Compensation Specialist
Sentara Health · Norfolk, VA · 3 wk ago
Human ResourcesFull-time
About the role
The Compensation Specialist serves as a key analytical and consultative partner to the Compensation team, supporting the administration and delivery of compensation programs across the organization. This role contributes to ensuring compensation practices are market competitive, internally equitable, and aligned with organizational guidelines.
Responsibilities
- Supports the administration and delivery of compensation programs across the organization.
- Contributes to ensuring compensation practices are market competitive, internally equitable, and aligned with organizational guidelines.
- Partners closely with Talent Acquisition, HR Business Partners, and business leaders to support offer development, market pricing, and internal equity reviews.
- Conducts foundational to moderately complex analyses and translates data into clear, actionable recommendations.
- Supports annual compensation processes through data validation, auditing, and reporting, helping to ensure accurate and consistent program execution.
- Contributes to continuous improvement of compensation processes, tools, and documentation.
Requirements
- Preferred: Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Finance, Analytics, or a related field.
- Preferred: Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) or progress toward certification.
- Minimum of 2 years of experience in compensation analysis, including market pricing, pay range administration, and internal equity reviews.
- Experience supporting Talent Acquisition with offer analysis and compensation recommendations.
- Experience interpreting and applying compensation guidelines to employee and manager inquiries.
- Experience preparing data-driven insights and recommendations for HR and business partners.
- Strong Excel skills, including formulas, lookups, pivot tables, and data analysis.
- Experience working with HRIS and compensation planning tools (Workday & MarketPay preferred).
Qualifications
- Career progression in compensation analysis.
- Knowledge of compensation principles and practices.
- Ability to analyze data and provide actionable recommendations.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Attention to detail and ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
Skills
- Compensation Analysis
- Data Analysis
- Excel Proficiency
- HRIS Systems
- Market Pay Tools
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision plans
- Adoption, Fertility and Surrogacy Reimbursement
- Paid Time Off and Sick Leave
- Paid Parental & Family Caregiver Leave
- Emergency Backup Care
- Long-Term, Short-Term Disability, and Critical Illness plans
- Life Insurance
- 401k/403B with Employer Match
- Tuition Assistance
- Student Debt Pay Down
- Pet Insurance
- Legal Resources Plan
Pay
Competitive salary commensurate with experience.
Schedule
First (Days) Shift.