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Summary
The Compensation Analytics & Technology Coordinator supports the Compensation Office by advancing data, analytics, technology, and process automation capabilities.
This role connects Compensation, Human Resources, Technology, and business leaders to ensure compensation programs are supported by accurate data, scalable tools, efficient processes, and actionable insights. By helping modernize compensation administration through automation, dashboards, system integration, and AI-enabled decision support, this position strengthens governance and supports workforce planning, talent attraction, and retention.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and enhance compensation dashboards, KPIs, executive reporting, and analytical tools to support compensation planning, workforce planning, labor cost analysis, salary movement, incentive effectiveness, pay equity, pay compression, and internal alignment reviews.
- Support compensation technology and systems by partnering with HRIS, Technology, vendors, and Compensation team members to optimize Workday functionality, improve system capabilities, support data integrations, and develop scalable self-service reporting tools.
- Design and improve technology-enabled processes for incentive administration, including eligibility tracking, goal administration, participant management, payout validation, automated reporting, controls, and audit-supporting documentation.
- Identify, evaluate, and support practical applications of AI, automation, and emerging technology to improve compensation decision-making, salary recommendations, market pricing, job evaluation, incentive analysis, and overall process efficiency.
- Establish and maintain compensation data governance practices, data quality controls, workflow documentation, and reporting standards to strengthen accuracy, transparency, auditability, and consistency across compensation and incentive processes.
- Support compensation strategy and future-state process design by contributing analytics and technology expertise to job architecture, salary structure, market pricing, compensation roadmaps, project implementations, and strategic workforce planning initiatives.
- It is the responsibility of this role to take ownership of all tasks and challenges that they encounter in the operation of their assigned position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Qualifications
Education Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Finance, Business Administration, Economics, Statistics, Data Analytics, Information Systems, or related field required.
- Equivalent combination of education and directly related experience may be considered.
Minimum Experience
- Three or more years of related experience in compensation, HR analytics, workforce analytics, HR technology, data reporting, or business analytics preferred.
- Experience supporting compensation planning, salary administration, incentive compensation, market pricing, reporting, dashboards, or process automation preferred.
- Experience working with HRIS, Workday, business intelligence tools, data management processes, or cross-functional project support preferred.
Licenses & Certifications