Compensation Data & Analytics Analyst — Flexible PTO

Staples; Framingham (MA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO (22 days)

7 paid holidays

Online and Retail Discounts

Company Match 401(k)

Wellness programs

Job summary

Staples is seeking a Compensation Operations Analyst to support administration, analysis, and maintenance of compensation programs across North America. The role partners with the Compensation team to ensure accurate deliverables, audits, and data integrity.

Strong attention to detail and collaboration with internal partners are essential. You will handle data preparation, reporting, and process documentation, with focus on accuracy, confidentiality, and timely execution.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related field.
• 1+ years related experience in compensation, HR, finance, or data analytics.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel including formulas, filters, pivots, lookups, and basic data validation.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Support compensation program administration, analysis, audits, data validation, file preparation, reporting, documentation, process tracking, and project-based work.
• Coordinate deliverables by maintaining trackers, preparing files, meeting deadlines, and documenting exceptions.
• Run recurring audits including minimum wage compliance, Oracle HCM data integrity, wage tables, and program eligibility.
• Prepare, validate, upload, and review employee data, planning data, bonus data, audit outputs, accrual files, and reports in Payfactors and Oracle HCM.
• Identify discrepancies, documentation gaps, reporting issues, and escalate complex items.
• Support automation and process improvement by maintaining workflows, checklists, trackers, and data controls.

Skills

Attention to detail

Organizational skills

Judgment

Customer-service

Curiosity

Data summarization

Education

Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business, Finance, Accounting, Economics, or Data Analytics

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Oracle HCM

Payfactors

HRIS / BI platforms

Job description

Staples is seeking a Compensation Operations Analyst to support administration, analysis, and maintenance of compensation programs across North America. The role partners with the Compensation team to ensure accurate deliverables, audits, and data integrity.

Strong attention to detail and collaboration with internal partners are essential. You will handle data preparation, reporting, and process documentation, with focus on accuracy, confidentiality, and timely execution.