Senior Incentive Compensation Governance Analyst

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. Support the design and maintenance of a consistent governance framework for variable compensation programs, ensuring controls are clearly defined, documented, and consistently applied.

Posted 5/6/2026full-timeRemote • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Support the design and maintenance of a consistent governance framework for variable compensation programs, ensuring controls are clearly defined, documented, and consistently applied.
Translate compensation design decisions into clear, structured deliverables such as plan summaries, eligibility matrices, decision logs, and governance reference materials, ensuring alignment between design intent and operational execution.
Serve as a key contact for audit and compliance activities, coordinating requests, preparing documentation, and ensuring programs remain audit-ready.
Manage the intake, documentation, and governance workflow for compensation exceptions and off-cycle requests, including deviations from established program menus; ensure exceptions are properly documented, reviewed, approved, and routed with clear accountability for plan design, calculation, and submission.
Maintain end-to-end plan documentation as the system of record for plan details, governance decisions, design updates, and approvals, ensuring consistency in structure, terminology, and version control.
Partner with Incentive Calculation Teams and Incentive Compensation Partners to ensure plan documentation is executable, aligned to calculation requirements, and reflective of approved design intent.
Support program management for incentive initiatives by tracking timelines, milestones, and deliverables to ensure execution discipline across stakeholders.
Identify, document, and escalate risks related to timelines, compliance, or governance standards to appropriate stakeholders for resolution.
Act as a cross-functional coordination point between HR, Finance, Legal, and HRIS to ensure consistent application of governance standards and plan rules.
Provide guidance and communication to stakeholders on governance processes, documentation requirements, and exception procedures to support alignment and execution.
Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree required, concentration in HR, Business, Finance, or a related field preferred
5–7+ years of progressive compensation experience, with meaningful exposure to incentive plan governance, documentation, and program management
Compensation (Variable/Incentive Pay)
Compensation Plan Design & Administration
Governance Risk & Compliance
Business Process Documentation
HR Project Management
Stakeholder Management
Data Analysis & Reporting

Benefits

Comp & perks

a variety of health and wellness insurance options and programs
paid time off
401(k) with company match
employee stock purchase program
employee discounts

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Hard Skills & Tools

compensation designincentive plan governancebusiness process documentationdata analysisreportingcompensation plan administrationgovernance risk complianceHR project managementstakeholder management

Soft Skills

communicationcross-functional coordinationrisk identificationproblem-solvingexecution discipline