Senior Compensation Analyst

About the Role

Senior Compensation Analyst – Full time. Reports to the Manager, Compensation. Works on site in Midtown Manhattan office three days per week.

Location:

NYC – 1211 Ave of the Americas. Job Req 53493.

• Review and provide thoughtful recommendations in pay across assigned client groups for new hires, promotions, and pay adjustments, using best practices in pay and compensation.
• Handle ongoing job analysis, job evaluation, and market pricing of global positions.
• Utilize advanced data analytics techniques to analyze compensation, HR, and business data; develop reports, dashboards, and predictive analyses to support compensation strategy and workforce planning.
• Lead compensation programs/projects such as the annual merit, adjustment, and promotion increase processes, annual pay equity review, etc.
• Conduct equity analysis of roles in response to changing organizational needs, market values, and geographic differentials.
• Ensure all roles follow our job architecture and maintain the integrity of the structure within the Workday system.
• Analyze Dow Jones global pay practices and provide summaries on pay including trends on business spend, allocations of higher merit increases, and metrics on our pay trends globally.
• Promote our rewards and recognition strategy.
• Manage the accruals, eligibility, meaningful target amounts, metrics, and payout timing for the Annual Incentive Plan and Long‑term Incentive Plans.
• Manage survey requirements.
• Maintain data integrity within the HRIS tool (Workday) on an ongoing basis.

• Willingness to work onsite 3 days per week in Midtown Manhattan office.
• Minimum 5 years in analytic positions including at least 2 years in corporate compensation roles.
• Knowledge of annual salary and bonus processes including corporate bonus structures and sales incentive compensation plans.
• Experience evaluating markets and trends affecting compensation.
• Understanding of employment laws, regulations, FLSA, relevant executive orders, OFCCP, EEOC, and other agencies.
• Experience performing complex functions and utilizing formulas within reporting/analytical tools such as Google Sheets or Excel.
• The ability to tell a story using data.
• Experience working with large datasets in a fast‑paced and fluid environment.
• Experience with the full employee lifecycle (recruiting through termination) from a compensation standpoint.
• Comprehension of HR facets including Total Rewards, Talent Acquisition, Business Partners, Training, and Organizational Development and how these teams operate cohesively.
• Experience formulating, understanding, and solving complex, non‑routine problems.
• Experience taking ownership of your work and solving problems independently.
• Working knowledge of US and international compensation (preferred).

• Comprehensive Healthcare Plans including Medical, Dental and Vision.
• Paid Time Off.
• Retirement Plans.
• Education Benefits.
• Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave.
• Family Care Benefits.
• Commuter Transit Program.
• Subscription Discounts.
• Employee Referral Program.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. EEO/Disabled/Vets.

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