Senior Compensation Analyst

Acosta Group; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Acosta Group in New York is seeking a Senior Compensation Analyst to guide leaders and HRBPs on compensation programs, audits, and market analyses across the company.

You will develop and present compensation alternatives, maintain salary structures including geographic differentials, and lead merit, incentive, and annual bonus processes. The role requires strong Excel, PowerPoint, and HRIS skills, plus the ability to manage multiple projects and deliver accurate insights under tight timelines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; related work experience may substitute.
• 4+ years of compensation experience including incentive analysis, administration, and design.
• Advanced Excel skills with pivot tables, k‑lookup (vlookups), graphs; strong PowerPoint and Word.

Responsibilities

• Provide guidance to HR leaders and Partners on compensation programs and regulatory matters.
• Complete job evaluations for leaders and key roles to retain and recruit talent.
• Create and maintain current salary structure including geographical differentials.
• Lead merit, minimum wage, sales incentives, annual bonus, and other compensation programs.
• Audit base salary issues against external market and internal equity.
• Develop compensation dashboards and data-driven insights.
• Design and implement incentive and commission plans.

Skills

Advanced Excel

PowerPoint

Microsoft Word

HRIS knowledge

Data visualization

Strong communication

Project management

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

HRIS software

Salary survey databases

Data visualization tools

Job description

Senior Compensation Analyst

Provides guidance and support to the leaders and HR Business Partners for all compensation related activities. The Senior Compensation Analyst works with a variety of stakeholders across the Company to develop and present compensation alternatives or recommendations while maintaining consistency with the compensation philosophy and guidelines. Recommendations and guidance is often complex and spans multiple business units, sub‑companies or as a result of acquisitions. The position requires a high sense of urgency, strong project management skills, strong database management skills, and the ability to deliver accurate work in a highly complex environment. The position requires annual market analysis with associated recommendations and includes geographical differentials, variable pay, sales and incentive plans and other compensation programs.

Responsibilities

• Provides guidance and consultation to HR Business Partners and Leaders regarding compensation, incentive design, regulatory and other compensation related programs
• Complete job evaluations for leaders, Human Resources and/or Talent Acquisition to retain, reward and recruit key talent.
• Assists and recommends job descriptions for new, modified, and consolidated jobs across the Company.
• Create and maintain current salary structure for entire company to include geographical differentials.
• Leads various compensation processes such as merit, minimum wage, sales incentives, annual bonus, and other compensation related programs.
• Ongoing auditing of base salary issues as it applies to external market, internal equity, and salary guideline compliance.
• Reviews and approves compensation exceptions per the Compensation guidelines.
• Conduct reviews and recommends actions based on the Fair Labor Standards Act and state required compensation regulations
• Performs advanced compensation analysis with recommendations to identify trends, creates dashboards and other requests
• Leads incentive and commission plan design and implementation as required.
• Develops compensation communications and training materials to support various programs and changes
• Partners with other analysts in the identification and implementation of process enhancements and developing new applications or upgrades for compensation systems and tools. This requires documenting business requirements, advising on process, testing systems, and updating data structures
• Assesses the impact of compensation changes as they affect budgets and revenue. Recommends options regarding program design, costs and including alternative approaches.
• Meeting the physical requirements – listed below
• Other duties as assigned

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Related work experience can be substituted for some educational requirements.

Work Experience

• 4+ years of compensation experience including compensation incentive analysis experience, administration, and design experience.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Advanced Excel expertise required. (Includes pivot tables, graphs, Indexing, vlookups and other advanced functionality)
• Excellent experience in PowerPoint and Word
• Prefer HRIS merit and bonus processing experience
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills a must.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills are required.
• Must be able to create graphic presentations of data
• Must be able to handle multiple projects simultaneously and meet tight timelines.

Acosta Group is an equal opportunity employer and will ensure that applicants with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact [e-mail]. Be sure to include "Applicant Accommodation" in the subject of your email to expedite the request.