Strategic Total Rewards Manager: Comp & Benefits Analytics

Sunrise Senior Living; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 108,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and_Dis

Disability Plans

Retirement Savings Plans

Employee Assistant Program / Discount

Paid time off (PTO), sick time, and_h

myFlexPay to get paid within hours of/

Tuition Reimbursement

Discretionary bonuses (eligibility may

Job summary

Sunrise Senior Living in McLean, VA is seeking a Total Rewards Manager to lead compensation and benefits analytics across the U.S. and Canada.

You will partner with HR and senior leadership to connect total rewards investments with talent attraction, retention, pay equity, and business outcomes. The role requires 5+ years in compensation and benefits, advanced Excel and Workday experience, and strong data modeling and stakeholder skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; CCP, CEBS, CBP, or SHRM certification preferred.
• 5+ years of progressive compensation and benefits/Total Rewards experience.
• Experience with salary benchmarking, compensation structures, annual cycles, benefits design, pay equity, and financial modeling.
• Advanced Excel and HRIS/HCM experience, including Workday preferred.
• Strong analytical, data modeling, consulting, project management, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working with large, multi-source datasets and executive reporting.

Responsibilities

• Lead compensation and benefits analytics, benchmarking, dashboards, workforce reporting, and executive-ready insights.
• Analyze large HR, payroll, market, and benefits datasets to forecast costs, identify trends, and measure program effectiveness.
• Support salary structures, pay ranges, job evaluations, market pricing, compensation philosophy, and annual compensation cycles.
• Conduct pay equity analyses, including regression modeling, remediation scenarios, and cost-impact analysis.
• Build financial models for base pay, short-term incentives, benefits funding, and cost-benefit scenarios.
• Support health, welfare, retirement, and wellbeing benefits strategy, plan design, renewals, benchmarking, and vendor management.
• Partner with HR, Finance, HRBPs, brokers, vendors, and senior leadership on Total Rewards strategy and projects.
• Ensure compliance with applicable pay transparency, minimum wage, ERISA, ACA, HIPAA, and COBRA requirements.
• Leverage Workday, HRIS, Excel, analytics, automation, AI, and machine-learning tools to improve reporting and decision-making.
• Develop clear compensation and benefits communications and support executive and investor-level reporting.

Skills

compensation analytics

pay equity

data modeling

stakeholder management

analytical thinking

HR analytics

Education

Bachelor's degree

CCP/CEBS/CBP/SHRM certification

Tools

Workday

Excel

HRIS/HCM

Job description

Sunrise Senior Living in McLean, VA is seeking a Total Rewards Manager to lead compensation and benefits analytics across the U.S. and Canada.

You will partner with HR and senior leadership to connect total rewards investments with talent attraction, retention, pay equity, and business outcomes. The role requires 5+ years in compensation and benefits, advanced Excel and Workday experience, and strong data modeling and stakeholder skills.