Enterprise Compensation Lead & Analytics

Colorado In Motion; United States; On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Confluent Health, LLC is seeking a Compensation Specialist to own the annual merit and incentive cycle, pricing roles to market, and safeguard data integrity for a 10,000-employee, multi-site workforce across 31 states. You’ll drive cross-functional collaboration with Total Rewards, People & Culture Technology, Payroll, and Finance to translate data into actionable recommendations.

The role requires analytical excellence, mastery of Excel, and experience with multi-state pay practices and UKG.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 3 years in compensation, people analytics, finance, payroll, or a comparable analytical role.
• Advanced Excel capability with complex formulas, lookups, and large data set manipulation.
• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills applied to quantitative work.
• Strong organizational and project coordination skills across multiple deadlines.
• Clear written and verbal communication with non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end coordination of the annual merit and incentive cycle: timeline, system configuration, manager tools, approval routing, and payroll handoff.
• Build and maintain merit planning worksheets and budget allocation models; reconcile final awards to approved budget by business line.
• Prepare and quality-check compensation recommendation packets for leader review, including compa-ratio, range penetration, and performance context.
• Manage promotional, market, equity, and off-cycle reviews against defined criteria and approval thresholds.
• Drive the approval workflow to completion, escalating exceptions and stalled approvals rather than absorbing the delay.
• Match jobs to published survey data and price roles across regions; maintain salary structures and geographic differentials.
• Run internal equity and compression analysis; translate market findings into written recommendations with cost implications.
• Administer incentive and bonus plans end to end: eligibility, proration, calculation, validation, and payout.
• Maintain compensation data integrity in UKG through audit routines and correction at source.
• Collaborate with Total Rewards and other functions on system configuration, testing, and release validation.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Analytical thinking

Communication

Project coordination

Organizational skills

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

UKG

Power BI

Job description

Confluent Health, LLC is seeking a Compensation Specialist to own the annual merit and incentive cycle, pricing roles to market, and safeguard data integrity for a 10,000-employee, multi-site workforce across 31 states. You’ll drive cross-functional collaboration with Total Rewards, People & Culture Technology, Payroll, and Finance to translate data into actionable recommendations.

The role requires analytical excellence, mastery of Excel, and experience with multi-state pay practices and UKG.