Senior Compensation Associate

Join a team that values your ambition and empowers your growth

At Corient, we help high- and ultra-high-net-worth individuals and families to enjoy a full life, while enabling them to preserve their wealth for future generations, and provide for the people, causes and communities they care about. We focus on exceeding expectations, simplifying lives, and establishing legacies that last for generations. We are always looking for talented and motivated individuals to join our team. If you want to work for a company that values your contributions and supports your growth, we would like to meet you.

Key Responsibilities

• Data Analysis: Build, maintain, and audit complex models to evaluate the internal equity and external competitiveness of global compensation programs and build / maintain sustainable models that can be leveraged over a period of time.  The ability to create sustainable modeling architecture through automation would be extremely valuable in this role.  
• Workday Optimization: Leverage Workday's advanced compensation module to manage salary structures, grade profiles, eligibility rules, and merit cycles.  In addition, leveraging the full suite of Workday's automation capabilities to create sustainable compensation modeling / insights architecture.
• Market Benchmarking: Own the global participation in and analysis of financial services market surveys to identify talent trends and shifting salary movements.  Build automated / self-service reports for HR Business Partners, Finance and other stakeholders.
• Plan Design: Partner with leadership to draft, refine, and model structures for international base salaries, variable cash incentives, and deferred equity awards.
• Stakeholder Consultation: Serve as the subject matter expert to HRBPs, providing clear, data-backed guidance as needed, included liaising with Finance to ensure a robust bonus accrual process.
• Project Management: Drive the execution of time-sensitive global compensation cycles, including annual year end reviews, from initial budgeting to final implementation.
• Communication: Translate intricate financial, regulatory, and equity concepts into straightforward, universal narratives for non-technical stakeholders and executive teams.
• Governance: Maintain high-quality documentation of global reward structures and ensure strict compliance with regional labor laws and financial services remuneration regulations.

Required Qualifications

• Experience: Minimum of 5 to 8 years of dedicated, progressive experience in corporate compensation analysis, ideally within the financial services sector.
• System Expertise: Proven hands-on experience utilizing Workday (specifically Workday Compensation) to manage large-scale global salary and incentive programs.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in finance, Mathematics, Economics, or a highly quantitative field.
• Technical Skills: Advanced mastery of Microsoft Excel (e.g., index/match, arrays, complex nested formulas, financial modeling).
• Compensation Depth: Advanced knowledge of global cash structures, bonus pools, and complex equity award mechanics (such as vesting schedules, performance metrics, etc.).
• Survey Expertise: Extensive hands-on experience utilizing financial services market survey databases (e.g., McLagan, Mercer, Willis Towers Watson).

Core Competencies

• Comfort with Ambiguity: Ability to operate effectively and build structured solutions out of loose, shifting business requirements across different regions.
• Self-Starter Mindset: High intrinsic motivation to initiate tasks, solve problems proactively, and independently manage time-sensitive projects.
• Business Acumen: Strong capacity to view compensation through a financial and operational lens, aligning reward plans directly with business profitability and risk management.

This position description is intended to provide a general overview of the expectations and responsibilities of this position and may not include all tasks that may be assigned. As the nature of business demands change, so may the functions of this position. Additional duties and responsibilities may be assigned with or without notice. 

Pay Information

This position is exempt and is paid according to the laws of the State of New York. The pay range for this position is $140,000 - $170,000 USD per year. We are required to provide a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. This range takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to experience, skills, knowledge, abilities, education, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs. It is not typical for an individual to be offered a salary at or near the top of the range for a position. Salary offers are determined based on final candidate qualifications and experience.

Physical Requirements

• This position requires the physical capabilities to work in an office environment, which may include prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer. Corient seeks to make reasonable accommodations that enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential duties when possible.
• This position may require the ability to lift up to 15 pounds.
• This position is required to work onsite 4 days per week.

U.S. Eligibility Requirements

• Must be 18 years of age or older.
• Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States. For U.S. employment opportunities, Corient hires U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Exceptions to these requirements will be determined based on shortage of qualified candidates with a particular skill. Corient will require proof of work authorization.
• Corient participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, this employer is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you, including terminating your employment. Employers can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.
• Must be willing to execute Corient’s Employee Agreement or Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure Agreement, which require, among other things, post-employment obligations relating to non-solicitation, confidentiality, and non-disclosure.

What You Can Expect from Us

Our dedication to the Employee Experience at Corient is aimed at supporting, empowering, and inspiring our talented team through:

• 401(k) Plan with Employer Matching 
• Four Medical Plan options that is generously subsidized by Corient
• Employer paid Dental, Vision & Life and AD&D Insurance 
• Employer paid Short-term & Long-term Disability  
• Paid Maternity & Parental Leave 
• Flexible Spending Accounts & Health Savings Accounts
• Dependent Care FSA 
• Commuter & Transit FSA 
• Corporate Discount Program - Perkspot 
• Training Reimbursement  
• Paid Professional Designations  
• Giving back to the community - Volunteer days

Corient is the world’s largest multi-family office and non-bank wealth manager focused on serving ultra-high- and high-net-worth clients. As the industry’s only global professional services partnership, we combine the personal service and objectivity of a boutique with the scale and resources of a global institution. Our partnership model fosters collaboration over competition, bringing together the collective expertise of Corient to each relationship to deliver a transparent, client-first experience. As a fully integrated global firm, we deliver comprehensive solutions across investment management, wealth strategy and family office services to help clients simplify their lives, manage their wealth and establish lasting legacies.

Full participation of all employees in a safe, healthy and respectful environment is key to individual and company success. We are committed to fully utilizing the abilities of all our employees and expect each of our employees to honor this commitment in their daily responsibilities.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All candidates will be recruited and, if applicable, selected and employed without regard to sex, race, religion, marital status, veteran status, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, color, creed, ancestry, disability, genetic information or any other basis prohibited by law.

This position description is intended to provide a general overview of the expectations and responsibilities of this position and may not include all tasks that may be assigned. As the nature of business demands change, so may the functions of this position. Additional duties and responsibilities may be assigned with or without notice.

Corient refers to the separate but affiliated entities under common control of Corient Holdings Inc. Client assets include all assets of Corient Holdings Inc., including majority- and minority-owned businesses.