Senior Compensation Analyst

At Warner Music Group, we’re a global collective of music makers and music lovers, tech innovators and inspired entrepreneurs, game-changing creatives and passionate team members. Here, we turn dreams into stardom and audiences into fans. We are guided by three core values that underpin everything we do across all our diverse businesses:

• Curiosity: We do our best work when we’re immersing ourselves in culture and breaking through barriers. Curiosity is the driving force behind creativity and ingenuity. It fuels innovation, and innovation is the key to our future.
• Collaboration: Making music and bringing it to the world is all about the power of originality amplified by teamwork. A great idea, like a great song, travels globally. We ignite passions and build connections across our diverse community of artists, songwriters, partners, and fans.
• Commitment: We pursue excellence for our team and our talent. Everything in music starts with a leap into the unknown, and we’re committed to keeping the faith, acting with integrity, and delivering on our promises.

We remain committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. We know it fosters a culture where you can truly belong, contribute, and grow. We encourage applications from people of any age, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, religion, ethnicity, disability, veteran status, and any other characteristic or identity.

Consider a career at WMG and get the best of both worlds – an innovative global music company that retains the creative spirit of a nimble independent.

Job Title: Senior Compensation Analyst (Temp)

A little bit about our team:

The Compensation function is responsible for implementing competitive compensation packages to attract and retain top talent across our organization.  The function is responsible for driving the strategic planning, design, development, implementation and communication of programs, and for managing externally competitive, fully integrated, geographically flexible and cost-effective measures for WMG’s compensation programs and initiatives.

Your role:

This is an exciting opportunity to serve as a business confidant and thought partner on all compensation matters and understand the organizational structure that meshes business needs, creativity, and technology together.  You will partner with the Director of Compensation and internal stakeholders to facilitate innovative and modern total rewards operations in alignment with WMG business strategy.

Here you’ll get to:

General Duties

• Assist with bi-quarterly bonus accrual reconciliation and aid in identifying changes in accrual calculations
• Participate in WMG’s Market Data Survey participation process including but limited to population validation in partnership with People Partners, submission, review, and analysis of survey results
• Aid in the review of job descriptions and the provision of market data benchmarking upon request
• Assist in the monitoring regulatory updates and checks such as minimum wage changes, exempt status rulings and salary minimums
• Participate in compensation special projects including but not limited to salary structure review, report preparation, communications and/or presentation decks
• Participate in global compensation projects as needed

Workday

• Support initiatives to audit compensation data in Workday including but not limited to:
  • Bonus and salary data
  • Job profile and grade levels
  • Contractual details:  ensure details are entered accurately into Workday custom panels based on contract documentation
• Partner with People Partners regarding recommendations and corrections to employee data where needed as well as supporting any updates to employee compensation details where needed
• Aid the compensation team in troubleshooting compensation items where functional subject matter expertise is required to solution issues and review enhancement requests, working with the HRIS and third party support teams as needed
• Assist in the testing of changes to Workday configuration in sandbox to validate changes are acceptable for moves to production
• Support in the review of opportunities to enhance Workday capabilities in relation to compensation functionality through the bi-annual Workday update process, supporting functional testing activities to validate changes prior to production moves

Year-end process

• Assist in population verification for bonus and merit eligible employees
• Work with People Partners to resolve inquiries regarding bonus calculations and eligibility
• Support in the preparation of the Workday Annual Merit and Bonus process as it relates to population validation, eligibility, data integrity, system hierarchy, year end approvers, and uploads as needed
• Assist in the distribution of files and report requests where needed
• Respond to territory / business unit queries in relation to the year-end process
• Aid in troubleshooting inquiries regarding employee compensation matters
• Support year-end reporting and analysis requirements of bonus and merit expenditure

About you:

• 2 years’ experience in analysis, design and/or administration of compensation programs
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office and Excel, including working knowledge of pivot tables, VLOOKUPS and logic calculations
• Ability to consolidate and work with large volumes of employee compensation data
• High energy, results-oriented with strong operations skills who can work in an agile environment with attention to detail
• Strong analytical & numerical skills with ability to master new systems quickly
• A consummate team player who is able to build effective professional relationships and has the ability to effectively work with and communicate across multiples levels of the organization
• An established track record of building credibility and trust across the organization, candid communication, high integrity, sound business ethics and judgment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, ability to multitask on multiple projects

We’d love it if you also had: 

• Experience in Workday
• A Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Human Resources, or related field, from an accredited college or university

About us:

As the home to 10K Projects, Asylum, Atlantic Music Group, East West, FFRR, Fueled by Ramen, Nonesuch, Parlophone, Rhino, Roadrunner, Sire, Warner Records, Warner Classics, and several other of the world’s premier recording labels, Warner Music Group champions emerging artists and global superstars alike. And our renowned publishing company, Warner Chappell Music, represents genre-spanning songwriters and producers through a catalog of more than one million copyrights worldwide. Warner Music Group is also home to ADA, which supports the independent community, as well as artist services division WMX. In addition, WMG counts film and television storytelling powerhouse Warner Music Entertainment among its many brands.

Together, we are Warner Music Group: Independent Minds. Major Sound.

Love this job and want to apply?

Click the “Apply” link at the top of the page, or apply directly with your LinkedIn. Applying with LinkedIn will import all of the information you put in your profile, but will still allow you to upload a resume and cover letter.

Don’t be discouraged if you don’t hear from us right away. We’re taking our time to review all resumes, and to find the best people for WMG.

Thanks for your interest in working for WMG.  We love it here, and think you will, too.

Effective October 1st 2023,  this position will require being in the office 4 days a week.  We believe that an in-office presence is critical for talent development, collaboration and building strong relationships.

Salary Range

$51.00 to $59.00 hourly