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.

Compensation may vary depending on your location, qualifications including job-related education, training, experience, licensure, and certification, that could result at a level outside of these ranges. Certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including annual bonus, and sales incentives depending on the terms of the applicable plan and role as well as individual performance.CA generally ranges: $139,259-$208,888All other locations fall under our General State range: $122,157-$183,235Benefits may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Cloud Software Group and the country where you work. U.S. based employees are typically offered access to healthcare, life insurance and disability benefits, 401(k) plan and company match, among others. This requisition has no specific deadline for completion.