Senior Compensation Associate

Join a team that values your ambition and empowers your growth. At Corient, we help high- and ultra-high-net-worth individuals and families to enjoy a full life, while enabling them to preserve their wealth for future generations, and provide for the people, causes and communities they care about. We focus on exceeding expectations, simplifying lives, and establishing legacies that last for generations.

About the role

We are seeking a highly numerate, self-starting Senior Global Compensation Associate to manage, optimize, and scale our international reward frameworks within the financial services sector. In this role, you will act as a strategic partner to Global Finance, HR Business Partners (HRBPs), and business leaders to design competitive, regulatory-compliant compensation programs. You thrive in environments with ambiguity, easily shifting between complex financial modeling and high-level strategy conversations regarding cash and equity structures. The ideal candidate is an analytical expert who leverages Workday to translate dense datasets into actionable business insights under tight timelines.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and audit complex models to evaluate the internal equity and external competitiveness of global compensation programs and create sustainable modeling architecture through automation.
• Leverage Workday's advanced compensation module to manage salary structures, grade profiles, eligibility rules, and merit cycles, including automation capabilities for sustainable compensation modeling and insights.
• Own global participation in and analysis of financial services market surveys to identify talent trends and shifting salary movements; build automated, self-service reports for HR Business Partners, Finance, and other stakeholders.
• Partner with leadership to draft, refine, and model structures for international base salaries, variable cash incentives, and deferred equity awards.
• Serve as the subject matter expert to HRBPs, providing clear, data-backed guidance, including liaising with Finance to ensure a robust bonus accrual process.
• Drive the execution of time-sensitive global compensation cycles, including annual year-end reviews, from initial budgeting to final implementation.
• Translate intricate financial, regulatory, and equity concepts into straightforward narratives for non-technical stakeholders and executive teams.
• Maintain high-quality documentation of global reward structures and ensure strict compliance with regional labor laws and financial services remuneration regulations.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 to 8 years of dedicated, progressive experience in corporate compensation analysis, ideally within the financial services sector.
• Proven hands-on experience utilizing Workday (specifically Workday Compensation) to manage large-scale global salary and incentive programs.
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Mathematics, Economics, or a highly quantitative field.
• Advanced mastery of Microsoft Excel (e.g., index/match, arrays, complex nested formulas, financial modeling).
• Advanced knowledge of global cash structures, bonus pools, and complex equity award mechanics (such as vesting schedules, performance metrics, etc.).
• Extensive hands-on experience utilizing financial services market survey databases (e.g., McLagan, Mercer, Willis Towers Watson).

Skills

• Comfort with Ambiguity: Ability to operate effectively and build structured solutions out of loose, shifting business requirements across different regions.
• Self-Starter Mindset: High intrinsic motivation to initiate tasks, solve problems proactively, and independently manage time-sensitive projects.
• Business Acumen: Strong capacity to view compensation through a financial and operational lens, aligning reward plans directly with business profitability and risk management.

Pay

This position is exempt and is paid according to the laws of the State of New York. The pay range for this position is $140,000 - $170,000 USD per year. This range takes into account factors such as experience, skills, knowledge, abilities, education, licensure, and other business and organizational needs. It is not typical for an individual to be offered a salary at or near the top of the range. Salary offers are determined based on final candidate qualifications and experience.

Schedule

This position requires working onsite 4 days per week.

Benefits

• 401(k) Plan with Employer Matching
• Four generously subsidized Medical Plan options
• Employer-paid Dental, Vision, Life, and AD&D Insurance
• Employer-paid Short-term and Long-term Disability
• Paid Maternity and Parental Leave
• Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Accounts
• Dependent Care FSA
• Commuter and Transit FSA
• Corporate Discount Program (Perkspot)
• Training Reimbursement
• Paid Professional Designations
• Volunteer days for community giving

Physical Requirements

• Ability to work in an office environment, including prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Ability to lift up to 15 pounds.

Corient seeks to make reasonable accommodations that enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential duties when possible.

U.S. Eligibility Requirements

• Must be 18 years of age or older.
• Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States. Corient hires U.S. citizens or permanent residents; exceptions may be made based on shortage of qualified candidates with a particular skill.
• Must be willing to execute Corient’s Employee Agreement or Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure Agreement, including post-employment obligations relating to non-solicitation, confidentiality, and non-disclosure.