Senior Associate Compensation & Benefits

Job description

**Position Overview**The Senior Associate of Compensation & Benefits will focus heavily on compensation data analytics, market benchmarking, and salary structure design. This is a highly numerical, data-centric role requiring advanced Excel skills to model and manage salary ranges. The ideal candidate will have 23 years of experience collaborating across cross-functional teams to deliver data-driven total rewards solutions. **Key Responsibilities** - **Compensation Benchmarking:** Lead market data collection, participate in salary surveys, and analyze external trends to maintain competitive pay. [1] - **Structure & Range Design:** Build, review, and update internal salary structures, pay bands, and geometric compensation ranges. [1] - **Data-Centric Analytics:** Manage complex data modeling tasks, perform pay equity audits, and turn raw numbers into actionable compensation insights. [1] - **Cross-Functional Stakeholder Management:** Collaborate daily with Talent Acquisition, HR Business Partners, and finance teams to provide structural guidance on offers and promotions. - **Benefits Administration:** Support the ongoing management and roll-out of company health, wellness, and perks programs. **Qualifications & Skills** - **Experience:** 2 to 3 years of focused experience in Compensation & Benefits (with a primary focus on core compensation structures). - **Technical Mastery:** Advanced hands-on proficiency in Microsoft Excel (complex formulas, data cleaning, and modeling) and foundational comfort with Word and PowerPoint. - **HRMS Systems:** Practical, hands-on experience navigating and managing data within standard HRMS platforms. [1, 2] - **Interpersonal Skills:** Strong stakeholder management exposure, with the ability to communicate technical data clearly to diverse internal teams. - **Compliance Knowledge (Preferred):** Foundational understanding of local labor laws, employment regulations, and corporate policies.