Remote Senior Compensation Analyst

Summary

Join Grafana Labs' People team as a Senior Compensation Analyst and leverage your expertise to manage and administer compensation programs. You will provide guidance on compensation matters, conduct benchmarking and analysis, drive annual compensation processes, and act as a subject matter expert on executive compensation trends. This role requires 3-5 years of experience in global compensation, strong analytical skills, and excellent communication abilities. You will collaborate with various teams, ensure compliance, and contribute to strategic workforce analysis. The position offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including equity and bonus (if applicable). Grafana Labs is a rapidly scaling company with a highly technical and ambitious team.

Requirements

• 3-5 years experience in a global compensation role where you have experience with broad-based, sales team, and executive compensation programs, and have prepared compensation committee materials
• Operate at multiple altitudes, prioritize workload and manage multiple projects and tasks
• You should have superior analytical and problem solving skills with a strong focus on attention to detail whilst delivering against tight deadlines
• You will need to be an excellent communicator in all channels (in person, online, in writing) and able to form strong working relationships both in person and virtually
• You will be highly approachable while successfully being able to provide a customer service approach to your role ensuring that everyone, locally and internationally, views you as a “go to” person
• You will be in the detail and happy to own your administrative tasks through to completion

Responsibilities

• Deliver guidance and advisory services to People team and business partners on compensation matters to ensure a balanced approach of market competitiveness to drive attraction and retention of talent while facilitating internal equity across the organization
• Perform regular compensation benchmarking; participate in salary surveys, analyze market and peer group data trends and evaluate impact; review and age structures annually
• Drive annual compensation review and equity planning processes including timelines, communications, budget, systems/tools configuration and testing, training, reporting and calibration. Partner with our People team to ensure salary, bonus and equity communications are delivered with maximum impact
• Act as a subject matter expert regarding emerging and evolving external market trends in executive compensation that impact the design and disclosure of compensation, including corporate governance, legislative and regulatory landscape, proxy advisor policies, and investor concerns
• Support internal and external executive-level compensation offers, ensuring market competitiveness and internal equity
• Assist with the preparation of the Compensation Committee materials and provide supporting analytics and reports; manage the process and timeline for meeting preparation
• Train and enable People team and business leaders on compensation philosophy, strategy, and processes; maintain internal compensation toolkit; update and leverage compensation software
• Maintain Workday Advanced Compensation module configuration; ensure the system is regularly updated to reflect changes to structures, programs, and profiles. Support annual compensation review and promotion processes. Collaborate with HRIS team to ensure system-wide functionality
• Provide analytical support and data analysis, preparing ad-hoc and regular reports
• Conduct strategic analysis of workforce data to identify trends and provide actionable recommendations, including researching best practices
• Ensure compliance with all applicable global compensation regulations
• Participate in special projects and collaborate cross-functionally, including compensation support for establishing new countries/regions

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) designation preferred
• Experience with Workday HCM and Advanced Compensation preferred

Benefits

• Equity
• Bonus (if applicable)