Senior Incentive Compensation Governance Analyst

At Stewart, we know that success begins with great people. As a Stewart employee, you’ll be joining a company that was named a 2024-2025 Best Company to Work For by U.S. News & World Report, and a 2025 Top Workplace by USA Today. We are committed to helping you own, develop, and nurture your career. We invest in your career journey because we understand that as you grow, so does our company. And our priority is smart growth – by attaining the best people, investing in tools and resources that enable success, and creating a better home for all.

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We are looking for a structured, detail-oriented, and collaborative professional with a passion for continuous improvement to join our mission to transform compensation. In this role, you'll support how our incentive plans are documented, governed, and delivered, serving as the critical bridge between our Compensation Business Partners and the Incentive Calculation Team to ensure every plan design is translated into scalable, tech-enabled, and audit-ready frameworks.

If you thrive on creating clarity in complexity and love working shoulder-to-shoulder with partners across the Compensation team, HR, Finance, Legal, HRIS, and the business to solve complex problems, you'll have a direct impact on how incentives are managed across the company.

Job Description

• Support the design and maintenance of a consistent governance framework for variable compensation programs, ensuring controls are clearly defined, documented, and consistently applied.

• Translate compensation design decisions into clear, structured deliverables such as plan summaries, eligibility matrices, decision logs, and governance reference materials, ensuring alignment between design intent and operational execution.

• Serve as a key contact for audit and compliance activities, coordinating requests, preparing documentation, and ensuring programs remain audit-ready.

• Manage the intake, documentation, and governance workflow for compensation exceptions and off‑cycle requests, including deviations from established program menus; ensure exceptions are properly documented, reviewed, approved, and routed with clear accountability for plan design, calculation, and submission.

• Maintain end-to-end plan documentation as the system of record for plan details, governance decisions, design updates, and approvals, ensuring consistency in structure, terminology, and version control.

• Partner with Incentive Calculation Teams and Incentive Compensation Partners to ensure plan documentation is executable, aligned to calculation requirements, and reflective of approved design intent.

• Support program management for incentive initiatives by tracking timelines, milestones, and deliverables to ensure execution discipline across stakeholders.

• Identify, document, and escalate risks related to timelines, compliance, or governance standards to appropriate stakeholders for resolution.

• Act as a cross-functional coordination point between HR, Finance, Legal, and HRIS to ensure consistent application of governance standards and plan rules.

• Provide guidance and communication to stakeholders on governance processes, documentation requirements, and exception procedures to support alignment and execution.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree required, concentration in HR, Business, Finance, or a related field preferred.

Experience

• 5–7+ years of progressive compensation experience, with meaningful exposure to incentive plan governance, documentation, and program management.

Skills

Compensation (Variable/Incentive Pay); Compensation Plan Design & Administration; Governance Risk & Compliance; Business Process Documentation; HR Project Management; Stakeholder Management ; Data Analysis & Reporting

Equal Employment Opportunity Employer

Stewart is committed to ensuring that its online application process provides an equal employment opportunity to all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. If you have a disability and need assistance or an accommodation in the application process, please contact us by email at careers@stewart.com.

Benefits

Stewart offers eligible employees a competitive benefits package that includes, but is not limited to a variety of health and wellness insurance options and programs, paid time off, 401(k) with company match, employee stock purchase program, and employee discounts.