Senior Incentive Compensation Governance Analyst

Senior Incentive Compensation Governance Analyst page is loaded## Senior Incentive Compensation Governance Analystlocations: USA TX - Remote: USA TX Houston - 1360 Post Oak Blvdtime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todayjob requisition id: JR107836At Stewart, we know that success begins with great people. As a Stewart employee, you’ll be joining a company that was named a 2024-2025 Best Company to Work For by U.S. News & World Report, and a 2025 Top Workplace by USA Today. We are committed to helping you own, develop, and nurture your career. We invest in your career journey because we understand that as you grow, so does our company. And our priority is smart growth – by attaining the best people, investing in tools and resources that enable success, and creating a better home for all.You will be part of an inclusive work environment that reflects the customers we serve. You’ll be empowered to use your unique experiences, passion and skills to help our company and the communities we serve constantly evolve and improve. Together, we can achieve our vision of becoming the premier title and real estate services company.Stewart is a global real estate services company, providing title insurance, settlement, underwriting, and lender services through our family of companies. To learn more about Stewart, visit .More information can be found on . Get title industry information and insights at . Follow Stewart on @StewartTitleCo, on @StewartTitleCo and on @StewartTitle# **Job Description****Job Summary**We are looking for a structured, detail-oriented, and collaborative professional with a passion for continuous improvement to join our mission to transform compensation. In this role, you'll support how our incentive plans are documented, governed, and delivered, serving as the critical bridge between our Compensation Business Partners and the Incentive Calculation Team to ensure every plan design is translated into scalable, tech-enabled, and audit-ready frameworks. If you thrive on creating clarity in complexity and love working shoulder-to-shoulder with partners across the Compensation team, HR, Finance, Legal, HRIS, and the business to solve complex problems, you'll have a direct impact on how incentives are managed across the company.### ### **Job Description*** Support the design and maintenance of a consistent governance framework for variable compensation programs, ensuring controls are clearly defined, documented, and consistently applied.* Translate compensation design decisions into clear, structured deliverables such as plan summaries, eligibility matrices, decision logs, and governance reference materials, ensuring alignment between design intent and operational execution.* Serve as a key contact for audit and compliance activities, coordinating requests, preparing documentation, and ensuring programs remain audit-ready.* Manage the intake, documentation, and governance workflow for compensation exceptions and off‐cycle requests, including deviations from established program menus; ensure exceptions are properly documented, reviewed, approved, and routed with clear accountability for plan design, calculation, and submission.* Maintain end-to-end plan documentation as the system of record for plan details, governance decisions, design updates, and approvals, ensuring consistency in structure, terminology, and version control.* Partner with Incentive Calculation Teams and Incentive Compensation Partners to ensure plan documentation is executable, aligned to calculation requirements, and reflective of approved design intent.* Support program management for incentive initiatives by tracking timelines, milestones, and deliverables to ensure execution discipline across stakeholders.* Identify, document, and escalate risks related to timelines, compliance, or governance standards to appropriate stakeholders for resolution.* Act as a cross-functional coordination point between HR, Finance, Legal, and HRIS to ensure consistent application of governance standards and plan rules.* Provide guidance and communication to stakeholders on governance processes, documentation requirements, and exception procedures to support alignment and execution.* Perform other duties as assigned.**Education*** Bachelor’s degree required, concentration in HR, Business, Finance, or a related field preferred.**Experience*** 5–7+ years of progressive compensation experience, with meaningful exposure to incentive plan governance, documentation, and program management.**Skills**Compensation (Variable/Incentive Pay); Compensation Plan Design & Administration; Governance Risk & Compliance; Business Process Documentation; HR Project Management; Stakeholder Management ; Data Analysis & ReportingEqual Employment Opportunity EmployerStewart is committed to ensuring that its online application process provides an equal employment opportunity to all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. If you have a disability and need assistance or an accommodation in the application process, please contact us by email at View email address on click.appcast.io.**Benefits**Stewart offers eligible employees a competitive benefits package that includes, but is not limited to a variety of health and wellness insurance options and programs, paid time off, 401(k) with company match, employee stock purchase program, and employee discounts.Stewart is on a journey to become the premier title services company. We offer personalized service, industry expertise and customized solutions for virtually any type of real estate transaction and are a leading global real estate services provider. At our core, we help make property ownership around the world possible. In doing that, we take every step to foster meaningful relationships through our ingenuity and efforts and are dedicated to going above and beyond to provide the best experience for employees and customers alike. To do so, we know we must sustainably serve our employees, shareholders, customers and our communities at large. That’s why we are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that fosters a deep sense of pride, passion, respect and belonging, while lessening our impact on the environment and providing transparency around the way we do business. #J-18808-Ljbffr Stewart Information Services Corp.