Certified Pension Consultants
Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists
13-1141.00
Median wages
$53,150
Conduct programs of compensation and benefits and job analysis for employer. May specialize in specific areas, such as position classification and pension programs.
- Ensure company compliance with federal and state laws, including reporting requirements.
- Evaluate job positions, determining classification, exempt or non-exempt status, and salary.
- Plan, develop, evaluate, improve, and communicate methods and techniques for selecting, promoting, compensating, evaluating, and training workers.
- Prepare occupational classifications, job descriptions, and salary scales.
- Provide advice on the resolution of classification and salary complaints.
- Advise managers and employees on state and federal employment regulations, collective agreements, benefit and compensation policies, personnel procedures, and classification programs.
- Prepare reports, such as organization and flow charts, and career path reports to summarize job analysis and evaluation and compensation analysis information.
- Perform multifactor data and cost analyses that may be used in areas such as support of collective bargaining agreements.
- Assess need for and develop job analysis instruments and materials.
- Observe, interview, and survey employees and conduct focus group meetings to collect job, organizational, and occupational information.
- Assist in preparing and maintaining personnel records and handbooks.
- Research job and worker requirements, structural and functional relationships among jobs and occupations, and occupational trends.
- Administer employee insurance, pension and savings plans, working with insurance brokers and plan carriers.
- Negotiate collective agreements on behalf of employers or workers, and mediate labor disputes and grievances.
- Research employee benefit and health and safety practices and recommend changes or modifications to existing policies.
- Analyze organizational, occupational, and industrial data to facilitate organizational functions and provide technical information to business, industry, and government.
- Advise staff of individuals' qualifications.
- Develop, implement, administer and evaluate personnel and labor relations programs, including performance appraisal, affirmative action, and employment equity programs.
- Analytical or scientific software — SAS
- Business intelligence and data analysis software — IBM Cognos Impromptu
- Data base management system software — Relational database management software
- Data base user interface and query software — Clayton Wallis CompGeo Online Professional Forecast Library; Data entry software ; Microsoft Access ; Salary.com
- Document management software — Actuarial Systems Corporation Document Generation and Management System; Document management system software
- Electronic mail software — Microsoft Outlook
- Enterprise resource planning ERP software — Lawson ERP; Oracle Fusion Applications ; Oracle PeopleSoft ; SAP ERP Human Capital Management
- Human resources software — ADP Workforce Now ; Human resource management software HRMS ; IBM Cognos; Oracle E-Business Suite Human Resources Management System
- Internet browser software — Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Medical software — Healthcare common procedure coding system HCPCS ; Medical condition coding software ; Medical procedure coding software
- Office suite software — Microsoft Office
- Presentation software — Microsoft PowerPoint
- Project management software — Microsoft SharePoint ; Project planning software
- Spreadsheet software — Microsoft Excel
- Time accounting software — ADP Enterprise eTime; Kronos Workforce Timekeeper; Sage Abra
- Word processing software — Microsoft Word
- Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Reading Comprehension — Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
- Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Complex Problem Solving — Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
- Systems Analysis — Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
- Writing — Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
- Active Learning — Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
- Judgment and Decision Making — Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Monitoring — Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Operations Analysis — Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.
- Social Perceptiveness — Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Coordination — Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
- Instructing — Teaching others how to do something.
- Mathematics — Using mathematics to solve problems.
- Negotiation — Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
- Systems Evaluation — Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
