Senior Compensation Analyst

The People Operations Senior Analyst, Compensation owns the operational execution, data integrity, and continuous improvement of compensation processes. This role serves as a technical subject matter expert across Workday Compensation, Time Tracking, Time Off, and payroll readiness activities. Working independently with minimal oversight, the role partners with Compensation, Payroll, People Technology, and Finance to execute complex processes, resolve data issues, and improve operational efficiency through system expertise and process optimization.

Responsibilities:

• Own the operational execution of compensation cycles, including data preparation, validation, audits, and issue resolution.
• Conduct complex audits across compensation, payroll inputs, employee records, time tracking, and leave data to ensure accuracy and compliance.
• Partner with Payroll to ensure employee data, compensation changes, and time- related transactions are accurate and complete prior to payroll processing.
• Support compensation operations activities, including job profile creation, compensation grade administration, compensation plan audits, and Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) code assignment and maintenance.
• Identify opportunities to automate manual processes and improve operational efficiency through system enhancements, workflow optimization, and process improvements.
• Leverage Workday functionality, AI-enabled tools, and automation capabilities to improve scalability, data accuracy, and the employee experience.
• Create and maintain operational controls, audit procedures, and documentation to support data integrity, compliance, and process consistency.
• Coordinate activities across teams during compensation cycles, audits, and system changes to ensure timely and accurate execution.
• Serve as the primary operational subject matter expert for Workday Compensation,
• Time Tracking, and Time Off processes.
• Investigate and resolve data discrepancies by performing root cause analysis
• Define and document requirements for system enhancements, integrations, and
• process improvements in partnership with People Technology.

Requirements:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent practical experience, with 4\+ years of experience in Compensation Operations, HR Operations, Payroll Operations, HRIS, or People Operations.
• Experience using AI enabled tools, or building basic AI workflows in systems like n8n
• Demonstrated experience supporting annual and mid-year compensation cycles within Workday.
• Experience performing complex data audits, validation activities, and reconciliation across HR, compensation, payroll, and workforce systems.
• Experience identifying and resolving data integrity issues through root cause analysis and cross-functional collaboration.
• Proven ability to independently manage operational processes with minimal direction.
• Strong understanding of downstream impacts of compensation, time tracking, and employee data changes.
• Ownership – Takes accountability for operational outcomes, ensures data accuracy, and drives issues through to resolution.
• Advanced Workday experience supporting Compensation, Time Tracking, and Time Off processes.
• Strong understanding of employee data structures, compensation plans, job
• profiles, compensation grades, and organizational hierarchies.
• Experience documenting business requirements and partnering with technical
• teams to implement system enhancements.

Must Haves

• Workday Compensation experience
• Time tracking \& leave experience
• Process Improvement
• AI Knowledge

Pay: $48\.00 - $58\.00 per hour

Application Question(s):

• Any experience working with Workday Compensation? Please explain.
• Any experience with time tracking \& leave experience? Please explain.
• Best time to contact?

Work Location: Remote