Compensation And Payroll Analyst

Summary

Join Nextech's People and Culture team as a Compensation and Payroll Analyst! You will play a key role in designing and managing compensation plans and policies, ensuring compliance and market competitiveness. Responsibilities include payroll audits using ADP, supporting payroll processing, and collaborating with various teams. The ideal candidate possesses strong analytical skills, data literacy, and a solid understanding of US labor laws and HR practices. This remote position offers a generous benefits package, including a bonus structure, comprehensive wellness program, and flexible time off.

Requirements

• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in compensation, payroll, finance, or other HR analytical roles
• Experience processing, auditing, and analyzing multi-state payroll for 500+ employees
• Experience with ADP HRIS
• Advanced Excel skills (i.e., pivot tables, lookups)
• Experience with compensation programs, market pricing, salary structure design and development, job evaluation, and analysis
• Strong knowledge of labor laws and regulations at Federal and State level
• Bachelor’s degree
• Ability to deliver concise, accurate reports and analysis to various departments
• Requires the ability to maintain data integrity and accuracy and use data to identify and solve problems
• Requires ability to work independently, plan, organize, and prioritize projects to meet deadlines
• Requires excellent interpersonal skills, and a team player
• Requires a high degree of ethics, integrity, and critical thinking
• Requires ability to maintain confidentiality of all company and customer information

Responsibilities

• Assist in developing and maintaining a comprehensive org-wide compensation program to attract, retain, and motivate top talent
• Support Nextech’s compensation strategy while ensuring compliance, pay equity, and market competitiveness
• Gather market intelligence, identify emerging compensation trends, and prepare reports for recommendations based on research
• Deliver compensation scales to support job level guides and merit process
• Provide support in the annual compensation cycle and contribute to continuous improvement
• Recommend efficiencies and modifications to better use existing technology
• Assist in developing reports, guides, and training materials to support informed compensation decisions
• Partner with HRBP team to help evaluate the effectiveness of compensation programs and processes and look for improvements and automations
• Conduct regular pay equity reviews and maintenance, ensuring compliance with legislative requirements
• Perform regular payroll audits, provide reporting from ADP, and performance management tools
• Serve as the backup payroll processor for a multi-state payroll for 540+ employees
• Ensure compliance with US Labor Laws, Federal, State and Local regulations
• Design user-friendly processes, guidelines, and documentation for use within the P&C team, as needed
• Ensure all HR-related systems are compliant with data protection laws
• Provide support to internal customers by building/creating complex ad hoc reports and analysis
• Carry out additional responsibilities assigned based on business need

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with Current and Arrears Payroll cycles
• Experience transitioning from Current to Arrears payroll
• Experience with 15Five Performance Management Software
• Experience with Workday
• Advanced Excel skills (Macros)

Benefits

• Generous annual bonus opportunity
• 401(k) with Employer Match
• Flexible Time Off: take time off when you need it without worrying about available hours
• 10 paid holidays + 1 floating holiday
• Volunteer Time Off
• Insurance: Choice of Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
• Health Savings Account with employer match
• Flexible Spending Account
• 100% Company-Paid Parental leave
• 100% Company-Paid Life Insurance and Short/Long Term Disability Insurance
• Wellness Program including discounts on medical premiums
• Employee Assistance Program with free counseling sessions available
• Corporate Discounts on Retail, Travel, and Entertainment
• Pet Insurance options