Compensation & Benefits Specialist

• Configure core and advanced compensation structures, including compensation packages, grades, grade profiles, eligibility rules, and custom allowance plans
• Orchestrate global merit and bonus cycles, building focal review process flows, configuring compensation grids, and setting up manager recommendation dashboards
• Design and maintain benefits programs, configuring benefit groups, plan types, health/insurance plans, coverage rules, and beneficiary tracking
• Manage open enrollment events, defining passive events, enrollment calendar matrices, employee validation rules, and electronic sign-off paths
• Govern security and data controls, establishing conditional domain permissions to isolate executive compensation metrics and sensitive healthcare information
• Collaborate with integration and payroll teams to support downstream data transmission to payroll systems or external benefit providers via Cloud Connect for Benefits (CCB)
• Assess semi-annual feature upgrades, leading sandbox verification runs, validating calculation rules, and updating system documentation for new releases

• 4 to 8 years of enterprise rewards technology experience, with 4+ dedicated years actively configuring Workday Compensation or Benefits infrastructure
• Strong technical mastery of the Workday Compensation Matrix, eligibility rule calculation logic, focal launch steps, and benefit program hierarchies
• Deep structural understanding of global total rewards frameworks, variable bonus structures, international healthcare tiers, and corporate equity plans
• Mandatory certification: Workday Certified Advanced Compensation OR Workday Certified Benefits
• Workday Certified Core HCM certification preferred
• Prior consulting experience managing global, multi-currency compensation rollouts involving complex local data residency compliance laws preferred