Compensation Partner – Federal Solutions

Job Description

Parsons is seeking a Compensation Partner to join our Federal Solutions team. This role involves serving as a trusted advisor to business and HR leaders, focusing on salary recommendations, job evaluations, and market pricing.

Required Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, Business Administration, or related field (Master’s preferred)
• 8+ Years of progressive experience in compensation, preferably in a government contracting or defense environment
• Demonstrated experience supporting federal contracting businesses, with strong working knowledge of the Service Contract Act (SCA) and Davis Bacon Act (DBA)
• Strong analytical, communication, and consulting skills, with the ability to interpret data, identify trends, and translate insights into practical recommendations for business and HR leaders
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, capable of influencing across HR, Finance, Legal and business leadership
• Familiarity with compensation tools, incentive planning and job classification systems
• Solid understanding of Fair Labor Standards Act and related wage and hour regulations
• Knowledge of federal contracting regulations and international compensation practices
• Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) designation preferred, or progress toward CCP certification

What You’ll Be Doing

• Compensation Planning (Merit and Incentive Compensation): Lead HR leaders through the annual compensation planning process, engage with HR leaders to ensure accurate and timely submission of compensation data, provide data analytics by proactively running reports and/or leveraging the HR Analytics team to analyze and draw insights on pay equity, identify risks and inconsistencies, and raise/escalate issues or recommend adjustments to help align compensation decisions with Parsons’ compensation philosophy and practices.
• Promotions and Salary Adjustments: Conduct salary analyses and develop recommendations for senior-level roles or complex situations, including unique or highly compensated offers that may involve sign-on bonuses, short-term incentives (STI), and long-term incentives (LTI). Respond to salary equity analyses, providing impartial recommendations to HR and leadership. Monitor salary adjustment spend, track escalation metrics, and inform the business of trends and areas of concern.
• Competitive Pay Analysis: Analyze employee salaries for both compliance, internal pay equity and market competitiveness, proactively identifying and addressing areas of concern with HR leadership. Leverage data to identify potential gaps in competitiveness by job family group, job family, and job profile, and make actionable recommendations making market data and internal peer data.
• New Business Opportunities & Special Project Support: Provide job mapping cross walk guidance between LCAT and Parsons job classification system to the HRBP and Talent Acquisition team members supporting proposal teams for both CONUS and OCONUS new business opportunities. Partner with HR and the business to support special projects and data requests, such as uplift analyses, geographic differentials, Fair Labor Standards Act classifications for unique or escalated cases requiring assessment, customized incentive plans and other compensation-related initiatives.
• Service Contract Act (SCA) Support: Ensure thorough understanding of, and full compliance with, all Service Contract Act (SCA) and David Bacon Act (DBA) requirements on existing and future contracts. Partner with the SCA H&W administration team to address questions from leaders and HR. Lead and/or support SCA activities to ensure ongoing compliance.
• Training and Development: Develop and deliver training for HR and managers or collaborate with relevant content owners/COEs on the design and delivery of training on topics including compensation philosophy, pay-for-performance, compensation planning, promotion and salary adjustments, job structure, offer development, SCA/DBA, and FLSA compliance.
• Performance Recognition: Analyze and report on DRIVE Award spend. Support retention agreement planning, in partnership with HR leaders and legal including ad hoc retention requests and submissions.

Compensation

$112,200.00 - $196,400.00

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Paid Time Off
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
• 401(k)
• Life Insurance
• Flexible Work Schedules
• Holidays

Qualifications

This position is part of our Corporate team. For over 80 years, Parsons Corporation has shaped the future of the defense, intelligence, and critical infrastructure markets. Our employees work in a close-knit team environment to find new, innovative ways to deliver smart solutions that are used and valued by customers around the world. By combining unique technologies with deep domain expertise across cybersecurity, missile defense, space, connected infrastructure, transportation, smart cities, and more, we’re providing tomorrow’s solutions today.