Senior Compensation Analyst

Golin Chicago is looking for a Senior Compensation Analyst to join our Corporate Human Resource team. We are seeking a highly motivated individual with a strong analytical mindset, ensuring data accuracy and confidentiality for reporting on our overall compensation and incentive programs. 

This role is responsible for supporting the administration and maintenance of our compensation and incentive plans. This is an amazing opportunity for someone looking to gain exposure to compensation planning in a fast-paced global Public Relations agency. The ideal candidate is someone that is analytical, an Excel wizard, has a passion for data and reporting and supporting compensation data planning teams.

Want to "Go All In" with us?

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Preparation and administration of the company's annual incentive plans
• Assists in the administration of the company's bonus/equity program; prepares and disseminates detailed and summary reports to gather management recommendations
• Collecting, maintaining, and analyzing local and global pay data
• Participate in global compensation projects as needed including annual salary surveys
• Support initiatives to audit compensation data including but not limited to - bonus and salary data and employee mobility
• Assist in the distribution of files and report requests where needed
• Ensure the compensation data held in our various systems including HRIS payroll and the executive compensation reports are always up-to-date and accurate
• Assist with pulling and analyzing data for annual Affirmative Action Planning
• Partner with internal HR business partners to address compensation-related needs at different levels including wage transparency
• Analyze internal and external market data, make recommendations when appropriate

What You Have:

• A minimum of 5+ years of experience in compensation experience.
• Bachelor's degree in human resources, finance, business, or related field preferred.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint; strong familiarity with advanced Excel skills such as vlookups, pivot tables, and multiple variable formulas
• Strong quantitative, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to organize and analyze large datasets, detect, and correct errors, interpret and report results to various audiences, take responsibility for data quality assurance and confidentiality required
• Strong teamwork and collaborative skills, working and communicating effectively with other members of the HR team, as well as professionals across all levels of the organization
• Have an analytical mindset, able to suggest ways to look at the data to generate new insights
• Knowledge and experience using high-quality compensation survey tools
• Must be a self-starter, agile, flexible, a problem solver, and accountable

About Golin

We are a global public relations agency poised and staffing for the needs of today. Through our 60+ year history we have redefined the role of PR with best-in-class creative that has earned worldwide attention and awards. Representing some of the biggest Fortune One brands, we offer a suite of services from content creation and production, diversity equity & inclusion strategy, influencer marketing, corporate strategy, and public affairs to name a few. To learn more about Golin visit: golin.com.

Golin is a progressive public relations agency designed to reach the profoundly diverse market. Inclusion is a core value for Golin, and we are focused on establishing a culture that is intentionally inclusive, potently diverse, and uncompromisingly equitable.

Our expertise ranges from brand-building and cutting-edge digital content to corporate reputation, healthcare advocacy and measurement. Golin aligns earned-first, data-driven creative with the customer journey through our collaborative G4 Model to deliver maximum impact for clients. Our roster includes many of the largest CPG, retail, food, healthcare technology and consumer service companies in the world.

We Go All In, in everything we do. We're especially committed to Go All In for our people. We challenge our employees to be Courageously Happy and have empowered them to do so by offering our LifeTime benefits program. Lifetime offers unlimited time off, enhanced family care, ridiculously good health and wellness benefits, and a monthly LifeTime stipend for the gym or hobbies. We really do want you to play as hard as you work!

Recently named:

2022 PRovoke Media North America Agency of the Year

2022 & 2021 PRovoke Media North America Large Agency of the Year

2021, 2020 & 2019 PRWeek Global Agency of the Year 

2021, 2020 & 2019 AMEC Awards Research & Measurement Team of the Year

Winner of a 2019 Gold Cannes Lion

Golin has included the base salary range or hourly rate for this role. Actual compensation offered within the range will depend upon, among other factors: a candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience; actual ranges for current or former employees in the role; and market considerations.

 Salary range:

$90,000 - $110,000

Any request to schedule an interview and any legitimate offer of employment will only come from an authorized representative of Golin. We will never require an applicant to provide sensitive personally identifiable information in order to conduct an interview.

Golin is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability or protected veteran status.

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