Global Compensation Senior Manager – EU Pay Transparency

Accenture; Kraków; On-site; PLN 350,000 - 500,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Global Compensation Senior Manager to lead EU Pay Transparency initiatives and oversee pay equity across markets. You will design, govern, and communicate Total Rewards programs while partnering with HR, Legal, and business leaders.

You will provide strategic advisory on compensation, analyze market data, and drive analytics using Excel, Power BI, and Workday to ensure a fair and competitive reward framework across the EU and globally.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of direct compensation experience including total rewards

Responsibilities

• Lead design, implementation, and governance of Total Rewards with focus on pay equity and EU directives
• Monitor compliance and pay equity analysis across markets
• Partner with HR, Legal and business leaders to enhance pay equity frameworks and compensation technology
• Advise senior leadership on best practices for total rewards
• Oversee market intelligence and compensation analytics for strategic decisions
• Lead process optimization leveraging technology to enhance compensation operations

Skills

Total Rewards

Pay equity

Regulatory compliance

Leadership

Data analytics

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Power BI

Workday HRIS

Job description

Global Compensation Senior Manager - EU Pay Transparency

As a Compensation Senior Manager, you will lead global compensation strategies as part of a team responsible for designing, building, and communicating rewards policies, processes, and programs that deliver our long-term HR strategy. This role is pivotal in managing Accenture’s global Compensation philosophy and processes, ensuring a consistent and equitable experience for our people worldwide, with a primary focus on EU Pay Transparency, pay equity, and regulatory compliance.

Key Responsibilities

EU Pay Transparency & Pay Equity

• Lead the design, implementation, and governance of Total Rewards programs, with a focus on pay equity, regulatory compliance, and EU Pay Transparency directives.

• Drive compliance monitoring and pay equity analysis, ensuring adherence to evolving EU pay transparency requirements across all applicable markets.

• Partner with HR, Legal, and business leaders to enhance pay equity frameworks and continuously improve compensation technology and EU Pay Transparency practices.

Compensation Strategy & Advisory

• Provide compensation subject matter expertise to stakeholders and advise senior leadership on best practices for total rewards in talent attraction and retention.

• Oversee market intelligence and compensation analytics to evaluate competitive positioning, identify pay trends, and generate data-driven insights that inform Total Rewards strategy and decision-making.

• Lead process optimization initiatives leveraging technology, automation, and analytics to enhance compensation operations and reporting.

Team Leadership & Collaboration

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team responsible for day-to-day compensation processes, fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and solution-oriented culture.

• Inspire and motivate team members by modeling a positive, accountable attitude, championing open communication, mutual respect, and shared ownership of results.

• Build strong cross-functional relationships with HR, Finance, Legal, and business partners to align compensation programs with organizational goals and people strategy.

Qualifications & Experience Required

• 8+ years of direct compensation experience, including expertise in total rewards, market intelligence, and global compensation strategy.

• Demonstrated experience in pay equity analysis, compliance monitoring, and EU Pay Transparency initiatives.

• Proven leadership skills with experience managing and developing compensation teams in a dynamic, international environment.

• Strong collaborative mindset with the ability to work effectively across functions and influence without authority.

• Excellent analytical, project management, and communication skills, including the ability to present to senior leadership and handle highly confidential data with discretion.

• Ability to adapt quickly, work at a dynamic pace, and navigate tight timelines and critical deliverables.

• Advanced proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and Power BI; experience with data analytics and market intelligence platforms.

• Proficient in written and oral English.

• Experience with Workday HRIS Preferred.

• Familiarity with real-time data sources and compensation benchmarking platforms.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360 value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360 value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com

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