Senior Compensation Analyst

Company Description

When you join Renaissance®, you join a global leader in pre-K–12 education technology! Renaissance’s solutions help educators analyze, customize, and plan personalized learning paths for students, allowing time for what matters—creating energizing learning experiences in the classroom.

Our fiercely passionate employees and educational partners have helped drive phenomenal student growth, with Renaissance solutions being used in over one-third of US schools and in more than 100 countries worldwide.

Every day, we are connected to our mission by exemplifying our values: trust each other, win together, strive for the best, own our actions, and grow and evolve.

Job Description

The Senior Compensation Analyst is a senior-level professional who is responsible for day-to-day management and client facing support of the company's global compensation programs. Renaissance is searching for a Senior Compensation Analyst who has demonstrated outstanding consultative skills, attention to detail and strong communication skills to support business growth through the design, implementation, and administration of compensation, sales compensation, incentive, equity, and reward and recognition programs. 

The Senior Compensation Analyst is a critical member of the Compensation team and will report to the Director of Compensation. This is a great opportunity to be part of a private equity owned company that has grown rapidly through acquisitions. If you enjoy analyzing data, ensuring data integrity, making recommendations and solutions that help to retain, reward, and recognize employees, this is the place for you! 

In this role as a Senior Compensation Analyst, you will: 

• Serve as a compensation subject matter expert, responsible for providing expert guidance on compensation strategies and practices to teams across the globe. 

• Stay current on industry trends, best practices, and legal requirements related to compensation, and using that knowledge to advise client group to optimize their compensation programs. 

• Lead and participate in projects to develop, implement, and monitor compensation programs including pay-for-performance, pay equity, salary structure creation and modeling, and complex costing scenarios for incentive plans, ensuring alignment with the Renaissance pay philosophy and balanced with market trends. 

• Establish and maintain effective working relationships across the company. In particular your partnership with HR Business Partners, People Relations Managers and other HR Centers of Excellence are especially important for the HR organization to provide a seamless/expertise-driven experience to leaders. 

• Partner with Finance to develop monthly incentive accruals. 

• Lead the global annual salary planning process and short-term incentive calculations, including system configuration and testing, data manipulation and audit, coordination with payroll, and development and distribution of leadership and employee communications. 

• Evaluate and market price jobs to identify appropriate salary grade assignment and career path level and provide guidance and consultation to managers (including offer recommendations, FLSA exemptions, job revisions, etc.) 

• Partner with your peer and the company’s legal, HR, payroll, accounting, tax, treasury and finance teams on stock/equity-related processing, compliance, and reporting (e.g., monthly, quarterly, and yearly reconciliation of records between the equity administration platform and internal systems). This may involve the day-to-day administration, timely recording of new equity awards, exercises, sales, cancellations, and forfeitures. 

• Assess sales compensation practices and ensure appropriate pay mix by role and market trend. 

• Ensure job descriptions are kept current by auditing jobs for content and working with managers to prepare job descriptions reflecting job responsibilities, activities, duties, and requirements. 

• Develop and deliver compensation programs to management, conduct HR train the trainer sessions, and coach employee groups on compensation practices. 

• Ensure programs align with business objectives and follow all applicable laws and regulations. 

Qualifications

For this role as a Senior Compensation Analyst, you must have: 

• Thorough knowledge of and experience with compensation structure and plan designs including pertinent federal and state regulations 

• More than eight years of demonstrated ability in compensation consulting, program design and implementation 

• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy; ability to handle multiple tasks, shifting priorities and ambiguity while remaining flexible. 

• Proficient in HR systems, MS Office, with advanced skills in Excel 

• Ability to work with critical information and maintain confidentiality. 

Preferred skills: 

• Bachelor's degree (B.S.) is required. Finance degree is preferred.  

• World at Work Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) and/ or Global Remuneration Program (GRP) Certification 

• Experience working with equity programs (e.g. stock options) and serving as a liaison between legal, finance, and tax. 

• Sophisticated interpersonal skills, communication, and organizational skills 

• Excellent planning and prioritization, problem solving, and business partnering skills. 

• Ability to resolve issues and maintain constructive working relationships with people at all levels of an organization, both inside and outside the company. 

• Ability to influence and successfully implement organizational changes. 

• Experience managing sales compensation pay and programs. 

• Experience working in a private equity held company, in a company with an international footprint, and in a matrixed management environment. 

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Salary Range:109,500 to 150,550This range is based on national market data and may vary by experience and location.

Benefits for eligible employees include:

• World Class Health Benefits: Medical, Prescription, Dental, Vision, Telehealth

• Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts

• 401(k) and Roth 401(k) with company match

• Paid Vacation and Sick Time Off

• 12 Paid Holidays

• Parental Leave (20 total weeks with 14 weeks paid) & Milk Stork program

• Tuition Reimbursement

• Life & Disability Insurance

• Well-being and Employee Assistance Programs

Frequently cited statistics show that some women, underrepresented individuals, protected veterans and individuals with disabilities may only apply to roles if they meet 100% of the qualifications. At Renaissance, we encourage all applications! Roles evolve over time, especially with innovation, and you may be just the person we need for the future!

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Renaissance is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate with respect to any term, condition or privilege of employment based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, military or veteran status, marital status, or status of an individual in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS

Renaissance also provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state and local laws. If accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact Talent Acquisition.

EMPLOYMENT AUTHORIZATION

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

For information about Renaissance, visit: https://www.renaissance.com/