Total Rewards Analyst

Job Title: Total Rewards Analyst

Department: HR Compensation

Location: Riedman Campus

Hours Per Week: 40

Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8am - 4:30pm

SUMMARY:

This role provides analytical and project support across the organization’s total rewards function, with a focus on both compensation and benefits. The position plays a key role in evaluating and maintaining data within HR systems, supporting enterprise-wide system enhancements, and ensuring accurate configuration and implementation for pay and benefit program changes. A significant portion of the work involves partnering with labor relations to prepare compensation and benefits analyses for collective bargaining, conduct union contract reviews, and ensure negotiated changes are accurately implemented. The role blends technical aptitude, data analysis, and cross-functional collaboration to help ensure the organization’s total rewards programs remain compliant, competitive, and operationally sound.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Conduct compensation and benefits analyses to support program design, contribution strategy evaluation, pay decisions, market reviews, and modeling for both represented and non-represented employee groups.

• Partner with labor relations to prepare data, costing models, and scenario analyses for collective bargaining, union negotiations, and contract renewals.

• Review collective bargaining agreements and proposed language changes to identify compensation, benefits, eligibility, and system impacts, ensuring accurate interpretation and implementation.

• Interpret collectively bargained benefit eligibility provisions and support alignment with HRIS configuration, payroll deductions, and vendor administration requirements.

• Support the administration of existing union contracts by preparing compensation or benefits data for offers, grievances, arbitrations, and issue resolution.

• Maintain and validate total rewards data within HR systems, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and readiness for audits, reporting, and labor related inquiries.

• Contribute to system enhancement projects by documenting requirements, testing configuration changes, and ensuring alignment with negotiated agreements and organizational policies.

• Monitor emerging union activity and support the integration of new bargaining units by assessing compensation and benefits implications and preparing baseline analyses.

• Collaborate with HRIS, payroll, legal, and operational partners to ensure seamless execution of total rewards processes and contract driven changes.

• Develop clear, data driven summaries, reports, and presentations for leadership, labor relations, and HR partners to support decision making.

• Identify opportunities to streamline workflows, improve data quality, and enhance responsiveness to evolving labor and total rewards needs.

• Perform additional responsibilities within compensation or benefits as assigned to support the broader total rewards function.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Economics, Data Analytics, or a related field.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• 3 – 5 years of experience supporting compensation, benefits, HR analytics, HRIS, or another quantitative HR function, including collective bargaining, union contract administration, labor related data analysis.

• Demonstrated ability to analyze and interpret data, including pay structures, benefits programs, costing models, and workforce trends.

• Strong proficiency with Excel and comfort working with large datasets

• Strong communication skills, including the ability to prepare clear summaries, reports, and presentations for HR, labor relations, and leadership audiences.

• High attention to detail, sound judgment, and the ability to maintain confidentiality when working with sensitive employee and labor related information.

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with cross functional partners such as HRIS, payroll, legal, and labor relations.

EDUCATION:

LICENSES / CERTIFICATIONS:

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

S - Sedentary Work - Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time, but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.

For disease specific care programs refer to the program specific requirements of the department for further specifications on experience and educational expectations, including continuing education requirements.

Any physical requirements reported by a prospective employee and/or employee’s physician or delegate will be considered for accommodations.

PAY RANGE:

$70,000.00 - $100,000.00

CITY:

Rochester

POSTAL CODE:

14617

The listed base pay range is a good faith representation of current potential base pay for a successful full time applicant. It may be modified in the future and eligible for additional pay components. Pay is determined by factors including experience, relevant qualifications, specialty, internal equity, location, and contracts.

Rochester Regional Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, predisposing genetic characteristics, marital or familial status, military or veteran status, citizenship or immigration status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.