AddressSENIOR COMPENSATION ANALYST
Job Summary:
The ideal candidate will be proactive and ready to dive in the deep end. You will be comfortable liaising closely with leaders and employees across the organization. This is a unique opportunity to be a key contributor as the company grows, while continuing your own career journey, through implementing programs that have a significant impact on the employee experience at Amherst. We offer a high energy and collaborative environment with great benefits.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Update compensation philosophy with leadership buy in to align with the evolving business.
- Play a major role in defining our practices and process for benchmarking and refreshing market data, which may vary across different business units.
- Develop updated job architecture, refine salary ranges.
- Ensure our compensation programs are competitive and retention focused.
- Assist in administration of the annual compensation planning process through Workday.
- Participate in incentive program design, analysis, budgeting, and tracking.
- Run quarterly promotions and adjustment processes.
- Develop reporting and analytics that provide insights to the executive team and managers on motivating and retaining a high caliber employee population.
- Provide compensation support and strategy to new lines of business.
- Educate HR and Business Leaders on our compensation program.
- Assess jobs and implement changes as required to comply with FLSA regulations.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Bachelor's degree in business, Finance, Human Resources or related field.
- 5 years of Compensation experience. Experience in investment management or high-tech software companies a plus.
- Must have a deep understanding of total compensation programs including base pay, long-term incentives, benchmarking / market data, and job evaluation.
- Must have experience implementing salary ranges, developing job architecture.
- Strong analytical skills and mathematical aptitude required.
- System savvy
- Strong time and project management skills
- Excellent aptitude in Excel and Workday
- Ability to prioritize and work on multiple requests.
