Senior Compensation Analyst POST NUMBER: 474633
Direct Hire, Onsite
Salary: 100-115,000/yr Bonus
Role Description
The Senior Financial Analyst / Senior Compensation Analyst plays a key role in managing and evolving incentive compensation programs.
This role owns high-impact, company-wide processes that directly connect business performance to employee outcomes. The individual will lead end-to-end execution — building and managing timelines, coordinating across stakeholders, and ensuring accurate, on-time delivery — while also working in the details to validate data, build models, and ensure outputs are correct.
Success in this role requires the ability to operate at both a strategic and detailed level — taking ownership of complex processes, driving project execution, and identifying opportunities to improve and scale how the work gets done.
This is a high-visibility role that partners across the business — including Finance, operational and corporate teams — to provide insights that support decision-making and improve how compensation is structured and delivered.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and execute core compensation cycles, including incentive compensation programs and compensation studies, from planning and modeling through validation and delivery
- Lead end-to-end execution of compensation processes — build timelines, coordinate stakeholders, and ensure accurate, on-time delivery across multiple workstreams
- Connect compensation outcomes to business performance by understanding key financial drivers (revenue, profitability, EBITDA) and their impact on incentive programs
- Develop and maintain financial models to support planning, projections, and decision-making
- Establish and maintain processes to ensure accuracy, consistency, and auditability of compensation data across systems
- Identify and implement improvements to tools, systems, and workflows to reduce manual effort and increase scalability
- Partner across the business — including Finance, operational leaders, and corporate teams — to support compensation-related decisions (offers, ranges, internal equity, incentive outcomes)
- Provide guidance on compensation-related decisions to ensure consistency and alignment across the organization
- Develop reporting and insights that translate compensation data into clear, actionable information for leadership
- Ensure compensation decisions are applied consistently and aligned with company philosophy and structure
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field
- 5–8 years of experience in finance, compensation, FP&A, or related analytical roles, with ownership of complex processes or workstreams
- Strong financial modeling and data analysis skills, with advanced proficiency in Excel
- Ability to build, audit, and interpret models that support business decision-making
- Solid understanding of key financial drivers (revenue, profitability, EBITDA) and how they connect to incentive outcomes
- Proven ability to manage end-to-end processes (e.g., incentive cycles, forecasting, planning), including identifying issues and ensuring accuracy
- Ability to synthesize data into clear insights and provide forward-looking recommendations
- Strong communication skills; able to translate complex information for non-financial stakeholders
- Experience improving processes, tools, or systems to increase efficiency and scalability
- Familiarity with financial or HR systems (e.g., Adaptive, Workday, compensation platforms) is a plus
- Compensation experience (incentives, bonus planning, or pay structures) preferred but not required
Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco/Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to the individual’s skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, office location and other geographic considerations, as well as other business and organizational needs. With that said, as required by local law in geographies that require salary range disclosure, Vaco/Highspring notes the salary range for the role is noted in this job posting. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, and can participate in medical, dental, and vision benefits as well as the company’s 401(k) retirement plan. Additional disclaimer: Unless otherwise noted in the job description, the position Vaco/Highspring is filing for is occupied. Please note, however, that Vaco/Highspring is regularly asked to provide talent to other organizations. By submitting to this position, you are agreeing to be included in our talent pool for future hiring for similarly qualified positions. Submissions to this position are subject to the use of AI to perform preliminary candidate screenings, focused on ensuring minimum job requirements noted in the position are satisfied. Further assessment of candidates beyond this initial phase within Vaco/Highspring will be otherwise assessed by recruiters and hiring managers. Vaco/Highspring does not have knowledge of the tools used by its clients in making final hiring decisions and cannot opine on their use of AI products.
Vaco by Highspring values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.
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Pay Transparency Notice
Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:
- the individual’s skill sets, experience and training;
- licensure and certification requirements;
- office location and other geographic considerations;
- other business and organizational needs.
With that said, as required by local law, Vaco by Highspring believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.