EY Senior Compensation Manager - People Advisory Services Rewards 

Canada, Ontario, Toronto 

308432705

Your key responsibilities

• Responsible for leading projects, interacting directly with clients, managing and directing analytical support in the delivery of job evaluation, pay equity, compensation and total rewards engagements
• Developing meaningful insights and conclusions related to the review, designing and implementing of workforce and executive compensation, federal and provincial pay equity compliance and total rewards plans
• Actively participating in business development, market activities through proposal development, responding to RFPs, development of whitepapers and presentations
• Design and deliver training sessions and workshops for HR teams and management on job evaluation methodologies, pay equity principles, and best practices in compensation management.
• Lead efforts to ensure compliance with federal and provincial pay equity legislation by conducting thorough assessments, facilitating committee meetings, and managing job information collection strategies
• Conducting research and analysis to better understand organizational issues and strategies, as well as industry/market trends relating to areas including compensation, pay equity, job evaluation, total rewards, attraction/retention of talent, organization strategy and goals etc.
• Providing meaningful and tailored insights based on a combination of understanding an organization’s internal talent and compensation needs, along with external market practices and applicable legislation
• Conducting external market reviews and assessments to help organizations better understand their compensation and total rewards competitiveness relative to their peers
• Designing and implementing workforce and executive compensation and total rewards strategies and structures, as well as incentive plans that align to an organization’s pay-for-performance environment
• Designing and implementing job evaluation systems and providing job description writing and evaluation support
• Conducting pay equity assessments and analysis (Federal and Provincial) to support an organization’s pay equity compliance strategy
• Conducting total rewards assessments and analysis to support organizations in identifying potential changes to elements of their total rewards package
• Participating in M&A and post-harmonization compensation and total rewards engagements
• Preparing client reports and presentations, including recommendations presented to senior management, HR leaders, boards of directors, and executives
• Managing client relationships and acting as the main point-of-contact on compensation and total rewards projects
• Leading and providing guidance to a team of analysts in the completion of multiple compensation and total rewards projects
• Participating in team brainstorming sessions to develop client recommendations

Skills and attributes for success

• The ability to work independently in a fast-paced, dynamic team-oriented environment
• Ability to be flexible and adapt to work under changing client needs and tight timelines
• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills; with the ability to work on multiple projects at once
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

This role requires

• A bachelor's degree majoring in Business, Economics, Finance, mathematics, statistics, or HR
• Minimum 8-10 years of compensation and/or relevant work experience (consulting experience preferred)
• Experience with developing job evaluation plans and activities related to compliance with pay equity legislation
• Significant project management experience, leading multiple projects and managing multiple timelines, with the ability to lead a team to achieve project goals and deliverables
• Strong technical, critical thinking, and analytical skills (both qualitative and quantitative) with the ability to apply these skills to a new environment and new projects
• Strong knowledge of advanced Microsoft Excel formulas/functions and ability to develop inter-connected analysis files and worksheets
• Experience in conducting dataanalysis, working with large and complex data sets, and developing presentations and reports in Microsoft PowerPoint