Senior Compensation Analyst

Summary

Join Renaissance®, a global leader in pre-K–12 education technology, as a Senior Compensation Analyst! This senior-level role involves managing global compensation programs, providing expert guidance on compensation strategies, and ensuring alignment with Renaissance's pay philosophy. You will lead projects, implement compensation programs, and partner with various teams across the company. The position requires strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and excellent communication. This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to a rapidly growing, private equity-owned company. If you enjoy analyzing data, making recommendations, and ensuring employees are rewarded and recognized, this is the ideal role for you!

Requirements

• Thorough knowledge of and experience with compensation structure and plan designs including pertinent federal and state regulations
• More than eight years of demonstrated ability in compensation consulting, program design and implementation
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy; ability to handle multiple tasks, shifting priorities and ambiguity while remaining flexible
• Proficient in HR systems, MS Office, with advanced skills in Excel
• Ability to work with critical information and maintain confidentiality

Responsibilities

• Serve as a compensation subject matter expert, responsible for providing expert guidance on compensation strategies and practices to teams across the globe
• Stay current on industry trends, best practices, and legal requirements related to compensation, and using that knowledge to advise client group to optimize their compensation programs
• Lead and participate in projects to develop, implement, and monitor compensation programs including pay-for-performance, pay equity, salary structure creation and modeling, and complex costing scenarios for incentive plans, ensuring alignment with the Renaissance pay philosophy and balanced with market trends
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships across the company. In particular your partnership with HR Business Partners, People Relations Managers and other HR Centers of Excellence are especially important for the HR organization to provide a seamless/expertise-driven experience to leaders
• Partner with Finance to develop monthly incentive accruals
• Lead the global annual salary planning process and short-term incentive calculations, including system configuration and testing, data manipulation and audit, coordination with payroll, and development and distribution of leadership and employee communications
• Evaluate and market price jobs to identify appropriate salary grade assignment and career path level and provide guidance and consultation to managers (including offer recommendations, FLSA exemptions, job revisions, etc.)
• Partner with your peer and the company’s legal, HR, payroll, accounting, tax, treasury and finance teams on stock/equity-related processing, compliance, and reporting (e.g., monthly, quarterly, and yearly reconciliation of records between the equity administration platform and internal systems). This may involve the day-to-day administration, timely recording of new equity awards, exercises, sales, cancellations, and forfeitures
• Assess sales compensation practices and ensure appropriate pay mix by role and market trend
• Ensure job descriptions are kept current by auditing jobs for content and working with managers to prepare job descriptions reflecting job responsibilities, activities, duties, and requirements
• Develop and deliver compensation programs to management, conduct HR train the trainer sessions, and coach employee groups on compensation practices
• Ensure programs align with business objectives and follow all applicable laws and regulations

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (B.S.) is required. Finance degree is preferred
• World at Work Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) and/ or Global Remuneration Program (GRP) Certification
• Experience working with equity programs (e.g. stock options) and serving as a liaison between legal, finance, and tax
• Sophisticated interpersonal skills, communication, and organizational skills
• Excellent planning and prioritization, problem solving, and business partnering skills
• Ability to resolve issues and maintain constructive working relationships with people at all levels of an organization, both inside and outside the company
• Ability to influence and successfully implement organizational changes
• Experience managing sales compensation pay and programs
• Experience working in a private equity held company, in a company with an international footprint, and in a matrixed management environment

Benefits

• World Class Health Benefits: Medical, Prescription, Dental, Vision, Telehealth
• Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
• 401(k) and Roth 401(k) with company match
• Paid Vacation and Sick Time Off
• 12 Paid Holidays
• Parental Leave (20 total weeks with 14 weeks paid) & Milk Stork program
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Life & Disability Insurance
• Well-being and Employee Assistance Programs