Senior Compensation Specialist

Re:work; Letterkenny; Hybrid; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working (two onsite days per wk

Salary range shared with candidates

Job summary

Re:work is seeking a Senior Compensation Specialist to join its Total Rewards team in Letterkenny. The role focuses on compensation analytics, forecasting, the annual pay review, and maintaining the grading and pay framework across EMEA with strong collaboration with Finance and HR leaders.

You will drive the EU Pay Transparency Directive initiatives, oversee the headcount and cost forecasting process, and ensure benchmarking data informs pay structures, while balancing priorities across

Qualifications

• Five+ years in a specialist compensation role within an HR/People team.
• Benchmarking experience using Aon or WTW salary survey data.
• Excel skills to build and maintain complex pay models (lookups, conditional sums, Power Pivot).
• Experience with a people analytics or reporting tool (e.g., Visier or Power BI).
• Experience presenting pay analysis to leaders with accuracy and influence.

Responsibilities

• Be the person senior HR and business stakeholders turn to on the EU Pay Transparency Directive and ensure the grading/pay framework stays compliant.
• Run the annual pay review end-to-end, including pay increases, bonus and LTIs, promotions, and link to performance.
• Build a simpler, more reliable way to report and forecast headcount and pay costs from accruals through to modelling.
• Keep job architecture and market data aligned so benchmarking feeds into compensation structures.
• Answer compensation questions across the People team and explain the pay framework clearly.

Skills

Compensation analysis

Stakeholder communication

Pay forecasting

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Excel

Power Pivot

Power BI

Visier

Job description

Senior Compensation Specialist

Letterkenny | Hybrid, two days a week onsite, on days you choose

Overview

Our client is looking for a compensation specialist to join its Total Rewards team in Letterkenny. The role covers compensation analytics and forecasting, the annual pay review and the upkeep of the grading and pay framework, so it suits someone who enjoys running established processes well and finding better ways to run them. It reports to the EMEA Compensation lead, based in London, and works closely with a US-based compensation and analytics counterpart.

What's on offer

• Hybrid working, with two days a week onsite in Letterkenny, on days you choose
• Salary range and benefits shared with candidates before screening

About the business

Our client is a large global organisation whose People team, including its Total Rewards function, operates across multiple countries.

The role

The role sits within Total Rewards, part of the wider People team, and looks after compensation for a defined set of business areas, with a focus on EMEA and the business's EU pay transparency work. Your closest working relationships will be with Finance, People Operations and the HR leaders who support each area. The wider Total Rewards team is spread across several countries, so you'll see how pay is set and managed in very different markets, and your hours will sometimes need to stretch to fit the team's priorities. Much of the work follows a set annual calendar, with room to rethink how it's done wherever a better approach would help the business.

What you'll be doing

• Be the person senior HR and business stakeholders turn to on the EU Pay Transparency Directive, turning its requirements into practical steps and making sure the grading and pay framework stays on the right side of them
• Run the annual pay review for your areas end to end, covering pay increases, bonus and long-term incentive decisions, promotions and the link to performance
• Build a simpler, more reliable way to report and forecast headcount and pay costs, from accruals through to modelling
• Keep job architecture and market data matching in good order, so benchmarking feeds reliably into compensation structures
• Answer compensation questions from across the People team as they come up, and explain the grading and pay framework so colleagues can apply it with confidence

What we're looking for

• Five or more years in a specialist compensation role within an HR or People team
• Benchmarking experience using Aon or WTW salary survey data
• Excel skills strong enough to build and maintain complex pay models, including lookups, conditional sums, Power Pivot and charting
• Working knowledge of a people analytics or reporting tool, for example Visier or Power BI, with room to grow those skills here
• Experience presenting pay analysis to leaders in a way that shapes their decisions, with the accuracy to stand behind every figure
• Examples of improving a compensation process or solving a pay problem in a new way
• Experience running several compensation projects in parallel to fixed deadlines in a busy team, and the flexibility to work longer hours when the workload calls for it
• A bachelor's degree