Sr Compensation Analyst

Sr Compensation Analyst

Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress.

Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring together talented experts across a broad spectrum of business critical corporate functions. Every role plays an essential part in enabling our customers to achieve their goals. Our teams are agile, collaborative, and committed to delivering—for each other, for our customers, and ultimately for the people who rely on the services we support.
Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues already know:

Why Syneos Health
• We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
• We are committed to building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose – Driven to Deliver – which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone’s life.
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress.

Job Responsibilities

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide consultative compensation support to HR and business leaders; research and develop recommendations on offers, promotions, job leveling, and internal equity adjustments using market data and internal analytics.

• Conduct market pricing and benchmarking leveraging salary surveys (e.g., Mercer, Radford) and tools (Payfactors); evaluate competitiveness and formulate recommendations on market adjustments.

• Assist with participation in salary surveys, including job matching, data submission, and validation; analyze survey outputs to ensure alignment with internal job architecture and market positioning.

• Analyze internal pay positioning (e.g., position-in-range, compa-ratio, distribution) and assess internal equity, identifying trends and recommending actions.

• Prepare and present compensation analyses, market insights, and recommendations to Compensation, HR, and business stakeholders.

• Support annual compensation cycles (stay at level, bonus, promotions), including data preparation, modeling, audit checks, and validation to ensure accuracy and consistency.

• Assist with incentive plan administration and plan design support, including tracking, reporting, and payout validation.

• Perform job analysis; draft and maintain job descriptions and ensure accuracy, consistency, and compliance of job documentation across the global job catalog.

• Support job matching, leveling, and grade alignment in accordance with global job architecture and governance standards.

• Partner with HR Operations and HRIS teams to maintain data integrity within compensation systems (e.g., Workday), ensuring updates to job profiles, salary grades, compensation elements, and organizational structures are accurately reflected.

• Utilize HR systems and tools to produce standard and ad hoc compensation reporting, dashboards, and analytics; support development of reporting solutions for business and COE needs.

• Prepare, validate, and analyze compensation reports and datasets; identify discrepancies and support data quality and audit processes.

• Ensure compensation programs and practices comply with applicable laws and regulations (e.g., FLSA, EU Pay Directive, etc.); support audits and recommend corrective actions where needed.

• Support pay equity analyses and documentation, including data preparation and review of outputs to identify and address potential gaps.

• Contribute to continuous improvement of compensation processes, tools, and templates to enhance efficiency, consistency, and scalability across the global organization

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

• BA/BS degree in Human Resources, Business, Finance, or related field

• 2–5 years of compensation or HR analytics experience

• Experience with market pricing tools (preferred)

• Workday or HRIS experience (preferred)

• Strong analytical and Excel skills

• Knowledge of compensation practices and regulations

• Strong communication skills

• Ability to manage multiple priorities

• Maintains high level of confidentiality

Get to know Syneos Health

Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.

No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.

Additional Information

Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above. Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract. Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees. The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.