Total Rewards Analyst

Overview:

This role is an ideal launchpad into HR with exposure and experience in compensation, benefits, people analytics and enhancing employee experience.

Responsibilities:

• Provide day-to-day benefits administration including responding to employee inquiries related to all benefit plans
• Manage the relationship with vendors to maximize the outcomes and ensure that employee benefit programs deliver the highest of quality aligned with Kirby’s values.
• Partner with Finance, HR, Payroll and other departments to address and ensure accurate and timely benefit-related payroll deductions and vendor payments are properly recorded
• Regularly monitor compliance with federal regulatory requirements and address issues as necessary.
• Audit interface files between HRIS/Payroll system, benefit system and vendor partners.
• Maintain and update plan documents, summary plan descriptions and contracts for benefit plans.
• Conduct compensation market research and provide compensation recommendations for new hires and internal job changes
• Administer compensation cycles, including annual increases, bonus planning, and long-term equity planning.
• Prepare and maintain job descriptions, ensuring descriptions accurately reflect the work being performed by incumbents. Assesses respective job duties to determine appropriate classification and salary range.
• Gather data from market-based compensation surveys; conducts data analysis to support decision making on compensation decisions.
• Prepare and interpret data and cost analyses and recommend changes or updates to the company’s existing processes or policies.
• Recommend process improvements and automation, including implementation of AI and technology-enable solutions to increase efficiencies and employee experience.

Qualifications:

Capabilities, Behaviors, Experience

Capabilities:

• Strong analytical skills and comfort working with data (Excel proficiency required; experience with data tools or systems a plus)
• Strong attention to detail with a mindset for continuous improvement
• Ability to engage with and effectively communicate with all levels of stakeholders from front line employees through executive level
• Strong ability to manage projects across a variety of groups with the ability to simplify complex projects into easily understood initiatives.

Behaviors:

• Team-oriented and strong interpersonal skills
• Proactive and willing to take initiative
• Curious and inquisitive mindset
• Honest, compassionate and direct in communications

Experience:

• One to five years of analyst type role, preferably in HR, compensation and/or benefits
• Experience in an industrial sector company a plus encompassing a stakeholder group of front-line operations to executive management preferred
• Compensation or Benefits related certification beneficial

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources or business administration, or equivalent area

Working Conditions: Standard Office Criteria