Compensation Analyst Senior

14219 Enterprise Corporate - People & Culture Compensation

Full time

Yes

40

Remote Role Monday-Friday 8-5pm

Approved Remote Work: WI, IL Divisions:  AL, AK, AR, AZ, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, LA, KS, KY, ME, MI, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NM, NV, OH, OK, PA, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WI, WV, WY.    

Pay Range:

$44.15 - $66.25

Join Us in Redefining Care

At Advocate Health, we're committed to helping people live well by supporting our teammates with competitive, equitable, and market-driven compensation programs. We're seeking an experienced Senior Compensation Analyst to join our Compensation team and help drive strategic compensation decisions through a combination of deep compensation expertise and advanced analytical capabilities.

As a valued member of our Human Resources team, you'll play a critical role in designing, administering, analyzing, and improving compensation programs that support our workforce strategy across a large, complex, multi-state healthcare organization. This role offers the opportunity to influence compensation practices, leverage enterprise data and analytics tools, and partner with leaders across HR, Finance, Technology, and the business to deliver meaningful insights and recommendations.

About This Opportunity

This position is ideal for a compensation professional who combines strong knowledge of compensation programs, market analysis, pay practices, and job structures with hands-on experience using data and analytics to solve complex business challenges.

The successful candidate will be ready to contribute immediately by applying statistical and analytical techniques to evaluate pay equity, market competitiveness, compensation trends, salary structures, and workforce movement patterns while helping leaders make informed compensation decisions.

What You'll Do

• Support administration of compensation programs and annual compensation cycle activities, including merit planning, minimum wage adjustments, compression analyses, market pricing reviews, and incentive award processes.
• Serve as a process owner and/or implementation lead for compensation initiatives and system enhancements.
• Conduct compensation analyses and develop recommendations for individuals, departments, and organizational groups.
• Apply data and analysis techniques to assess pay equity, market competitiveness, compensation trends, salary structure, and workforce movement patterns.
• Utilize Workday, Snowflake, Power BI, SQL, and other enterprise tools to gather, analyze, validate, and report on workforce and compensation data.
• Work with governed HR datasets and enterprise analytics environments, including Workday, Nexus, or comparable platforms.
• Translate complex compensation questions into accurate, practical insights that support business and compensation decisions.
• Proactively monitor and improve compensation data integrity through audits, validations, process enhancements, and system optimization.
• Manage vendor relationships for compensation applications, including upgrades, testing, configuration, training, and ongoing administration.
• Collaborate with HR Technology, Payroll, and other HR functions to support compensation systems, reporting, dashboards, and data governance.
• Support job evaluation activities using established methodologies and market pricing practices.
• Assist compensation leadership with analyses, presentations, executive materials, and project deliverables.
• Manage compensation-related projects from design through implementation while ensuring quality, timeliness, and stakeholder alignment.
• Support market survey participation, data submissions, and market intelligence efforts.
• Collaborate with technical partners to execute large-scale compensation and job data updates.
• Continuously identify opportunities to improve compensation processes, technology, reporting, and operational effectiveness.

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Finance, Business, Economics, Statistics, Analytics, or a related field.
• Minimum five years of progressive compensation experience in a large, complex organization operating across multiple states.
• Experience administering compensation programs, salary structures, market pricing processes, and compensation-related policies.
• Experience partnering with leaders and influencing business decisions through data-driven recommendations.
• Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities.
• Strong knowledge of compensation principles, including job evaluation, market pricing, organizational structures, salary administration, and pay practices.
• Experience using HR ERP platforms such as Workday, Oracle, SAP, or SuccessFactors.
• Experience using compensation administration tools such as CompAnalyst, PayFactors, or MarketPay.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex information clearly to diverse audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a collaborative, team-oriented environment while maintaining a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.

Preferred

• Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) certification.
• Experience conducting pay equity analyses and advanced compensation modeling.
• Strong proficiency with Power BI, including dashboard development, data modeling, and data visualization.
• Experience working with Snowflake or similar enterprise data platforms.
• Experience analyzing workforce and compensation data within Workday and governed HR data environments.
• Knowledge of statistical analysis techniques and workforce analytics methodologies.
• Experience translating large and complex datasets into practical nsights and recommendations.
• Healthcare industry experience within a large, matrixed organization.

This job description indicates the general nature and level of work expected of the incumbent. It is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required of the incumbent. Incumbent may be required to perform other related duties.

Our Commitment to You:

Advocate Health offers a comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs, competitive compensation, generous retirement offerings, programs that invest in your career development and so much more – so you can live fully at and away from work, including:

Compensation

• Base compensation listed within the listed pay range based on factors such as qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training

• Premium pay such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate's job

• Incentive pay for select positions

• Opportunity for annual increases based on performance

Benefits and more

• Paid Time Off programs

• Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability

• Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses

• Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave

• Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs

• Educational Assistance Program

Note: Eligibility for programs listed above may depend on your FTE or status (e.g., full-time, part-time, per diem, temporary, etc.); please ask a Recruiter for more information during an interview.

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