Senior Compensation Specialist Parsons Corporation United States Remote

Job Description

Senior Compensation Specialist

Through collaboration, you can turn good ideas into great outcomes

You believe that it often takes a variety of viewpoints to reach more informed outcomes. You’re energized by open dialogue and collaborative brainstorming. We encourage collaborations, with the understanding that different perspectives can lead to exciting outcomes for all. Let’s talk about how we can work together.

The Sr. Compensation Specialist will play an important role in delivering on and enhancing our compensation programs and associated processes. Through this work you will help take compensation operational excellence to the next level. This is an individual contributor role responsible for supporting the processes and technology (MarketPay) required to support our compensation programs. This position is a compensation generalist role that will be responsible for taking an active role on strategic compensation programs and initiatives, serving as the partner for compensation compliance, and providing general compensation program support.

The position requires an individual who is ambitious, self-directed, inquisitive, resilient, and capable of working autonomously and across a broader cross functional team to achieve the goals of the function and the Company. The role has a mix of recurring responsibilities and initiative-based work.

This position is remote/virtual office. The preferred location will be based near our offices in Pasadena, CA, Charlotte, NC, or Centreville, VA.

It’s “all for one and one for all” in our organization

Supportive team effort is the way to go. Our inclusive workplace demonstrates that when you support each other, there are fewer errors, issues are resolved with comradely communication, and work is shared when necessary to get the job done. It’s a wonderful arrangement, and every member of our diverse staff feels the strength of this unity. We include, respect, and look to promote every deserving individual. If you can give and receive support, you’ll find a like-minded group with us.

Responsibilities

Serve as the primary point of contact and facilitator for our MarketPay/Payscale account:

Update benchmark jobs
Complete Survey Library updates: upload survey results and validate data/ data cuts as they are published, and archive surveys at year end.
Audit to ensure that all survey results/ data cuts are accurate in MarketPay.
Annual migration of the site.
Ad hoc pricing, price new jobs, etc.
User management (one-one trainings, setting up user access, etc.)
Support implementation of new job description management tool (MarketPay Jobs / JDXpert).

Lead and conduct job description reviews with the business, supporting the Talent Leaders/HR Business Partners in the review process.

Support compensation program activities, such as salary survey job matching and data submission, market analysis for executive and non-executive jobs.

Shared support for: Compensation compliance (Federal business), Job & FLSA analysis, M&A integration, and ad hoc compensation analysis.

Compensation reporting and compensation data analytics as needed.

Work closely with compensation team members to understand programs and critically evaluate and identify gaps and opportunity in current process and automation enhancements and make recommendations to improve efficiency and quality controls.

Support compensation project initiatives, as needed.

Skills and Qualifications

Bachelors’ degree or equivalent in Business, Finance, Accounting, Statistics, Human Resources, or related field from a four-year college.
5+ years of compensation experience
MarketPay/Payscale experience (benchmarking tool) or experience as the primary point of contact for a compensation related system/tool
Workday Advance Compensation experience preferred.
CCP designation, or 1 or more courses completed toward CCP certification preferred.
Experience with MS Suite; specifically, Excel and Access.

Our most important resource is your innovative mind

If you’re a pro who’s always thinking of better ways to do things, you’ve found a home. We work smarter by seeking out fresh approaches to every facet of business, from everyday operations to high-level decisions. Our diverse staff hails from a variety of backgrounds, all bringing their valuable perspectives and skills. Here, everyone is included, respected, and offered every opportunity to grow.

Parsons (NYSE: PSN) is a leading technology firm driving the future of defense, intelligence, and critical infrastructure. By combining unique technologies with deep domain expertise across cybersecurity, missile defense, space, connected infrastructure, and smart cities, we’re providing tomorrow’s solutions today.

With a history of disruption beginning in 1944, we apply our distinct perspective to help our customers confront the issues of tomorrow in every domain—land, sea, air, space, and cyber. Our range of capabilities and our global network of resources lets us layer and integrate solutions to respond to any challenge with unmatched agility. In a time of rapid change, we see infinite sources of inspiration to fuel our creativity and enable the innovation necessary to accomplish our quest of delivering a better world.