Senior Incentive Compensation Governance Analyst

Stewart Title • Houston, TX

5d

About The Position

We are looking for a structured, detail-oriented, and collaborative professional with a passion for continuous improvement to join our mission to transform compensation. In this role, you'll support how our incentive plans are documented, governed, and delivered, serving as the critical bridge between our Compensation Business Partners and the Incentive Calculation Team to ensure every plan design is translated into scalable, tech-enabled, and audit-ready frameworks. If you thrive on creating clarity in complexity and love working shoulder-to-shoulder with partners across the Compensation team, HR, Finance, Legal, HRIS, and the business to solve complex problems, you'll have a direct impact on how incentives are managed across the company.

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

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.

Benefits

• variety of health and wellness insurance options and programs
• paid time off
• 401(k) with company match
• employee stock purchase program
• employee discounts

What This Job Offers

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