Compensation Manager

**Role Summary**

Are you naturally inquisitive with strong mathematical and Excel skills? We need you Join Sophos as a valuable member of our Total Rewards team. Success means being agile with detailed financial analysis and a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail. In this role you will partner with HR Business Partners, HR Systems & Operations as well as the business

**What You Will Do**

Actively contribute to the design, analysis, execution, and compliance of compensation programs globally. Focus on the ongoing strategic development of competitive base salary, recognition, and variable pay programs and policies globally across varied markets.
- Act as a business advisor, collaborating with HR business partners and regional HR teams to provide compensation solutions, expertise, and support on the full spectrum of base salary programs and policies, ensuring alignment with strategic business and operational objectives.
- Perform broad analysis to monitor key performance indicators, highlighting trends and analyzing effectiveness of compensation programs.
- Identify and leverage industry trends and best practices to ensure compensation programs, policies, and processes are current, effective, and meet business goals.
- Play a key role in the annual compensation planning process.
- Work with HR business partners and local HR team to ensure compliance with compensation programs and practices with legislative requirements globally in the areas of base salary, overtime, workweek, special allowances, bonus programs, and other statutory provisions.
- Prepare and analyze metrics and other reporting processes to monitor internal practices and track and report out on trends.
- Key contributor to significant global compensation projects including survey benchmarking, global salary structure design and implementation.
- Provide ad hoc analytical compensation support and job assessments, market pricing analysis as needed, leading market pricing data collection and analysis efforts.
- Conduct job evaluations, job leveling, and provide salary recommendations ensuring internal equity and market alignment of total compensation
- Build and maintain job family structures and details, including job code creation and cleanup and data requests from clients
- Document business processes to optimize the effectiveness of the Total Rewards team

**What You Will Bring**
- Related experience in high tech and/or software industry
- High proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Exceptional communication skills with the ability to break down complex concepts and clearly explain them to people at all levels.
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively in a team environment
- Strong organizational and time management skills
- Ability to work independently
- Advanced skills in MS Office, including PowerPoint and Excel.
- Relentless focus on quality and accuracy.

**What’s Great About Sophos?**
- Our people are what makes Sophos special - we demonstrate shared vision, talent, innovation, and creativity, all of which are accompanied by a great sense of fun and team spirit
- Employee-led diversity and inclusion groups that build community within Sophos and provide internal education and advocacy (e.g., Sophos Women in Tech group to improve gender parity, encourage gender-balanced leadership, and support career progression at Sophos)
- Sophos Environment Network and employee challenges to contribute to sustainability and reduce our environmental footprint
- Annual commitment to charity and fundraising across our global sites and volunteer days for employees to give back to local communities
- Global trivia competitions to keep our minds sharp
- Global Mental Health days off work for all Sophos to help employees relax and recharge
- Monthly employee wellbeing webinars and training to support employee health and wellbeing
- Employee rewards and thanks, such as our free annual subscription to Calm

**Our Commitment To You**

We’re proud of the diverse and inclusive environment we have at Sophos, and we’re committed to ensuring equality of opportunity. We believe that diversity, combined with excellence, builds a better Sophos, so we encourage applicants that can contribute to the diversity of our team. All applicants will be treated in a fair and equal manner and in accordance with the law regardless of gender, sex, gender reassignment, marital status, race, religion or belief, color, age, military veteran status, disability, pregnancy, maternity or sexual orientation. We want to give you every opportunity to show us your best self, so if there are any adjustments we could make to the recruitment and selection process to support you, please let us know.

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