Compensation Analyst

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

The Compensation Analyst is responsible for data maintenance, market research, analysis, and recommendations to support and maintain the compensation practices across Avanos. This role involves analyzing market data, ensuring the accuracy and integrity of HR job data, providing testing support, generating reports to support various compensation operations, and managing incoming requests.

This hybrid role is based in Alpharetta and requires three days per week in the office.

Key Responsibilities:

• Daily tasks include management of the compensation department inbox, maintenance of compensation data in the SuccessFactors system, market research, evaluation of jobs, and grading recommendations
• Provide data inputs and actively participate in salary surveys
• Support the annual compensation cycle for merit, short term incentives (STI), long-term incentives (LTI), and respond to compensation questions from the HR teams
• Support key administrative tasks in the SAP SuccessFactors system and the compensation modules, ensuring data accuracy and system integrity
• Provide support to the Compensation team and HR staff for compensation related policies and programs
• Generate and analyze reports to support compensation operations
• Ensure compliance with data privacy regulations and company policies
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues and questions in a timely manner
• Support the compensation department with audits, proxy and compensation committee preparations
• Assist with testing the annual compensation cycle and any required system changes

Your qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree
• 2+years compensation experience
• Proven experience as an HR/compensation administrator, or similar role
• Ability to handle sensitive/confidential data
• Excellent analytical skills with ability to synthesize data and propose recommendations
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Solid understanding of HR processes and data management
• Foundational understanding of compensation practices and job evaluations
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Intermediate knowledge of MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
• Detail-oriented with great organizational skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities

Preferred:

• Experience using SAP SuccessFactors
• Experience with market pricing jobs and job evaluations
• HR certification (e.g., CCP, PHR, SHRM-CP)
• Experience working in a regulated industry environment

The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this classification. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.

Salary Range:

The anticipated average base pay range for this position is $83,000.00 – $94,000.00. In addition, this role is eligible for an attractive benefits package.