Help at Home is the leading national provider of in-home personal care services, where our mission is to enable individuals to live with independence and dignity at home. Our team supports 66,000 clients monthly with the help of 53,000 compassionate caregivers across 12 states. We’re looking for people who care about others, who are willing to listen, lean in and make impactful change. Each role at Help at Home can have a positive impact in supporting our caregivers and clients. If you are someone who leads with passion and integrity and are looking to join a rapidly growing, industry leading team, Help at Home may be a good fit for you.

Job Summary:

The Compensation Analyst III will be responsible for supporting the development of new or improving processes for broad-based compensation activities. These activities include job evaluation, market pricing, salary surveys, support with the creation of a new salary structure, merit increases, compensation system maintenance and administration, analytical and reporting support and/or job description development, to support the Compensation department’s service delivery model. Further, the position is actively involved in incentive plan design and administration and supports the integration of newly acquired organizations.

**This is a remote position with minimal travel expectations to the Chicago, IL headquarters for on-site collaboration and department meetings.
As a key member of the team:

• You are flexible and can embrace change.
• You value progress over perfection.
• You care about your work, the team you are on, and the people we are helping.
• You make it a priority to get to know the people around you – build relationships with your colleagues and business partners.
• You say what needs to be said, while considering how it will affect culture and output.
• Hold others to a high standard.

• Works with highly sensitive and confidential information and maintains the confidentiality of the information used during the normal course of business.
• Market prices positions as needed and periodically refines job descriptions. Ensures positions are compliant with FLSA requirements.
• Identifies new surveys to leverage and participates in salary surveys through the collection and reporting of data to third-party survey providers. Reviews salary survey results and provides recommendations on additions/deletions of benchmark jobs in use. Researches other potential salary surveys to enhance the market pricing needs.
• Models financial impact of compensation programs (e.g., merit budgets and incentive plan design). Maintains and updates accrual reports to capture estimated costs based on financials and plan performance.
• Provides counseling to HR and management on pay issues and changes (e.g., promotions, transfers, merit review cycles, etc.).
• Participates in the development of incentive compensation plan designs (e.g., management and branch plans, etc.), assures model validation and alignment with goals, forecast costs, and develops the communication plans, tools to measure attainment against plan, and calculation of potential award amounts.
• Participates in the quarterly and annual processing of incentive payout calculations.
• Participates in the development and maintenance of a new salary structure, titling framework, and market pricing the grades.
• Performs regular audits to ensure all Compensation components are appropriately applied across the company.
• Integrates newly acquired companies into Help at Home.
• Develops pay practices documentation and create/maintains plan documents.
• Supports the Compensation Module of Workday and ongoing updates.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Finance or a related field and at least 5-6 years of compensation experience.
• CCP or related certification is a plus.
• Experience with confidentiality requirements associated with the practice of Human Resources, Compensation and/or Finance.
• Demonstrated experience applying compensation techniques, job evaluation, salary survey practices and methodologies, salary program development, job documentation, and incentive plan design and measurement.
• Experience using Workday is a plus.
• Experience working with EEOC and other compliance requirements.
• Experience applying the principles of the Fair Labor Standards Act and its applicability to the job evaluation process.

Required Skills and Abilities: 

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with customer service approach.
• Must have strong attention to detail; problem solving and troubleshooting skills required.
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Excel (e.g., pivot tables, v-lookups, complex formulas).
• Extensive knowledge of human resource laws, regulations and best practices to make recommendations and apply.
• Knowledge of basic accounting and financial principals and the requirements of collaborating with Finance on relevant compensation activities.

Physical Requirements:

• Remote and office based in downtown Chicago 
• Majority (90%) of work is conducted indoors in air-conditioned or well-ventilated facilities.
• The employee is generally subjected to long periods spent sitting, typing, or looking at a computer screen.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions upon request.

Help At Home is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and welcomes all qualified applicants. Applicants will receive fair and impartial consideration without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic data, or religion or other legally protected status.