Inspire Brands is seeking an Executive Compensation Senior Analyst to play a critical role in designing, analyzing, and administering executive compensation programs for a large, growing multi-brand restaurant company. This role supports the development of competitive, performance-driven, and governance-aligned compensation strategies for senior leadership, ensuring public readiness level scrutiny and regulatory compliance.
This position partners closely with HR leadership, Finance, Legal, and senior executives to deliver data-driven insights, compensation modeling, proxy disclosure support, and executive compensation governance best practices.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Executive Compensation Strategy & Program Design
- Support the design and administration of executive compensation programs, including base salary, short-term incentives, long-term incentives, equity or equity-like awards, and executive benefits
- Conduct market benchmarking
- Develop competitive pay analyses aligned with company growth strategy and public readiness
- Model compensation scenarios, including performance-based outcomes
Governance & Best Practices
- Assist in preparing executive compensation frameworks aligned with leading market and public company best practices
- Support Compensation Committee materials and presentations
- Monitor emerging trends in executive compensation, governance and incentive design
Analytics & Financial Modeling
- Build and maintain executive compensation models tied to financial performance metrics
- Conduct dilution analysis and equity burn rate modeling
- Support equity plan administration and share reserve forecasting
- Analyze pay-for-performance alignment
Governance & Compliance
- Ensure executive compensation programs comply with applicable tax, legal, and regulatory requirements
- Implement strong controls, documentation, and review processes
- Maintain documentation and audit readiness for compensation programs
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Collaborate with Finance during budgeting and forecasting cycles
- Partner with Legal and Finance to prepare compensation disclosures
- Partner with brand leadership to ensure alignment across multiple operating brands
EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS
- 4 Year Degree / Bachelor’s
EXPERIENCE QUALIFICATION
- 4+ years progressive experience in executive compensation, total rewards, or related fields
- Experience in complex, multi-unit, or multi-brand public-company organizations preferred
- Experience supporting Compensation Committees preferred
REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS or ABILITIES
- Advanced Excel and financial modeling expertise
- Experience with equity administration platforms
- Familiarity with proxy disclosure and public company reporting requirements
- Strong analytical and quantitative capabilities
- Ability to interpret financial statements and performance metrics
- High business acumen and understanding of performance-based compensation
- Strong executive presence and ability to work with senior leadership
- Discretion and ability to manage highly confidential information
- Detail-oriented with strong governance mindset
- Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment
Inspire is a multi-brand restaurant company whose portfolio includes more than 33,000 Arby’s, Baskin-Robbins, Buffalo Wild Wings, Dunkin’, Jimmy John’s, and SONIC restaurants worldwide.
We’re made up of some of the world’s most iconic restaurant brands, but we’re much more than just a restaurant company. We’re a team of hundreds of thousands who individually and collectively are changing the way people eat, drink, and gather around the table. We know that food is much more than a staple—it’s an experience. At Inspire, that’s our purpose: to ignite and nourish flavorful experiences.