Compensation Analyst

Summary

isolved is an employee experience leader, providing intuitive, people-first HCM technology. The Compensation Analyst designs, implements, and maintains the company's compensation infrastructure, serving as a trusted analytical partner to HR leadership and other stakeholders to translate market data into pay decisions.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement salary ranges across all functions and levels using market benchmarking data, establishing the foundation for isolved's compensation band structure
• Own the full merit cycle end to end, including budget modeling, manager guidance, approval workflows, payroll reconciliation, and post-cycle analysis
• Build and maintain a job leveling and titling framework that supports pay equity, career pathing, and consistent hiring decisions across the organization
• Lead survey participation, job matching, and competitive analysis using benchmarking tools such as Radford, Mercer, or CompAnalyst, and translate research into actionable recommendations
• Conduct and maintain pay equity reviews, surface gaps, recommend corrections, and track progress over time
• Design compensation models, dashboards, offer-decisioning tools, and reporting that HR, Finance, and Recruiting rely on to make faster, more confident decisions
• Identify and implement AI tools and automation to improve benchmarking speed, analysis accuracy, and reporting efficiency across compensation processes
• Partner directly with HR Business Partners, Finance, Legal, and Recruiting to support compensation decisions that touch every stage of the talent lifecycle

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent work experience
• 3+ years of experience in compensation, HR analytics, or total rewards with demonstrated ownership of comp planning cycles and program design
• Proven ability to build salary structures and job architecture, not just administer within existing frameworks
• Experience running or supporting a full merit cycle end to end, including budgeting, execution, and reconciliation
• Strong analytical and Excel modeling skills with the ability to build compensation models and translate outputs into clear recommendations
• Hands-on experience with market benchmarking tools such as Radford, Mercer, CompAnalyst, or PayScale
• Familiarity with HRIS platforms and the ability to pull, validate, and work with compensation data
• Sound judgment with confidential information and the communication skills to partner effectively across HR, Finance, and Legal
• Experience in a SaaS, HCM, or PE-backed technology company
• Background designing incentive or variable compensation programs
• Exposure to pay equity analysis methodologies and tools
• Professional HR or compensation certification (CCP, PHR, SHRM-CP, or similar)
• Hands-on use of AI tools in analytical or compensation work
• Experience with isolved People Cloud, Workday, or comparable HCM platforms

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent work experience
• 3+ years of experience in compensation, HR analytics, or total rewards with demonstrated ownership of comp planning cycles and program design
• Proven ability to build salary structures and job architecture, not just administer within existing frameworks
• Experience running or supporting a full merit cycle end to end, including budgeting, execution, and reconciliation
• Strong analytical and Excel modeling skills with the ability to build compensation models and translate outputs into clear recommendations
• Hands-on experience with market benchmarking tools such as Radford, Mercer, CompAnalyst, or PayScale
• Familiarity with HRIS platforms and the ability to pull, validate, and work with compensation data
• Sound judgment with confidential information and the communication skills to partner effectively across HR, Finance, and Legal

Nice to Haves

• Experience in a SaaS, HCM, or PE-backed technology company
• Background designing incentive or variable compensation programs
• Exposure to pay equity analysis methodologies and tools
• Professional HR or compensation certification (CCP, PHR, SHRM-CP, or similar)
• Hands-on use of AI tools in analytical or compensation work
• Experience with isolved People Cloud, Workday, or comparable HCM platforms