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

Renaissance is searching for a Senior Compensation Analyst with extraordinary customer focus 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! 

As a Senior Compensation Analyst, you will: 

• Have responsibility for the ongoing maintenance of salary range structures, ensuring alignment with the Renaissance pay philosophy and balanced with external market competitiveness.  
• Evaluate and market price jobs to determine appropriate salary grade assignment and provide guidance and consultation to managers (including offer recommendations, FLSA exemptions, job revisions, etc.)   
• Manage integrity of data in stock administration database which may involve day-to-day equity administration, timely recording of new equity awards, exercises, sales, cancellations, forfeitures. 
• Partner with 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) 
• Provide guidance to team members during participation in compensation surveys, market pricing, and equity activity. 
• Monitor sales pay structure, assess sales compensation practices, and ensure appropriate pay mix by role and market competitiveness.  
• 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.  
• Prepare special studies and initial recommendations on base compensation bonus plans, sales compensation, or equity. Support administration of domestic and/or international programs.  
• 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 comply with all applicable laws and regulations.  

Qualifications

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

• Bachelor's degree (B.S.) preferred in business or finance, or equivalent experience. 
• Thorough knowledge of and experience with compensation structure and plan designs including pertinent federal and state regulations 
• More than three years of experience 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: 

• 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.  
• Advanced interpersonal skills, communication, and organizational skills 
• Excellent planning and prioritization, problem solving, and business partnering skills. 
• Ability to negotiate conflict 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 company with an international footprint, and in a mat