Strong fit for candidates with global compensation and benefits experience who collaborate across HR, Payroll, and Finance teams to optimize rewards programs.
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Original posting from Emburse via Lever
Who We Are:
At Emburse, you’ll not just imagine the future – you’ll build it. As a leader in expense intelligence, we are creating a future where technology drives business value and inspires extraordinary results. Our AI-powered platform helps organizations modernize financial operations, increase visibility, and optimize spend across the enterprise.
What you will do ::
The Senior Total Rewards Analyst plays a critical role in the design, administration, execution, and continuous improvement of Emburse’s global total rewards programs. Supporting both compensation and benefits, this role acts as an analytical and operational subject matter expert, ensuring our programs remain market-competitive, cost-effective, compliant, and aligned with company strategic objectives.
The Senior Total Rewards Analyst collaborates closely with internal stakeholders (HR, Payroll, Finance, Legal) and external partners (brokers, carriers, vendors) to deliver exceptional customer service, streamline operational processes, and provide data-driven insights across global health, welfare, retirement, leaves, base pay, variable compensation, and job evaluation frameworks.
Essential Functions
- Balanced Compensation & Benefits Administration: Serve as a subject matter expert delivering day-to-day administration, analytical modeling, and operational oversight for both global compensation and benefits programs. Draft and distribute clear communications to employees, managers, and HR Partners.
- Benefits Administration & Renewals: Manage global health, welfare, leave of absence, and retirement plan administration. Assist in open enrollment execution, plan renewals, vendor evaluation, and system programming across regions. May serve as the lead for annual enrollment.
- Compensation Program Management: Support the execution of compensation cycles (annual pay reviews, merit, bonus, equity), maintain salary structures, conduct job evaluations/leveling, and lead participation in market salary surveys.
- Analytics & Reporting: Conduct complex data modeling, market research, pay equity analysis, and benefits utilization trends analysis to evaluate competitiveness, identify cost efficiencies, and help drive strategic decision-making.
- Employee Education & Support: Manage escalated inquiries via shared mailboxes, deliver clear total rewards communications, and lead educational initiatives to increase employee engagement and understanding of total rewards offerings.
- Leaves of Absence & Accommodations: Oversee and administer leaves of absence (FMLA, statutory/personal/parental leaves) and related ADA accommodation requests in compliance with applicable laws.
- Global Compliance & Auditing: Drive compliance initiatives across federal, state, and international regulations (e.g., FLSA, ERISA, ACA, Form 5500 filings, non-discrimination testing, statutory reporting, local labor laws).
- Cross-Functional Collaboration & Process Optimization: Partner with Payroll, HR Systems/HRIS, HR Business Partners, and Finance to ensure data integrity, audit system accuracy, automate workflows, and enhance operational efficiency.
- Vendor & Broker Management: Collaborate with global brokers, benefits carriers, and retirement advisors to ensure service level agreements (SLAs) are met, resolve performance issues, and optimize plan design.
- Data Integrity: Ensure the accuracy, completeness, and integrity of total rewards data across HRIS, compensation, benefits, and reporting systems; identify and resolve data-quality issues to support reliable analysis and decision-making.
What we are looking for ::
Education:
Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field.
Experience Required:
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in total rewards, compensation or employee benefits administration (or a combined total rewards model).
- Preferred: Experience administering global benefits programs and compensation programs across multiple countries.
- Certifications Preferred: CEBS, CCP, PHR or SHRM-CP
Why Emburse?
Finance is changing—and at Emburse, we’re leading the way. Our AI-powered solutions help organizations eliminate inefficiencies, gain real-time visibility, and optimize spend—so they can focus on what’s next, not what’s slowing them down.
- A Company with Momentum – We serve 12M+ users across 120 countries, helping businesses modernize
their finance operations.
- A Team That Innovates – Work alongside some of the brightest minds in finance, tech, and AI to solve real-
world challenges.
- A Culture That Empowers – Competitive pay, flexible work, and an inclusive, collaborative environment that
supports your success.
- A Career That Matters – Your work here drives efficiency, innovation, and smarter financial decision-making
for businesses everywhere.
Shape your future & find what’s next at Emburse.
Emburse provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Emburse complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location where the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment.
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