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Fives Group is seeking a Compensation Analyst
About Fives Group:
Fives Group, headquartered in Paris, France, is an industrial engineering group founded in 1812 that designs and supplies machines, process equipment and production lines for the world's largest industrial groups including the aluminum, steel, tube and pipe, glass, automotive, aerospace, logistics, cement and energy sectors. Fives has achieved sales of over $2.5 billion with a team of over 9000 employees and a network of over 100 operational units in over 25 countries.
Overview:
The Compensation Analyst supports compensation and employee rewards programs through accurate data preparation, routine analysis, market pricing, program administration, reporting, and coordination with HR, Finance, Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Payroll, business leaders, and external vendors. The role completes recurring processes, research routine issues, maintains documentation, and prepares summaries and materials for review by the Total Rewards team
Responsibilities:
Market Pricing and Job Evaluation Support
- Completes assigned market-pricing and job-evaluation activities using approved survey sources, matching guidelines, and established procedures.
- Reviews job information, research potential benchmarks, documents proposed matches and assumptions, and submits work for review.
- Prepares comparison files, summaries, and supporting documentation for benchmark and pay-structure maintenance.
- Gathers requirements and relevant data for routine compensation requests and escalates incomplete or unusual requests.
Compensation and Rewards Program Administration
- Supports recurring compensation and employee rewards activities, including annual salary administration, recognition and referral awards, survey participation, and related communications.
- Coordinates assigned data exchanges, eligibility checks, invoices, purchase orders, reconciliations, testing, and issue tracking with internal partners and external vendors.
- Updates process calendars, documentation, controls, and status trackers and follows up on deadlines, approvals, exceptions, and open items.
- Research routine data or process issues, documents findings, make corrections within established procedures, and escalate unresolved items.
Data Analysis, Reporting, and Documentation
- Performs standard range-positioning, geographic-differential, pay-equity, compression, and scenario analyses using established templates and methods.
- Reconciles information across data sources, checks calculations, research variances, and documents corrections or open questions.
- Updates compensation survey data, benchmarking applications, HRIS files, compensation platforms, routine reports, and supporting records.
- Prepares routine reports, summaries, presentation materials, and supporting detail using approved templates.
Compliance and Team Support
- Supports wage-and-hour reviews, FLSA documentation, reporting requirements, audits, and confidential record handling.
- Updates compensation tools, templates, procedures, training materials, and job description records.
- Responds to routine questions about compensation processes and program guidelines and refers exceptions or policy questions to the appropriate team member.
- Supports assigned compensation and cross-functional HR projects and uses approved digital tools responsibly
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in human resources, business administration, finance, analytics, or related discipline preferred.
- 3-5 years of compensation, human resources, finance, or data-analysis experience preferred, including exposure to market pricing, job evaluation, salary surveys, or program administration.
- Foundational knowledge of compensation principles, including market pricing, job evaluation, salary structures, pay equity, geographic differentials, and wage-and-hour requirements.
- Ability to review job information, research benchmark options, follow established matching guidelines, and document work for review.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, including formulas, lookups, pivot tables, data validation, reconciliation, and organization of moderately large data sets.
- Ability to learn and use compensation systems, HRIS data, reporting tools, workflow testing, and vendor-supported applications.
- Ability to follow documented processes, manage recurring deadlines, maintain accurate records, and complete assigned work with guidance.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to check data, calculations, and documents for accuracy and completeness.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, including preparation of routine reports, summaries, and presentation materials.
- Ability to explain routine methods and results, respond to standard questions, and escalate exceptions appropriately.
- Organizational, problem-solving, and follow-through skills, with sound judgment in handling confidential employee and pay information.
- Willingness to learn compensation practices, systems, tools, and processes through training, feedback, and experience.
- Skills and knowledge must be commensurate with the required experience and analyst level.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and experience working with data sets are required.
- Experience with compensation technology platforms or HRIS data is preferred.
Benefits:
Hired employees will receive great benefits along with an extremely competitive compensation package. Benefits include Health, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, Holidays, Personal Time Off and 401K & IRA and more.
Pay: $75,000.00 - $90,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
Fives Group is seeking a Compensation Analyst
About Fives Group:
Fives Group, headquartered in Paris, France, is an industrial engineering group founded in 1812 that designs and supplies machines, process equipment and production lines for the world's largest industrial groups including the aluminum, steel, tube and pipe, glass, automotive, aerospace, logistics, cement and energy sectors. Fives has achieved sales of over $2.5 billion with a team of over 9000 employees and a network of over 100 operational units in over 25 countries.
Overview:
The Compensation Analyst supports compensation and employee rewards programs through accurate data preparation, routine analysis, market pricing, program administration, reporting, and coordination with HR, Finance, Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Payroll, business leaders, and external vendors. The role completes recurring processes, research routine issues, maintains documentation, and prepares summaries and materials for review by the Total Rewards team
Responsibilities:
Market Pricing and Job Evaluation Support
- Completes assigned market-pricing and job-evaluation activities using approved survey sources, matching guidelines, and established procedures.
- Reviews job information, research potential benchmarks, documents proposed matches and assumptions, and submits work for review.
- Prepares comparison files, summaries, and supporting documentation for benchmark and pay-structure maintenance.
- Gathers requirements and relevant data for routine compensation requests and escalates incomplete or unusual requests.
Compensation and Rewards Program Administration
- Supports recurring compensation and employee rewards activities, including annual salary administration, recognition and referral awards, survey participation, and related communications.
- Coordinates assigned data exchanges, eligibility checks, invoices, purchase orders, reconciliations, testing, and issue tracking with internal partners and external vendors.
- Updates process calendars, documentation, controls, and status trackers and follows up on deadlines, approvals, exceptions, and open items.
- Research routine data or process issues, documents findings, make corrections within established procedures, and escalate unresolved items.
Data Analysis, Reporting, and Documentation
- Performs standard range-positioning, geographic-differential, pay-equity, compression, and scenario analyses using established templates and methods.
- Reconciles information across data sources, checks calculations, research variances, and documents corrections or open questions.
- Updates compensation survey data, benchmarking applications, HRIS files, compensation platforms, routine reports, and supporting records.
- Prepares routine reports, summaries, presentation materials, and supporting detail using approved templates.
Compliance and Team Support
- Supports wage-and-hour reviews, FLSA documentation, reporting requirements, audits, and confidential record handling.
- Updates compensation tools, templates, procedures, training materials, and job description records.
- Responds to routine questions about compensation processes and program guidelines and refers exceptions or policy questions to the appropriate team member.
- Supports assigned compensation and cross-functional HR projects and uses approved digital tools responsibly
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in human resources, business administration, finance, analytics, or related discipline preferred.
- 3-5 years of compensation, human resources, finance, or data-analysis experience preferred, including exposure to market pricing, job evaluation, salary surveys, or program administration.
- Foundational knowledge of compensation principles, including market pricing, job evaluation, salary structures, pay equity, geographic differentials, and wage-and-hour requirements.
- Ability to review job information, research benchmark options, follow established matching guidelines, and document work for review.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, including formulas, lookups, pivot tables, data validation, reconciliation, and organization of moderately large data sets.
- Ability to learn and use compensation systems, HRIS data, reporting tools, workflow testing, and vendor-supported applications.
- Ability to follow documented processes, manage recurring deadlines, maintain accurate records, and complete assigned work with guidance.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to check data, calculations, and documents for accuracy and completeness.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, including preparation of routine reports, summaries, and presentation materials.
- Ability to explain routine methods and results, respond to standard questions, and escalate exceptions appropriately.
- Organizational, problem-solving, and follow-through skills, with sound judgment in handling confidential employee and pay information.
- Willingness to learn compensation practices, systems, tools, and processes through training, feedback, and experience.
- Skills and knowledge must be commensurate with the required experience and analyst level.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and experience working with data sets are required.
- Experience with compensation technology platforms or HRIS data is preferred.
Benefits:
Hired employees will receive great benefits along with an extremely competitive compensation package. Benefits include Health, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, Holidays, Personal Time Off and 401K & IRA and more.
Pay: $75,000.00 - $90,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
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Who's Hiring
- Ability Builders Consulting92
- ENFRA4
- AHOLD Delhaize4
- CDW3
- Comcast3
Top Industries Hiring
- Healthcare & Medical Services
- Technology & Software
- Education
- Science & Research
- Banking & Financial Services
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in sales compensation analyst jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, mathematics, or a related field
- Proficiency in Excel including advanced formulas, pivot tables, and modeling
- Experience with sales compensation platforms such as Xactly, Varicent, or Anaplan
- Two or more years of experience administering or designing sales incentive plans
- Strong analytical skills with demonstrated ability to audit compensation calculations for accuracy
- Familiarity with Salesforce or other CRM systems for data validation and reporting
Tips for Your Sales Compensation Analyst Job Search
Quantify your incentive plan impact
Recruiters screening sales compensation analyst resumes want numbers tied to outcomes. Cite plan participants affected, payout accuracy rates you maintained, or cycle time reductions you drove. Vague claims about 'managing compensation' get filtered out before a human reads your resume.
List your comp tools by name
Sales compensation teams hire for specific platforms. Name every tool you've used, including Xactly, Varicent, Anaplan, SAP Commissions, CaptivateIQ, or Salesforce CRM. Hiring managers search resumes for these exact terms, and omitting them will cost you interviews even when your experience is strong.
Target roles by plan complexity
Job postings for sales compensation analysts vary widely, from simple quota-and-rate plans to multi-tier overlay and channel structures. Match your application to the complexity level you've actually supported. Overstating experience on tiered or global plans is easy to expose in a technical screen.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists sales compensation analyst openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare a plan design walkthrough
Interviewers at mid-size and enterprise companies routinely ask you to walk through a compensation plan you've built or improved. Practice explaining your design choices, how you balanced pay mix, and how you handled exceptions or disputes, so you can answer fluently without referencing notes.
Negotiate using plan audit findings
When discussing your value in an offer conversation, reference a concrete finding from a plan audit or dispute resolution you handled, such as uncovering a systematic calculation error or realigning a quota to market. That specificity positions you as someone who catches problems, not just processes data.
Sales Compensation Analyst Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most sales compensation analysts?
The companies hiring the most sales compensation analysts right now include Ability Builders Consulting, ENFRA, and AHOLD Delhaize, with the largest share of openings in Texas, Indiana, and Florida, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Technology, financial services, and pharmaceutical companies tend to post the highest volume of these roles year-round.
How many sales compensation analyst jobs are remote?
About 83% of sales compensation analyst openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the data-heavy and systems-based nature of the work. Roles focused on plan administration, reporting, and commission calculations tend to be the most remote-friendly, while positions involving close collaboration with sales leadership or HR business partners are more likely to require in-office presence.
How do you become a sales compensation analyst?
Start with a bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or a quantitative business field, then build hands-on experience in financial analysis, sales operations, or HR compensation. Learn at least one dedicated sales compensation platform and become proficient in Excel modeling. Moving into an analyst role is most common after one to two years in a related data or operations function, often within a company that already has a comp team you can join.
Can you get a sales compensation analyst job with little experience?
Yes, entry-level and associate-level sales compensation analyst roles exist and typically ask for relevant coursework or an internship rather than years of direct experience. Demonstrating Excel proficiency, an understanding of commission mechanics, and exposure to CRM or financial systems through academic or freelance projects can substitute for professional experience in many early-career postings. Targeting smaller companies or contract roles is a practical way to build the hands-on history larger employers require.
What does the sales compensation analyst interview process look like?
The process usually starts with a recruiter screen focused on your background and tool experience, followed by a hiring manager conversation about plan types you've worked with and how you handle disputes or calculation errors. Many companies include a technical exercise where you build or audit a compensation model in Excel or a comp platform. Final rounds often involve a panel with sales operations, finance, or HR stakeholders who assess how you communicate plan logic to non-technical audiences.
Where can I find and apply to sales compensation analyst jobs?
You can find and apply to sales compensation analyst jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the listings to find roles that match your experience level, industry, and preferred location or remote setup, then apply directly to each listing that fits.
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