Chicago Trading Company (CTC) is a proprietary market-making firm with floor and electronic operations in the derivatives market.
(more about Chicago Trading Company)Senior Compensation Analyst
CTC is a cutting-edge proprietary trading firm with a long-term vision and a clear focus on helping the world price and manage risk. Our fun and trusting culture inspires us to solve the industry’s most challenging problems and take calculated risks in a collaborative environment.
We strive to be the most innovative firm in the industry today, tomorrow, and long into the future while upholding ethical excellence. We believe that CTC makes a positive impact on the markets, the lives of our employees, and all the communities to which we belong. Started in 1995 by a team of forward-thinking Traders, we are proud to call ourselves an industry leader that keeps making markets and each other better.
CTC’s Human Capital Management (HCM) team is passionate about providing an outstanding employee experience, which includes ensuring competitive and equitable compensation. As CTC’s Senior Compensation Analyst, you’ll collaborate closely with business, Finance and HCM teams to drive every aspect of our compensation process and strategy. Additionally, you’ll play a key role in building and managing people analytics reporting, providing valuable insights for the firm.
What You’ll Do
- Execute CTC's compensation processes, collaborating closely with business leaders, Finance, and other HCM Operations team members
- Spearhead the development and implementation of process and tool enhancements to continue to improve and scale our comp and analytics capabilities
- Partner with our internal Recruiting team in helping to structure competitive pay packages to attract and retain top talent.
- Generate actionable data reports and insights to support HCM and business leaders in their decision making
- Analyze market data to help the firm make informed and fair compensation decisions
- Partner with firm leaders to ensure understanding and effective management of CTC's compensation philosophy among employees and people managers
- Conduct Pay Equity reviews to ensure fairness in compensation across all roles and responsibilities
- Assess leadership and team requests and provide expert advice and customized data analysis as required
What We’re Looking For
- 3+ years’ experience in an HR compensation role
- Proven track record in crafting and refining compensation processes, using internal and external tools
- Proficiency in advanced Excel, with the ability to develop insightful people data analytics dashboards and reports
- Experience using benchmarking data to ensure compensation is in line with external benchmarks
- Demonstrated capability to not only conceptualize but also complete tasks and deliverables. Our culture is agile and hands-on, where every team member actively contributes
- Experience working with recruiting team to structure competitive pay packages, including exp with buy outs. (preferred, not required)
- Experience conducting thorough Pay Equity analyses (preferred, not required)
- International compensation experience (preferred, not required)
This role is hybrid, with an average of three days a week working from our Chicago office expected
Our Benefits
We strongly believe in the well-being of our employees and their families so we offer outstanding benefits to support you both professionally and personally. These benefits include generous medical coverage, paid parental leave, free breakfast and lunch (plus healthy snacks, of course), wellness reimbursement, quarterly recharge days, and a variety of other benefits focused on providing the best employee experience.
(Disclaimer: Interns and Contractors are not eligible for benefits at CTC)
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
At CTC, we aim to cultivate a workplace that celebrates diversity and each person feels included, engaged and empowered. Where each of us feels we belong. We are committed to having a diverse workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. CTC does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
If you have a disability and believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to apply for a position, please contact us at info@chicagotrading.com. Note that emails sent to this email account for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.