Serve as a trusted compensation expert responsible for analyzing market trends, evaluating global and off-shore pay practices, and maintaining accurate compensation data. Provide high‑quality reporting and insights that support strategic planning, workforce decisions, and the effective administration of the Company’s compensation programs worldwide.
RESPONSIBILITIES/DUTIES
- Partner with HR and business leaders on pay strategy, performance outcomes, and talent decisions.
- Produce clear and accurate analysis that informs executive decision-making on market positioning, internal equity, and pay outcomes across regions.
- Evaluate market data and compensation trends and make recommendations for new hire salaries, promotional increases and market adjustments for both onshore and offshore roles.
- Facilitate annual salary planning exercise, including budget processes, modeling and development of offshore rates and salary bands.
- Ensure planning software is accurately configured and up to date.
- Facilitate the end-to-end process for annual bonus administration, including collecting and validating bonus data, coordinating payroll processing, and conducting final approval files.
- Play a key role in the design, maintenance, and application of job architecture and compensation structures, including role evaluations and market assessments.
Stock Plan Administration & Executive Compensation
- Manage relationship and data integration with third party stock plan vendor
- Responsible for administration of all equity plan awards including grants, vesting, payroll reporting, and Form 4s.
- Participate in annual equity award planning process, including development of performance award criteria, preparing modeling for Compensation Committee meetings, and drafting grant agreements.
- Support preparation of executive compensation disclosures for the annual proxy statement, including the Compensation Discussion & Analysis.
- Coordinate data collection for external auditors and legal reviewers, ensuring timely responses and documentation to support the proxy drafting and filing process.
REQUIREMENTS/QUALIFICATIONS
Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Finance, Business or related field
- 5+ years of compensation experience, inclusive of 1+ years of equity plan administration
- Working knowledge of compensation concepts, laws, and regulations
- Excellent analytical skills and strong attention to detail and accuracy
- Advanced level of proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and compensation tools (e.g., Workday, Payfactors)
- Ability to communicate complex data clearly
- Flexibility, creativity, sensitivity, excellent communication skills, and the ability to collaborate with managers and HR team members
Preferred
- Experience working within a global organization
- Experience within Oil & Gas, particularly drilling or offshore operations
- Experience with executive compensation, international compensation, and/or stock plan administration
- Experience working for a public company with reporting and compliance requirements
Working Conditions
- Work is performed in an office environment