Benefits & Compensation Analyst
Job Summary
Job Description
The Benefits and Compensation Analyst enhances the employee experience by ensuring fair, competitive, and compliant compensation and benefits programs. This role requires a strong understanding of benefits administration, leave policies, and compensation structures. Responsibilities include administering employee benefits, overseeing leave policies, developing compensation structures, data analysis and reporting, ensuring compliance, providing employee support, market research, and collaboration with various teams.
Must have:
- Administer employee benefits programs.
- Oversee leave and accommodation policies.
- Develop and maintain compensation structures.
- Prepare reports and provide insights.
- Ensure compliance with laws and policies.
- Address employee inquiries on benefits.
- Participate in salary and benefits surveys.
- Work with HR, finance, and leadership teams.
- Bachelor's degree in relevant field.
- 3-5 years of experience in related field.
- Experience with benefit management systems.
- Experience creating and delivering presentations.
- Ability to handle sensitive conversations.
- Ability to keep information confidential.
- Demonstrated ability to use AI ethically.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Proficiency in HRIS and Microsoft Excel.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Knowledge of federal and state labor laws.
Good to have:
- Certification in Compensation or Benefits.
- Experience with salary benchmarking tools.
- Experience with compensation analytics.
Perks:
- Competitive health plans
- Paid time-off
- Company paid holidays
- 401K retirement program with a Company elected match
- Other company sponsored programs.
8 skills required
Job Details
HHAeXchange is the leading technology platform for home and community-based care. Founded in 2008, HHAeXchange was born out of an idea to create a fully comprehensive end-to-end homecare solution to help people who are aging or have disabilities thrive in their homes and communities. Our employees are passionate about transforming the healthcare space by building the only homecare ecosystem that fully connects patients, personal care providers, managed care organizations, and states.
The Benefits and Compensation Analyst enhances the employee experience by ensuring fair, competitive, and compliant compensation and benefits programs. This position requires a strong understanding of benefits administration, leave policies, and compensation structures to support employees and HHAeXchange’s goals. The ideal candidate thrives in data analysis, stays ahead of industry trends, and collaborates across departments to enhance total rewards strategies. With a balance of analytical expertise and employee-focused guidance, this role helps create a workplace where individuals feel valued and supported.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job duty satisfactorily with or without reasonable accommodation. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Essential Job Duties
- Benefits Administration: Administer employee benefits programs, including health insurance, retirement plans, and wellness initiatives. This includes, but is not limited to:
- Ensuring plans are set up in the HRIS correctly and vendor feeds are working correctly.
- Invoices are reconciled timely, and any issues are handled.
- All annual reporting and filing requirements are done correctly and in a timely manner.
- Owns the timing, communication and execution of annual open enrollment.
- Partners with payroll for 401k administration.
- Work with the CHRO and Sr. Director of HR Operations on annual benefit renewals and mid-year reviews.
- Leave Administration: Oversee leave and accommodation policies ensuring compliance with federal and state regulations. This includes, but not limited to:
- Partner with outsourced leave administrator to ensure leaves and accommodations are handled in a compliant and timely manner.
- Ensure communication is clear and aligned between the outsourced partner, the employee, the manager, and the HR team.
- Compensation Program Administration: In partnership with the CHRO, develop, implement, and maintain compensation structures, including salary benchmarking, pay equity analysis, and incentive programs.
- Data Analysis & Reporting: Prepare reports and provide insights to HR leadership for strategic decision-making.
- Compliance & Policy Development: Ensure all compensation and benefits programs comply with legal requirements and company policies.
- Employee Support: Address employee inquiries related to benefits, compensation, and leave policies, providing guidance and support timely with discretion and clarity.
- Market Research: Participate in salary and benefits surveys to ensure competitive positioning within the industry.
- Collaboration: Work closely with all members of the People & Culture team, finance, and leadership teams to align compensation and benefits strategies with business objectives.
Other Job Duties
- Other duties as assigned by supervisor or HHAeXchange leader.
Travel Requirements
- Travel up to 10%, including overnight travel
Required Education, Experience, Certifications and Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Finance, or a related field and 3-5 years of experience in benefits administration, leave management, and/or compensation program oversight, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Experience with building benefit plans in a benefit management system (or HRIS) and experience building carrier connections.
- Experience creating and delivering effective presentations to small and large groups.
- Demonstrated ability to handle sensitive conversations with employees leading to resolution and upholding confidentiality.
- Ability to keep information confidential and leveraging sensitive information on a needs only basis.
- Demonstrated ability to ethically leverage AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT) to enhance HR processes, communication, or decision-making, with an understanding of responsible AI use in people-related work.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Proficiency in HRIS systems and Microsoft Excel.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Knowledge of federal and state labor laws related to compensation and benefits.
- Preferred Qualifications:
- Certification in Compensation or Benefits (e.g., CCP, CEBS).
- Experience with salary benchmarking tools and compensation analytics.
The base salary range for this US-based, full-time, and exempt position is $75,000-85,000/yr not including variable compensation. An employee’s exact starting salary will be based on various factors including but not limited to experience, education, training, merit, location, and the ability to exemplify the HHAeXchange core values.
This is a benefits-eligible position. HHAeXchange offers competitive health plans, paid time-off, company paid holidays, 401K retirement program with a Company elected match, including other company sponsored programs.
HHAeXchange is an equal-opportunity employer. The Company offers employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, marital status, veteran status, citizenship, genetic information, hairstyles, or any other status protected by local or federal law.
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