Senior Manager, Variable Compensation & Analytics

Relation Insurance Services; Overland Park (KS); On-site; USD 125,000 - 211,000; Full time

Job summary

Relation Insurance Inc. is seeking a Senior Manager, Variable Compensation to lead the design, governance, and continuous improvement of our variable pay programs across automated and manual workflows.

You will partner with Sales, Finance, and Operations leadership to ensure accurate payouts, data integrity, and compliance, while guiding integration efforts during acquisitions and delivering actionable leadership insights.

Qualifications

• High School diploma or equivalent required.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or related field strongly preferred.
• Minimum 7 years of progressively responsible experience in variable compensation, commissions administration, financial analysis, accounting operations, or related analytical work.
• Minimum of 3 years of demonstrated experience leading teams and/or people leaders in a compensation, finance, or operational environment.
• Strong knowledge of commission and incentive compensation calculations, reconciliations, reporting, plan administration, and operational controls.
• Experience managing or overseeing complex compensation issues across both standardized and exception-based/manual workflows.

Responsibilities

• Leads operational oversight and governance of variable compensation programs across automated and non-automated compensation workflows, ensuring accurate, complete, and timely payouts in accordance with plan provisions.
• Serves as the senior escalation point for complex compensation issues.
• Establishes and monitors operational controls, review procedures, documentation standards, and audit-ready practices to support payment accuracy, data integrity, confidentiality, and compliance with applicable pay requirements and company standards.
• Leads compensation-related acquisition and integration readiness, including review of historical compensation practices, transition risk identification, cutover planning, testing oversight, issue escalation, and post-close stabilization to support accurate and timely compensation payments for acquired teams.
• Reviews and oversees monthly variable compensation calculations, reconciliations, adjustments, and payout reporting across responsible workstreams.
• Ensures strong coordination between automated and manual compensation processes.
• Partners with Sales, Finance, and leadership to support implementation and administration of commission and incentive plans, policy changes, compensation memos, and related communication.
• Identifies, evaluates, and improves variable compensation processes.
• Oversees reporting and analysis from multiple systems and data sources, ensuring data validation, exception research, and integrity of compensation-related information. Develops and delivers compensation reporting, dashboards, and leadership insights that identify trends, risks, and opportunities for improvement.
• Supports preparation and review of commission statements, summaries, dashboards, presentations, and recommendations for finance and sales leadership.
• Leads or supports process, workflow, and system enhancements.
• Supports audits, internal controls, confidentiality requirements, and compliance with applicable pay requirements and company standards.
• Leads hiring, onboarding, coaching, development, performance management, and workforce planning.
• Identifies opportunities to leverage technology, automation, reporting tools, and AI-enabled solutions to improve compensation processing, validation, exception management, workflow efficiency, and leadership reporting.
• Assists with related accounting, finance, operational, and analytical projects and performs special projects and other duties as assigned.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Pivot tables

Data analysis

Communication

Financial analysis

Education

High School diploma or equivalent

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration

Tools

Internal systems

Job description

Relation Insurance Inc. is seeking a Senior Manager, Variable Compensation to lead the design, governance, and continuous improvement of our variable pay programs across automated and manual workflows.

You will partner with Sales, Finance, and Operations leadership to ensure accurate payouts, data integrity, and compliance, while guiding integration efforts during acquisitions and delivering actionable leadership insights.