Senior Global Compensation Strategist

Assurant; United States; Remote; USD 75,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Assurant's Global Compensation team seeks a Senior Compensation Analyst to transform complex pay data into actionable insights that support competitive and fair pay decisions across the organization. You will manage compensation programs, conduct market pricing, model scenarios, and deliver executive-ready analyses while ensuring data quality and governance.

This role collaborates with People Business Partners and leaders worldwide, with opportunities to drive automation and AI-enabled

Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive compensation/Total Rewards analytics.
• Experience with market pricing, salary surveys, and benchmarking.
• Experience using AI-enabled tools to augment processes.
• Advanced Excel proficiency for data modeling and reconciliation.
• Strong communication and ability to translate data for leadership.

Responsibilities

• Independently manage recurring compensation programs, processes, analyses, and complex stakeholder requests.
• Conduct job evaluations, market pricing, benchmarking, and salary survey activities; interpret findings and develop well-supported recommendations.
• Evaluate job responsibilities, organizational context, internal compensation relationships, and external market practices to assess role scope, level, and competitive positioning.
• Analyze compensation trends, salary movement, incentive outcomes, pay equity, and other workforce compensation matters.
• Build market-pricing analyses, financial and scenario models, dashboards, recurring and ad hoc reports, and executive-ready presentations.
• Support the design, planning, testing, execution, and evaluation of annual compensation programs, including merit, promotion, salary-planning, and incentive processes.
• Review compensation requests and transactions, identify exceptions and risks, and recommend solutions consistent with compensation philosophy, guidelines, and governance.
• Translate complex compensation data and technical concepts into clear, practical guidance for People Business Partners, managers, and business leaders.
• Perform data-quality reviews, audits, modeling, testing, and reconciliation; identify trends, discrepancies, and opportunities for corrective action.
• Lead or contribute to compensation projects and continuous-improvement initiatives, including requirements gathering, analysis, documentation, implementation, and change support.
• Identify opportunities to improve compensation workflows through automation, AI, digital tools, standardized reporting, and stronger quality controls.
• Monitor external market trends, regulatory developments, and evolving compensation practices to inform program decisions.
• Maintain accurate job descriptions, market matches, compensation records, analytical methodologies, and process documentation.
• Share technical knowledge, tools, and effective practices with junior team members.

Skills

Excel proficiency

Analytical thinking

Data visualization

Project management

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Confidentiality

AI tools usage

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Workday

Job description

Assurant's Global Compensation team seeks a Senior Compensation Analyst to transform complex pay data into actionable insights that support competitive and fair pay decisions across the organization. You will manage compensation programs, conduct market pricing, model scenarios, and deliver executive-ready analyses while ensuring data quality and governance.

This role collaborates with People Business Partners and leaders worldwide, with opportunities to drive automation and AI-enabled