Senior Associate, Compensation Specialist

Ankura is a team of excellence founded on innovation and growth.

Practice Overview

The People Office provides support to Ankura professionals for effective HR guidance and strategic business objectives of the firm. The People Office team provides a wide variety of subject matter expertise to our professionals including, but not limited to, recruiting, onboarding, benefits administration, training, professional development, and corporate compliance.

Role Overview

The Global Compensation Specialist will define and execute our firm’s Total Rewards strategy. This includes job leveling, compensation benchmarking, career-pathing, as well as executing our merit, bonus, and promotion processes. This is a key position within the People Office Rewards & Analytics team, helping to craft and scale critical compensation practices and processes across all Business Groups and markets at Ankura. This role is ideally based in Gurugram, India, but could potentially be in Mumbai as well.

Responsibilities

• Drive compensation strategies across Ankura by evaluating, implementing, and advising on compensation programs.
• Conducts compensation surveys, job evaluations, and associated analysis to ensure that base pay, incentive pay, variable pay, and other recognition options remain competitive and conform to current compensation strategy.
• Supports the development, implementation, and administration of annual merit and promotion cycles.
• Ensures compensation data is entered into Workday consistently and accurately; leads audits and ensures data integrity.   
• Collaborate with Business Group Leaders, People Office, Legal, and Finance regarding benchmarking, pay decisions, and rewards policies, including offers, promotions, etc.
• Provide consultative support to our People Advisory and People Acquisition teams related to compensation practices that support the talent strategy, address organizational challenges, and support key business priorities.
• Provide timely support for internal and external audits, data requests, etc. while ensuring the confidentiality of people data, ensuring compliance with data protection regulations and GDPR.
• Monitor country compensation legislation and regulations to ensure compliance.
• Supports broader Total Rewards projects as needed, including Global Benefits, Workforce Planning, People Analytics & Insights, Recognize@Ankura, etc.

Requirements

• 5+ years of progressive compensation experience 
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution
• Experience building and executing comprehensive global compensation programs
• Knowledgeable of all major aspects of compensation delivery and design principles
• Demonstrable experience with job architecture frameworks and salary structure design
• Strong Excel, data collection, and data visualization skills
• Executive presence and presentation skills
• Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) or equivalent preferred
• Experience working in the professional services industry preferred
• Strong communication, analytical, and human relations skills
• Skilled at effectively managing and prioritizing escalations or business-critical situations
• Consistently exhibits high levels of discretion, integrity, and confidentiality

Hybrid - 3 days a week in office

Timings - Day shift but may have to be active till late night for US reporting

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