Senior Manager, Variable Compensation

WHO WE ARE

Relation Insurance is a leading, innovative company with a strong commitment to excellence and a passion for delivering cutting-edge solutions to our clients. As a key player in the insurance market, we pride ourselves on our dynamic culture, collaborative environment, and continuous drive for success. With a rich history and a bright future ahead, we are looking for exceptional individuals to join our team and contribute to our ongoing growth and success.
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

The Senior Manager, Variable Compensation leads the execution, governance, and continuous improvement of Relation’s variable compensation programs across automated and non-automated workflows. The individual in this role serves as a senior escalation point for complex compensation matters, owns key compensation processes and controls, supports acquisition readiness and integration activity and partners with Sales, Finance, and Operational leadership to strengthen accuracy, consistency, reporting, scalability, and compliance across the function.
A GLIMPSE INTO YOUR DAY

- Leads operational oversight and governance of variable compensation programs across automated and non-automated compensation workflows, ensuring accurate, complete, and timely payouts in accordance with plan provisions.

- Serves as the senior escalation point for complex compensation issues.

- Establishes and monitors operational controls, review procedures, documentation standards, and audit-ready practices to support payment accuracy, data integrity, confidentiality, and compliance with applicable pay requirements and company standards.

- Leads compensation-related acquisition and integration readiness, including review of historical compensation practices, transition risk identification, cutover planning, testing oversight, issue escalation, and post-close stabilization to support accurate and timely compensation payments for acquired teams.

- Reviews and oversees monthly variable compensation calculations, reconciliations, adjustments, and payout reporting across responsible workstreams.

- Ensures strong coordination between automated and manual compensation processes.

- Partners with Sales, Finance, and leadership to support implementation and administration of commission and incentive plans, policy changes, compensation memos, and related communication.

- Identifies, evaluates, and improves variable compensation processes.

- Oversees reporting and analysis from multiple systems and data sources, ensuring data validation, exception research, and integrity of compensation-related information. Develops and delivers compensation reporting, dashboards, and leadership insights that identify trends, risks, and opportunities for improvement.

- Supports preparation and review of commission statements, summaries, dashboards, presentations, and recommendations for finance and sales leadership.

- Leads or supports process, workflow, and system enhancements.

- Supports audits, internal controls, confidentiality requirements, and compliance with applicable pay requirements and company standards.

- Leads hiring, onboarding, coaching, development, performance management, and workforce planning.

- Identifies opportunities to leverage technology, automation, reporting tools, and AI-enabled solutions to improve compensation processing, validation, exception management, workflow efficiency, and leadership reporting.

- Assists with related accounting, finance, operational, and analytical projects and performs special projects and other duties as assigned.

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE IN THIS ROLE
- High School diploma or equivalent required. Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or related field strongly preferred.

- Minimum 7 years of progressively responsible experience in variable compensation, commissions administration, financial analysis, accounting operations, or related analytical work, including responsibility for complex compensation