Compensation Analyst

Alera Group • Chicago, IL

8d • Hybrid

About The Position

Alera Group is one of the nation’s leading independent insurance and financial services firms, combining national resources with local expertise across Employee Benefits, Property & Casualty Insurance, Retirement Plan Services, Wealth Services, and Human Capital Solutions. This opportunity may be right for you if you are comfortable and experienced pricing jobs using multiple sources of market benchmarking data, an engaging communicator who builds strong partnerships with managers and HR team members, excited about creating and implementing structure that enhances the colleague experience, motivated by using data to tell a story and inform decisions, flexible and able to adopt and champion organizational change, and able to translate goals into action. As a Compensation Analyst, you’ll help support and evolve Alera Group’s enterprise compensation programs. You’ll work across job pricing, benchmarking, job architecture, salary surveys, compensation analytics, and Workday while partnering with HR and business leaders across the organization.

Requirements

• 2+ years of hands-on compensation experience, including job pricing and market benchmarking.
• Highly proficient in Excel and comfortable working with large sets of compensation data.
• Can analyze data and explain what it means to HR and business partners.
• Detail-oriented, organized, and comfortable managing multiple priorities.
• A bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, Finance, or a related field is required.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Workday Compensation, job architecture/career pathing, or CCP certification is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Price and benchmark jobs using multiple market data sources and internal equity analysis.
• Support job architecture, leveling, job families, and career paths.
• Manage salary survey submissions and analyze market results.
• Build compensation reporting and analytics that turn data into actionable insights.
• Support annual compensation processes, salary structures, and Workday Compensation activities.
• Contribute to compensation projects tied to Alera Group’s continued transformation and growth.

Benefits

• medical, dental and vision coverage
• life and disability insurance
• 401(k)
• paid time off
• professional development opportunities

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level