Compensation Analyst

At Dimensional, we want to change the way the world thinks about investing. As a leading global investment firm, we offer systematic, value-added investment solutions based on robust science and thoughtful implementation. Our global team includes hundreds of passionate people with diverse experiences, education, strengths, and talents. Every employee plays a role in delivering these experiences, and we know we can achieve the most when we work as a team to endeavor to help improve investors’ lives.

Dimensional's Human Resources department drives organizational success by recruiting and cultivating a high-performing, highly engaged workforce. HR serves as a strategic commercial partner across all departments to drive business results. We are seeking a proactive, self-driven professional to join our team. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a dynamic environment, takes initiative, and is motivated to improve systems, tools, and workflows while supporting a growing compensation team. This newly created role will focus on compensation administration, playing a pivotal role in administering and executing core compensation cycles, including, but not limited to, sales incentives, corporate bonus admin, long-term incentive grants and vesting, and merit administration. The ideal candidate will be data-driven, intellectually curious, and a self-starter who is passionate about Total Rewards and making an impact. This is an exciting opportunity to build your Rewards expertise and work on unique and varied compensation projects within a growing function.

Key Responsibilities:

Administration:

• Supports the Compensation Infrastructure team and plays a vital role in administering and executing the firm’s compensation cycles and events.

• Maintains all compensation-related timelines and activities, including the coordination and scheduling of key Compensation Committee meetings and preparation events.

• Upkeeps documents and templates, like communication packets and mail merge files that support the administration of cyclical compensation events.

• Serves as Equity Administrator, partnering closely with external vendors and internal stakeholders (Finance, Legal) to ensure system integrity, data accuracy, and timely processing of equity grants, vesting events, dividend payrolls, and miscellaneous reporting.

• Triages and manages incoming requests via AskHR ticketing system, ensuring timely resolution or proper escalation to relevant compensation team members.

• Maintains and updates compensation plan documentation (like the Sales Incentive Plan) to ensure accuracy, clarity, and compliance.

• Oversees ongoing edits of both employee-ready knowledge base articles as well as internal process documentation to support team efficiency and consistency.

• Supports the building out of compensation team sourcebook, creating standard operating procedures in a centralized format.

• May be asked to work on other administrative tasks and/or projects.

Compensation Analysis:

• Supports the development and implementation of competitive compensation reporting tailored to Dimensional’s organizational needs.

• Monitors industry trends and regulatory changes to ensure compensation practices remain compliant and competitive.

Compliance & Reporting:

• Ensures adherence to all relevant regulatory requirements and other industry-specific guidelines.

• May support pay equity analyses and compliance with internal governance and external reporting standards.

Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree strongly preferred.

• Experience: 2-4 years of experience in HR, Finance/Accounting, Business Operations, Analytics, or related field (prior compensation experience not required).

• Curious and eager to learn, and comfortable operating with ambiguity while helping to establish and improve new processes.

• Sound judgement with ability to resolve issues independently or escalate appropriately; exercises discretion and maintains confidentiality when handling sensitive compensation information.

• Willing to handle detailed, process-driven work.

• Proficiency in Microsoft 365 Productivity Suite products or similar tools (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, etc.).

• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills with attention to detail; confident working in Excel with large data sets.

• Excellent communication skills, with focus on ability to document processes clearly and maintain knowledge resources.

Preferred Skills:

• Prior compensation experience with knowledge of global compensation practices a plus.

• Prior expierence using Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS), like Workday.

• Strong project management and stakeholder management skills.

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