Gurgaon Kty., India | Posted on 01/06/2026
Job Title: Performance Analyst(10+ Years Experience)
Location: Gurugram - Sector 33 (Onsite - 5 Days a Week)
Shift Time: 12:30 pm IST to 9:30 pm IST
Job Purpose
The Performance & Incentive Analyst will own the end-to-end performance incentive governance framework across the organization. This role is responsible for designing and administering KRAs, coordinating monthly self-appraisals, validating reported performance, computing incentive payouts, and delivering accurate, audit-ready performance reporting. The role will also catalyze process transformation, leveraging Power BI and automation to evolve the performance management process into a scalable, system-driven (XOS-based) model.
Key Responsibilities
1. Performance Framework & KRA Design
- Partner with leadership, HR, and functional heads to design and refine KRAs, KPIs, and incentive metrics aligned to business objectives.
- Ensure KRAs are measurable, objective, time‑bound, and incentive‑ready.
- Maintain standardized KRA libraries, scoring methodologies, and weightage logic across roles and functions.
2. Monthly Performance Cycle Management
- Own the monthly performance cycle, including distribution of KRAs and scorecards to employees.
- Coordinate and follow up for timely self-appraisal submissions.
- Track completion, exceptions, and escalations.
- Serve as the central control owner, ensuring cycle discipline and governance.
3. Performance Validation & Incentive Computation
- Validate employee-reported inputs against defined KRAs, supporting evidence/proof points, and system-generated data (where applicable).
- Identify inconsistencies, overreporting, or data gaps and resolve them in collaboration with stakeholders.
- Compute monthly/quarterly performance incentive payouts accurately and transparently.
- Prepare incentive summaries for Finance and HR sign-off.
- Prepare performance incentive reports, scorecards, and leadership dashboards.
- Deliver insights on incentive leakage or anomalies and support management reviews with clear, data‑backed narratives.
- Lead the automation and digitization of the performance management lifecycle, including trend analysis.
- Partner with systems/IT teams to transition the process into an XOS-based or workflow‑driven model to reduce manual intervention, improve auditability, and enhance scalability.
4. Governance, Controls & Documentation
- Maintain audit-ready documentation for SOPs, control checks, and exception handling mechanisms.
- Support internal reviews, audits, and leadership queries related to incentives and performance data.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Analytics, HR, or a related field.
- 4-5 years of experience in performance management, incentive analysis, or related roles.
- Strong hands‑on experience with Power BI (strongly preferred).
- Exposure to automation tools, workflow systems, or analytics platforms is a plus.
- High attention to detail and data integrity.
- Strong follow‑up and stakeholder coordination skills.
- Structured, process-oriented mindset.
- Ability to challenge inputs objectively and professionally.
- Comfort operating between HR, Finance, and Business leadership.