Senior Global Compensation Analyst

About the role

The Senior Global Compensation Analyst serves as a key front-and back-end partner to the business, providing advanced analytical expertise and strategic support across the organization. This role is responsible for balancing compensation best practices with practical flexibility, ensuring solutions are both compliant and business-aligned.

Responsibilities

• Owns data credibility, transparency readiness, and compensation education across the organization.
• Supports the design, update, and rollout of compensation structures (job leveling and wage ranges) annually for AIT US & global locations, ensuring alignment with market trends and organizational strategy.
• Develops career progression frameworks and pay strategies to support talent retention and advancement, including succession planning initiatives.
• Reviews proposed salary increases and provides feedback based on analysis of the labor market and internal equity.
• Reviews requests for new or revised classifications to determine appropriate salary grade assignment.
• Provides market analyses and consults on pay recommendations for both exempt/non-exempt teammates by partnering with Talent Managers on pay decisions and policies.
• Develops, implements, and administers compensation programs, including wages, base salary, bonuses, and incentive structures that support business objectives.
• Evaluates and refines job descriptions, ensuring alignment with external benchmarks and internal career frameworks.
• Audits FLSA exemption classifications and recommends appropriate salary ranges using job description management systems and collaboration with department leaders.
• Leads compensation-related technology projects, including enhancements to market pricing systems, job description management platforms, and automation initiatives that improve efficiency.
• Ensures compliance with regulatory requirements, overseeing compensation-related reporting, audits, and submissions (including but not limited to EEO, California Pay Data, Illinois Equal Pay Registration Certificate, etc.) to maintain adherence to labor laws and internal policies.
• Performs annual and ad hoc compensation analyses to benchmark salaries and wages against national and global market data, supporting competitive pay positioning.
• Monitors industry trends in compensation, wage and hour regulations, human resources practices, and business intelligence, applying insights to enhance department productivity and pay strategy.
• Models complex compensation plans, conducting "what-if" scenarios, interpreting plan structures, and assessing/reporting effectiveness to support strategic decision-making.
• Prepares reports, dashboards, charts, and career path documents summarizing compensation analytics, job evaluation findings, and pay structure recommendations.
• Advise managers and HR leaders on state, federal, and global employment regulations, classification compliance, and pay equity initiatives.
• Mentors or provides guidance to team members on processes and workflows.
• Completes workflows and processes on behalf of the team when other members are unable.
• Facilitates and/or completes salary survey submissions based on team and organization needs.
• Complies with all policies and standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources, Finance or related field.
• 8+ years Compensation at a high-growth company administering broad-based compensation with exempt and non-exempt roles.
• 8+ years Leading and supporting design of compensation architecture including job leveling and developing wage ranges.
• 4+ years Administering compensation on a global basis (Preferred).
• Strong verbal and communication skills.
• High technical aptitude, analytical and problem solving skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Excel (formulas, vlookup, pivot tables, macros, etc.).
• Ability to effectively convey information to others.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Customer service, communications, and organizational skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects at same time.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Proficient at using compensation benchmarking tools (e.g., Radford, Payfactors) (Preferred).
• Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) - Human Resources/Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) within 1-1/2 Yrs (Preferred).

Pay

The wage range for this position is $92,700.00-$139,060.00 and may vary based on geography as well as relative knowledge, skills, abilities, and experience.