Senior Incentive Compensation Governance Analyst
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Senior Analyst supporting the governance of incentive compensation programs at Stewart. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to maintain compliance and audit readiness in compensation frameworks.
Responsibilities:
- 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.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree required, concentration in HR, Business, Finance, or a related field preferred
- 5–7+ years of progressive compensation experience, with meaningful exposure to incentive plan governance, documentation, and program management
- Compensation (Variable/Incentive Pay)
- Compensation Plan Design & Administration
- Governance Risk & Compliance
- Business Process Documentation
- HR Project Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Data Analysis & Reporting
Benefits:
- a variety of health and wellness insurance options and programs
- paid time off
- 401(k) with company match
- employee stock purchase program
- employee discounts
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