Compensation and Total Rewards Lead (100% Remote)

With roots dating back to the 1800s, our Customer is a global professional services firm HQ’d in New York City with businesses in insurance brokerage, risk management, reinsurance services, talent management, investment advisory, and management consulting. Today, they are a unique group of businesses with many enduring competitive advantages. Among them are the quality of their colleagues, deep client relationships, vast global footprint, depth of intellectual capital, and cohesive and collaborative culture.

Our Customer is seeking an experienced Compensation & Total Rewards Lead on a contract basis to lead a comprehensive market benchmarking and internal compensation review, focused primarily on the US and Canada. This role will play a critical part in ensuring our salary structures and total rewards offerings are competitive, equitable, and aligned with our business strategy.

This role will conduct external benchmarking, evaluate internal compensation data, and develop structured salary guidelines across practices, levels, and actuarial credential progression. This role requires strong attention to detail, excellent analytical and interpersonal capabilities, and experience translating data into actionable compensation recommendations.

This role is remote; candidates local to Boston or NYC are preferred.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct market benchmarking analysis for salary, bonus, and total rewards across relevant actuarial consulting markets
• Identify appropriate peer groups, data sources, internal compensation data, and industry benchmark surveys
• Analyze compensation trends related to actuarial credentials, exams, years of experience, and specialization areas
• Develop structured salary ranges and compensation guidelines by practice area, role, job family, experience level, and actuarial credential progression
• Propose frameworks for base salary and total compensation positioning
• Review employee compensation data across practices, roles, and geographies
• Assess compensation alignment with market benchmarks, internal equity, and pay progression expectations
• Identify pay outliers, compression issues, and compensation inconsistencies
• Partner with HR leadership to prioritize potential compensation adjustments based on impact, risk, and budget considerations
• Evaluate broader total rewards offerings, including benefits, incentives, and exam support
• Recommend rewards enhancements to improve competitiveness and retention
• Present findings and recommendations to HR leadership and senior business stakeholders
• Develop actionable reports, compensation bands, guidelines, dashboards, and supporting documentation
• Provide documentation and tools to support ongoing compensation management

Skills and Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in compensation, human resources, finance, or HR analytics
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office, especially Excel and PowerPoint
• Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, data modeling, and large data set manipulation
• Experience working with compensation survey data
• Experience in actuarial, insurance, consulting, or professional services environments preferred
• Familiarity with actuarial career paths and credential structures, including ASA, FSA, and exam progression
• Strong analytical and data interpretation skills
• Strong understanding of compensation benchmarking, salary structures, and total rewards practices
• Ability to assess internal equity, market competitiveness, pay progression, and compensation risk
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation communication skills
• Ability to develop clear, actionable reports, dashboards, and compensation tools
• Strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills

We offer a competitive salary range for this position. Most candidates who join our team are hired at the median of this range, ensuring fair and equitable compensation based on experience and qualifications.

Contractor benefits are available through our 3rd Party Employer of Record (Available upon completion of waiting period for eligible engagements) Benefits include: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.