What are the responsibilities and job description for the Associate Director, Compensation Systems Architect position at CSL?
The Opportunity
Reporting to the Director, Global Compensation Operations & Enablement Lead, as the Associate Director, Compensation Systems Architect, you will be the senior technical and analytical subject‑matter expert, responsible for translating compensation operating requirements into scalable system solutions, reliable data, and actionable insights. In this role, you will serve as the hands‑on Workday compensation expert and lead technical execution across the compensation technology ecosystem, including configuration support, integrations, reporting, analytics, and continuous enhancement. Your position will be future‑focused, driving the build and adoption of advanced analytics, automation, and AI‑enabled capabilities that improve accuracy, efficiency, governance, and decision support across Compensation and broader Total Rewards. In partnership with the Global Compensation Operations & Enablement Lead and HR Systems/Technology team, you will support enterprise‑critical cycles (including Year‑End) through system readiness, testing support, issue resolution, and reporting enablement—ensuring solutions are robust, sustainable, and aligned with CSL’s global standards.
This is a hybrid role, which offers a combination of an onsite and remote work schedule.
The Role
CSL Behring is a global biotherapeutics leader driven by our promise to save lives. Focused on serving patients’ needs by using the latest technologies, we discover, develop and deliver innovative therapies for people living with conditions in the immunology, hematology, cardiovascular and metabolic, respiratory, and transplant therapeutic areas. We use three strategic scientific platforms of plasma fractionation, recombinant protein technology, and cell and gene therapy to support continued innovation and continually refine ways in which products can address unmet medical needs and help patients lead full lives.
CSL Behring operates one of the world’s largest plasma collection networks, CSL Plasma. Our parent company, CSL, headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, employs 32,000 people, and delivers its lifesaving therapies to people in more than 100 countries.
To learn more about CSL, CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus and CSL Vifor visit https://www.csl.com/ and CSL Plasma at https://www.cslplasma.com/.
Our Benefits
For more information on CSL benefits visit How CSL Supports Your Well-being | CSL.
You Belong at CSL
At CSL, Inclusion and Belonging is at the core of our mission and who we are. It fuels our innovation day in and day out. By celebrating our differences and creating a culture of curiosity and empathy, we are able to better understand and connect with our patients and donors, foster strong relationships with our stakeholders, and sustain a diverse workforce that will move our company and industry into the future.
To learn more about inclusion and belonging visit https://www.csl.com/careers/inclusion-and-belonging
Equal Opportunity Employer
CSL is an Equal Opportunity Employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please visit https://www.csl.com/accessibility-statement.
Reporting to the Director, Global Compensation Operations & Enablement Lead, as the Associate Director, Compensation Systems Architect, you will be the senior technical and analytical subject‑matter expert, responsible for translating compensation operating requirements into scalable system solutions, reliable data, and actionable insights. In this role, you will serve as the hands‑on Workday compensation expert and lead technical execution across the compensation technology ecosystem, including configuration support, integrations, reporting, analytics, and continuous enhancement. Your position will be future‑focused, driving the build and adoption of advanced analytics, automation, and AI‑enabled capabilities that improve accuracy, efficiency, governance, and decision support across Compensation and broader Total Rewards. In partnership with the Global Compensation Operations & Enablement Lead and HR Systems/Technology team, you will support enterprise‑critical cycles (including Year‑End) through system readiness, testing support, issue resolution, and reporting enablement—ensuring solutions are robust, sustainable, and aligned with CSL’s global standards.
This is a hybrid role, which offers a combination of an onsite and remote work schedule.
The Role
- Serve as the primary Workday Compensation subject matter expert, providing hands‑on leadership for configuration, design recommendations, troubleshooting, and optimization of compensation and related Total Rewards functionality.
- Translate compensation operating needs into system requirements and scalable solutions, partnering with HR Systems/Technology to ensure high‑quality delivery of enhancements, fixes, and future‑state capabilities.
- Lead the technical and analytical execution for the Year‑End rewards/compensation cycle (e.g., salary review and related activities) including test support, configuration support, issue triage, reporting readiness, and post‑cycle stabilization.
- Build and maintain compensation analytics, dashboards, and decision support, ensuring leaders and stakeholders have timely, accurate insights to guide Total Rewards decisions and governance.
- Execute a roadmap of AI-enabled use cases across Total Rewards, including automation, insight generation, and process improvements that enhance accuracy, speed, and user experience.
- Apply data governance best practices to identify root causes of data/system issues, improve data quality and reliability, and strengthen confidence in compensation reporting and administration.
- Support evaluation and optimization of HR/Total Rewards technology investments, providing technical and analytical input on tool capability, value realization, and integration into the Total Rewards operating model
- Partner with the Global Compensation Operations & Enablement Lead to support process optimization and automation by identifying opportunities, designing requirements, and enabling measurable improvements in efficiency and effectiveness.
- Provide ongoing collaboration and technical partnership with Compensation Delivery & Governance, Benefits, Executive Compensation, Performance, HR Operations, Payroll, and Finance to ensure solutions are aligned, adoptable, and operationally sustainable.
- Serve as a key liaison for compensation systems and data topics, communicating complex technical and analytical insights clearly to stakeholders to enable informed decisions and successful change adoption.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Human Resources, Technology, or a related field. Advanced degree preferred.
- 8 years of progressive experience in Total Rewards, Compensation Operations, and/or HR Systems roles.
- Required deep expertise in Workday compensation and incentive administration, data governance, and cross‑functional delivery.
- Demonstrated experience leading global processes, systems, and governance in a complex, matrixed organization.
- Proven ability to lead enterprise‑critical reward cycles (e.g., Year End rewards, incentive administration).
- Strong leadership experience with direct team accountability.
- Strategic thinking with strong execution discipline.
- Enterprise systems and process leadership.
- Risk management and governance mindset.
- Ability to influence across functions and regions without direct authority.
- Clear, confident communicator able to translate complexity into actionable direction.
- Continuous improvement and problem‑solving orientation.
- Office Environment.
- 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.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.
- Domestic and International travel may be required from time to time.
CSL Behring is a global biotherapeutics leader driven by our promise to save lives. Focused on serving patients’ needs by using the latest technologies, we discover, develop and deliver innovative therapies for people living with conditions in the immunology, hematology, cardiovascular and metabolic, respiratory, and transplant therapeutic areas. We use three strategic scientific platforms of plasma fractionation, recombinant protein technology, and cell and gene therapy to support continued innovation and continually refine ways in which products can address unmet medical needs and help patients lead full lives.
CSL Behring operates one of the world’s largest plasma collection networks, CSL Plasma. Our parent company, CSL, headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, employs 32,000 people, and delivers its lifesaving therapies to people in more than 100 countries.
To learn more about CSL, CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus and CSL Vifor visit https://www.csl.com/ and CSL Plasma at https://www.cslplasma.com/.
Our Benefits
For more information on CSL benefits visit How CSL Supports Your Well-being | CSL.
You Belong at CSL
At CSL, Inclusion and Belonging is at the core of our mission and who we are. It fuels our innovation day in and day out. By celebrating our differences and creating a culture of curiosity and empathy, we are able to better understand and connect with our patients and donors, foster strong relationships with our stakeholders, and sustain a diverse workforce that will move our company and industry into the future.
To learn more about inclusion and belonging visit https://www.csl.com/careers/inclusion-and-belonging
Equal Opportunity Employer
CSL is an Equal Opportunity Employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please visit https://www.csl.com/accessibility-statement.