Job Tilte: Sr HR Reporting Analyst (HCM)
Mandate exp - Incentive Compensation Administration
Hybrid Onsite at Dallas TX location (3days weekly)
C2C or W2
Position Summary
We are seeking an experienced contractor to support the administration, analysis, and modernization of our incentive compensation programs. This role will be responsible for managing ongoing incentive plan operations and payouts while partnering with HR, Compensation, Finance, Payroll, and HR Technology teams to support the migration of incentive compensation processes, data models, and reporting capabilities from a SAS-based environment to Oracle Fusion.
The ideal candidate combines strong data management and processing capabilities with hands-on experience in SAS, Oracle Fusion, and SQL, as well as an ability to understand and apply complex business rules. Experience within incentive compensation or Total Rewards is preferred, but deep expertise is not required.
This role requires a blend of compensation operations, data and process management, and technology skills, with the ability to learn and apply plan-specific eligibility and payout requirements.
Key Responsibilities
Incentive Compensation Administration
- Manage monthly, quarterly, and annual incentive compensation processes.
- Support incentive plan calculations, validations, audits, and payout activities.
- Perform quality assurance and reconciliation activities to ensure payout accuracy.
- Investigate and resolve data, calculation, and process discrepancies.
- Partner with Compensation, Payroll, Finance, and HR teams to ensure seamless execution of incentive programs.
- Maintain documentation, controls, and governance related to incentive compensation administration.
- Support ongoing enhancements to incentive program processes and controls.
Data Management, Validation & Reporting
- Support recurring and ad hoc reporting required for incentive plan administration and business reviews.
- Perform data validation, reconciliation, and quality assurance activities to ensure accurate incentive calculations and payouts.
- Analyze data trends and exceptions to identify issues, risks, and process improvement opportunities.
- Develop and maintain operational reports, dashboards, and documentation supporting incentive compensation processes.
- Partner with Compensation, Payroll, Finance, and HR stakeholders to ensure data integrity throughout the incentive compensation lifecycle.
SAS to Oracle Fusion Migration
- Assess current SAS-based compensation and incentive data models, business rules, calculations, and reporting processes.
- Document existing architecture, logic, dependencies, and data flows.
- Translate current-state incentive processes into Oracle Fusion design requirements.
- Partner with HR Technology and implementation teams to support migration activities.
- Support migration of existing SAS-based data structures, processing logic, and data requirements to Oracle Fusion, leveraging SQL for data extraction, transformation, validation, and reconciliation.
- Validate data mapping, transformation rules, and business logic throughout the migration lifecycle.
- Support system testing, user acceptance testing (UAT), and production readiness activities.
- Help establish scalable operating processes and governance for long-term support.
Stakeholder Consultation
- Serve as a trusted advisor to Compensation, Total Rewards, HR Technology, Finance, Payroll, and business stakeholders.
- Facilitate requirement gathering sessions and design workshops.
- Translate technical concepts into business-friendly recommendations.
- Support change management and user adoption activities during implementation.
- Collaborate across functional teams to ensure business needs are effectively translated into system solutions.
Required Qualifications
Experience
- 5+ years of experience in data analytics, data processing, compensation operations, HR Technology, incentive compensation, or related disciplines.
- Strong practical experience working with SAS-based data processing, reporting, analytics, or business-rule-driven processes.
- Hands-on experience working with Oracle Fusion and SQL, including Oracle Fusion data structures and related data processing.
- Experience working with complex datasets, business rules, calculations, and data transformations.
- Experience performing data validation, reconciliation, and quality assurance.
- Experience participating in system implementations, data migrations, conversions, or technology transformation projects.
- Demonstrated ability to understand existing processes and business requirements and translate them into data or system requirements.
- Experience partnering with business and technology stakeholders in a cross-functional environment.
Technical Skills
- Strong experience with SAS, including data extraction, transformation, business-rule implementation, validation, and reporting.
- Hands-on experience with Oracle Fusion and SQL, including working with Oracle Fusion data structures, querying and manipulating data, data mapping, transformation, validation, and reconciliation.
- Experience with data mapping, conversion, reconciliation, and migration activities.
- Advanced Excel skills.
- Ability to analyze complex datasets and identify data issues, exceptions, and relevant insights.
- Experience supporting system testing, UAT, and production deployments.
- Ability to document data flows, processing logic, business rules, and technical requirements.
Other Qualifications
Incentive Compensation & Total Rewards
- Experience administering incentive compensation, variable pay, sales incentive, commission, or bonus programs.
- Understanding of incentive plan concepts including eligibility, proration, performance measures, payout calculations, and plan-specific business rules.
- Familiarity with compensation governance, controls, audits, and payout processes.
- Understanding of Compensation and broader Total Rewards processes.
- Experience partnering with Payroll and Finance on compensation-related processes.
