Job Summary: 

• Research client industries to understand the client’s opportunities and challenges, including competition for business and executive talent
• Analyze executive and board of director compensation design, levels, and practices to evaluate the  market competitiveness of client practices
• Evaluate the financial performance of clients and their peers to identify key performance drivers for the development of incentive programs
• Collaborate with project teams on creative and strategic brainstorming to address client key talent issues
• Participate in client calls and meetings, foster existing client relationship
• Study compensation trends, hot topics, accounting and tax rules, securities law, and corporate governance issues related to the field of compensation
• Contribute to firm-wide development efforts, including recruiting, mentoring, training, and thought leadership initiatives
• Establish a professional network for future business development opportunities

Skills on Resume: 

• Industry Research (Hard Skills)
• Compensation Analysis (Hard Skills)
• Financial Evaluation (Hard Skills)
• Strategic Collaboration (Soft Skills)
• Client Management (Soft Skills)
• Compensation Knowledge (Hard Skills)
• Mentoring (Soft Skills)
• Networking (Soft Skills)

Job Summary: 

• Develop executive compensation strategies, philosophies, and programs that address clients' attraction and retention needs
• Design financial performance measurement and target-setting systems to support executive compensation programs
• Design short-term and long-term incentive programs that reinforce the client's strategic objectives
• Structure, direct, review, and interpret analyses performed by the project team
• Create and review client deliverables
• Generate revenue through the development of new client relationships and building and maintaining strong client relationships
• Provide consulting services on broader Human Capital issues and/or market trends
• Mentor and guide junior team members

Skills on Resume: 

• Strategy Development (Hard Skills)
• Performance Design (Hard Skills)
• Incentive Design (Hard Skills)
• Team Management (Hard Skills)
• Deliverables Review (Hard Skills)
• Revenue Generation (Soft Skills)
• Consulting (Soft Skills)
• Mentoring (Soft Skills)

Job Summary: 

• Demonstrate a highly specialized level of expertise/knowledge of executive compensation program design that aligns with business strategies and goals as well as shareholder expectations
• Integrate business needs to identify and develop innovative, well-conceived, and appropriate design recommendations
• Complete, manage, and/or coordinate the activities and delivery of services for owned programs
• Program manages broad complex projects balancing design needs with implementation needs
• Independently coordinate activities of indirect reports involved in the program implementation to achieve end-to-end program completion
• Demonstrate expertise in tools by creating dynamic models to interpret and analyze data
• Develop ongoing relationships as a means to better understand business needs and approach with necessary partnerships both internally and externally
• Proactively research market, trends, company practices, and regulatory and political environment to advise on possible impacts, offer alternatives and support for selecting appropriate solutions
• Easily reach out to external companies and share best practice ideas, benchmark on approaches, and stay current in real-time on trends

Skills on Resume: 

• Executive Compensation Expertise (Hard Skills)
• Business Needs Integration (Soft Skills)
• Program Management (Hard Skills)
• Project Coordination (Hard Skills)
• Data Analysis Modeling (Hard Skills)
• Relationship Building (Soft Skills)
• Market Research (Hard Skills)
• External Networking (Soft Skills)

Job Summary: 

• Serves as a subject matter expert on equity, long-term cash, and deferred compensation
• Manage an internal mailbox that receives requests from current employees, retirees and former employees, legal and human resources business partners and provide timely and detailed responses.
• Provide high-touch services to operating committee executives and assist with their preclearance, vendor, or other questions/needs
• Partner with the executive compensation team, payroll services, legal, finance, compensation consultants, employee relations, and the strategic governance team to assist and get support for complex questions
• Responsible for daily administrative tasks in equity and deferred compensation spaces such as running reports and updating any status changes provided by payroll
• Provide beneficiary assistance for all executive compensation plans, including beneficiary contact, collection of paperwork, setting up payments, 1099 reporting, and liaison with Survivor Services
• Manage Employee Stock Purchase Plan sales transactions, purchases, and terminations
• Support Executive Compensation annual projects by responding to email inquiries

Skills on Resume: 

• Compensation Expertise (Hard Skills)
• Client Service Management (Soft Skills)
• Executive Support (Soft Skills)
• Cross-Department Collaboration (Soft Skills)
• Administrative Task Management (Hard Skills)
• Beneficiary Assistance (Soft Skills)
• Stock Plan Management (Hard Skills)
• Project Support (Soft Skills)

Job Summary: 

• Perform modeling to determine the valuation and financial impact of various cash and equity incentive programs
• Perform financial analyses of industry sectors and client peer groups
• Determine competitive pay positioning through analysis of SEC filings (e.g. proxy statements)
• Work closely with senior consultants on the project to determine the exhibits to be included in the final client presentations, which typically involves a high level of customization
• Collaborate with the project team on the most effective ways to structure analyses and present information to meet client objectives
• Contribute to the creation of client deliverables
• Ensure the accuracy of proxy analyses
• Be responsible for the technical part of client presentations to Boards of Directors, senior management, and human resources (and possibly have a speaking role at client meetings to review the technical aspects of the reports)

Skills on Resume: 

• Financial Modeling (Hard Skills)
• Financial Analysis (Hard Skills)
• Pay Positioning Analysis (Hard Skills)
• Client Presentation Support (Soft Skills)
• Team Collaboration (Soft Skills)
• Deliverable Creation (Hard Skills)
• Proxy Analysis Accuracy (Hard Skills)
• Presentation Expertise (Soft Skills)

Job Summary: 

• Work directly with managing partner and board of directors to evaluate and develop compensation and reward strategies that facilitate the achievement of business and human capital strategies.
• Serve as the project lead, ensuring progress against established objectives, budget, timeline, deliverables, and quality standards
• Develop a diverse executive compensation structure and competitive base pay and incentive approaches that enable us to achieve business goals and objectives
• Collaborate in the development, design, and implementation of a compensation program which includes a total rewards strategy, competitive benchmarking, annual and long-term incentive plan design, employment contract review, change in control agreements, and overall competitive pay analysis and pay for performance alignment for executives.
• Maintain confidentiality on all internal organizational affairs
• End-to-end coordination of the materials for the Compensation and Human Capital Committee of the Board of Directors and/or Management Compensation Committee
• Develop competitor compensation benchmarking reports (including competitor public filings) for senior executives and the Board of Directors
• Advise on the structure of senior executive compensation programs and general plan design
• Development of annual proxy statement Compensation Discussion and Analysis.
• Review of compensation-related regulatory requirements, guidance, and ongoing compliance, response to regulator requests related to Executive Compensation
• Ad hoc projects and general team support
• Perform other projects as assigned by the Managing Director and Board of Directors

Skills on Resume: 

• Strategy Development (Hard Skills)
• Project Leadership (Soft Skills)
• Compensation Design (Hard Skills)
• Program Implementation (Hard Skills)
• Confidentiality (Soft Skills)
• Committee Coordination (Soft Skills)
• Benchmarking (Hard Skills)
• Compliance (Hard Skills)

Job Summary: 

• Manages the executive compensation program including the design and administration of salary, short and long-term incentive plans, pay policies, rewards and benefits, performance measurement/goal setting, peer group development, benchmarking, joint ventures, etc.
• Builds strong relationships to understand business needs and provides full-service total rewards consultation.
• Leads and supports multiple executive compensation projects, including the strategic assessment of program effectiveness and modeling of potential program changes, developing, and managing policies and processes, and complying with regulatory changes.
• Proactively recommends and implements improvements to current executive compensation programs, policies, and processes for both immediate and long-term objectives, ensuring programs and practices remain innovative, competitive, efficient, and effective.
• Guides the decision-making process and outcomes by providing detailed analysis/models, innovative recommendations, and expert knowledge.
• Maintains awareness of the latest trends and regulations regarding executive compensation.
• Consults with leaders and business partners regarding executive and variable pay issues including benchmarking, leveling, performance, and compensation recommendations.
• Monitors federal, state, and local compensation regulations. Audits pay practices to ensure compliance with wage and hour laws, regulations, and internal pay policies.
• Leads the development of materials prepared for leadership teams and the Compensation Committee
• Manages external vendor relationships
• Lends expertise to staff (broad-based) compensation
• Participates in professional development to maintain and grow compensation capabilities.

Skills on Resume: 

• Compensation Program Management (Hard Skills)
• Relationship Building (Soft Skills)
• Project Leadership (Soft Skills)
• Program Improvement (Hard Skills)
• Decision Support (Soft Skills)
• Trend and Regulation Awareness (Hard Skills)
• Pay Consultation (Soft Skills)
• Compliance Monitoring (Hard Skills)

Job Summary: 

• Partner with Total Rewards leaders to design and develop a market-based total rewards package for executives to attract, motivate, reward, and retain.
• Administration of executive compensation programs to ensure all transactions are processed accurately and in a timely.
• Lead the design and modification of short-term and long-term compensation programs and the associated guidelines, processes, policies, and procedures.
• Develop internal communications and materials to educate applicable audiences (both employees and HR Business Partners) on executive compensation programs and incentive plans
• Partner with HRBPs and Talent Acquisition on proposals for executive new hire offers, promotions, adjustments, and other ad-hoc analyses.
• Prepare materials for Board of Directors and Human Resource committee meetings including annual incentive and long-term incentive plans including insights, analysis, and recommendations
• Work with executive compensation board advisors and ensure all materials related to executive compensation are prepared in time for the appropriate committee meetings
• Prepare monthly and annual reporting on annual and long-term incentive plans for finance to ensure accurate forecasting and planning
• Prepare, update, and create plan documents and other communication materials for annual and long-term incentive plans to ensure Thrivent complies with relevant governance and regulatory requirements
• Leverage market data in the consultation and analysis of compensation issues including analysis of internal and external compensation data, market pricing and evaluating jobs, developing recommendations for new and existing positions across the organization, and participating in salary surveys
• Lead and/or provide work direction to cross-functional teams to refine or implement compensation solutions

Skills on Resume: 

• Rewards Design (Hard Skills)
• Program Administration (Hard Skills)
• Program Design (Hard Skills)
• Communication (Soft Skills)
• Compensation Consultation (Soft Skills)
• Meeting Preparation (Hard Skills)
• Reporting (Hard Skills)
• Data Analysis (Hard Skills)

Job Summary: 

• Critically review client’s proxy statements (past filings and drafts) with a deep dive on the CD&A, provide recommendations on enhancing disclosures for optimal presentation, and navigate potential challenges with investors and proxy advisors on Say on Pay and equity plans
• Review and analyze proxy advisory firms’ Say on Pay assessments and institutional voting history
• Monitor latest compensation and governance developments, trends, and shifts in views (investors, regulators, proxy advisors, activists, shareholder proponents, industry peers, etc.) and communicate relevant findings internally and externally to clients, assess, analyze, and prepare materials that summarize potential impact to clients/services, and offer client-specific solutions
• Assist in developing investor outreach strategy (during off-season and solicitation period) and in preparing high-quality engagement materials, including PowerPoint decks, talking points, and potential investor questions
• Benchmark client’s compensation practices/policies/disclosure to peer companies, industry, and market standards, and shareholder expectations and produce related reports for client presentation, stay abreast of best-in-class proxy disclosures
• Contribute to the client experience by participating in calls/meetings as a topical expert, project management, and developing/collaborating on client deliverables
• Continue to expand compensation and broader governance knowledge
• Support team members across multiple functions, conduct ad-hoc client research requests
• Build relationships with issuers, institutions, and third-party firms as opportunities arise
• Assist in business development efforts and opportunities and in drafting new client proposals

Skills on Resume: 

• Proxy Analysis (Hard Skills)
• Investor Engagement (Soft Skills)
• Governance Monitoring (Hard Skills)
• Outreach Strategy (Soft Skills)
• Benchmarking (Hard Skills)
• Client Contribution (Soft Skills)
• Knowledge Growth (Soft Skills)
• Business Development (Soft Skills)