Senior Compensation Lead: Strategy, Incentives & Analytics

Acosta Group; Yulee (FL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Acosta Group is seeking a Senior Compensation Analyst to guide Leaders and HR Business Partners on compensation programs, job evaluations, and salary structures across the company.

You will perform market analyses, manage complex data, develop dashboards, and support incentive plans while ensuring compliance with FLSA and state regulations. This role requires strong project management and the ability to deliver accurate recommendations in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; related work experience can substitute for some educational requirements.
• 4+ years of compensation experience including compensation incentive analysis, administration, and design experience.
• Advanced Excel expertise required (pivot tables, graphs, indexing, vlookup and other advanced functionality).
• Excellent experience in PowerPoint and Word.
• Prefer HRIS merit and bonus processing experience.
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills are 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.

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.
• Assesses the impact of compensation changes as they affect budgets and revenue. Recommends options regarding program design, costs and including alternative approaches.

Skills

Advanced Excel

PowerPoint

Interpersonal skills

Organizational skills

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

Microsoft Excel

HRIS systems

PowerPoint

Word

Job description

Acosta Group is seeking a Senior Compensation Analyst to guide Leaders and HR Business Partners on compensation programs, job evaluations, and salary structures across the company.

You will perform market analyses, manage complex data, develop dashboards, and support incentive plans while ensuring compliance with FLSA and state regulations. This role requires strong project management and the ability to deliver accurate recommendations in a fast-paced environment.