Lead Compensation Analyst

Citrix

$110K — $130K *
Business Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related quantitative field.
  • Minimum of 8 years of progressive experience in corporate compensation, specifically in global environments.
  • Advanced proficiency in Workday HCM and advanced Excel (data modeling, macros, complex formulas).
  • Experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau or PowerBI is highly preferred.
  • Strong analytical and financial modeling skills with the ability to distill complex datasets into actionable insights.

Responsibilities

  • Act as a high-impact internal consultant to business leaders on compensation strategies and retention challenges.
  • Drive the evolution of job family structures and career paths to enhance organizational clarity and equity.
  • Lead strategic oversight for Mergers & Acquisitions, ensuring reward integration and harmonization.
  • Execute global annual compensation planning, including merit, promotions, bonuses, and Long-Term Incentives.
  • Conduct comprehensive total rewards benchmarking using global salary surveys and internal data analysis.
  • Lead pay equity analyses and compliance efforts in accordance with global regulations and wage laws.
  • Champion data integrity in compensation systems through audits and predictive reporting.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work in a high-impact strategic role within a global organization.
  • Collaborative and commercially savvy team environment.
  • Engagement in transformative projects, such as M&A integrations that enhance business impact.
  • Access to advanced tools and technologies for data analysis and visualization.
  • Continuous professional development in compensation strategy and data governance.
Full Job Description
Role Overview

As a key strategic partner within our global People Operations function, the Lead Compensation Analyst designs, optimizes, and executes data-driven compensation strategy across a diverse global footprint. Joining a commercially savvy team, you will blend analytical rigor with consulting acumen to ensure our rewards programs remain highly competitive, internally equitable, and compliant.

This role requires a sophisticated understanding of broad-based compensation, market realities, and the ability to translate complex data into actionable, business-focused insights for executive leadership.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Impact & Advisory

  • Business Consultation: Act as a high-impact internal consultant to People Business Partners and business leaders, providing data-backed recommendations on complex compensation challenges, offer formulations, and retention strategies.
  • Job Architecture & Scaling: Drive the evolution of job family structures, career paths, and job leveling frameworks to support organizational scale, clarity, and internal equity.
  • M&A Support: Provide strategic oversight for Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), leading reward integration, role mapping, and total rewards harmonization across newly acquired entities.


Program Management & Execution

  • Cyclical Reward Leadership: Lead the execution of global annual compensation planning (merit, promotions, bonuses, and Long-Term Incentives/LTI). Direct data validation, process automation, and the creation of executive-ready presentations for leadership approval.
  • Market Intelligence & Benchmarking: Architect comprehensive total rewards benchmarking studies using global salary surveys and internal analytics to continuously design competitive, localized salary structures.
  • Pay Equity & Compliance: Proactively lead pay equity analyses and compliance initiatives, ensuring strict adherence to evolving global regulations, FLSA, and wage transparency laws.
  • Data Governance: Champion data integrity across systems (Workday); conduct routine audits and leverage business intelligence to deliver predictive, executive-level reports on compensation metrics and trends.


Qualifications

Experience & Education

  • Education: Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related quantitative field.
  • Experience: Minimum of 8 years of progressive experience in corporate compensation, with a proven track record in global environments.
  • Systems & Tools: Advanced proficiency in Workday HCM and advanced Excel (data modeling, macros, complex formulas) is required. Experience with data visualization tools (Tableau, PowerBI) is highly preferred.


Core Competencies

  • Analytical & Financial Acumen: Exceptional critical thinking and financial modeling skills; ability to analyze massive datasets and distill them into highly pragmatic, commercial solutions.
  • Communication & Influence: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to articulate complex total rewards frameworks cleanly to stakeholders at all levels, including executives.
  • Agility & Discretion: Highly organized with the ability to manage competing, high-volume priorities in a fast-paced, fluid environment while maintaining the highest standard of confidentiality and diplomacy.


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