reporting tools (e.g., Workday, SAP, Oracle, Tableau, Power BI), SQL, VLOOKUPs, Programming (preferred):
  Basic knowledge of SQL, R, or Python.
• Demonstrated experience running compensation cycles, market pricing roles, and supporting salary and incentive program design.
• Proven experience building and interpreting HR and compensation dashboards and translating insights into practical recommendations.
• Strong understanding of data privacy and security compliance, including federal and state labor laws, anti‑discrimination regulations and adhere to strict data governance and security standards.
• Prior knowledge of government contracting and Service Contracting Act preferred.

• Strong analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to work with large, complex data sets and ensure high data quality.
• Deep understanding of compensation principles, market benchmarking, job evaluation, and pay‑for‑performance practices.
• Knowledge of relevant labor, pay equity, and pay transparency regulations and how they affect compensation design and reporting.
• Consistently deliver work product on a timely basis.
• Clear and professional communications.
• High level of professionalism, integrity, discretion, and judgment in handling confidential and sensitive data.
• Strong partnership and influencing skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively within HR, Finance, team members, and business leaders.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to interpret and explain complex analyses in clear, concise terms to non‑technical stakeholders.
• The ability to embrace Keel’s competencies as listed below.

• Upholds Safety and Quality Standards
• Embodies Team Spirit
• Relentless Customer Focus
• Conveys Integrity, Trust, and Professionalism
• Executes with Excellence and Velocity
• Cultivates Cross Functional…