Courtnay M

HR Compensation Manager

May 2023 - Sep 2026 • 3 yrs 4 mos

- Serve as a trusted advisor to HR and business leaders on compensation, talent investment, organizational structure, pay equity, and workforce planning decisions, directly supporting 23 VPs and multiple Director-level leaders. - Lead a team of seven across the U.S. and India, setting direction, coaching through change, and creating consistent processes across a growing global team. - Built leader-facing annual rewards tools, guidance, executive summaries, and decision materials that clarified roles, timelines, budgets, workforce investments, performance outcomes, talent signals, and compensation risk. - Helped integrate acquired organizations into Paychex compensation and HR practices, balancing legacy expectations, business needs, employee impact, and governance requirements. - Partner with HRBPs, Compensation, HR Tech, Finance, HR leadership, and senior leaders as a go-to resource for complex people strategy and problem solving, including job strategy, confidential decision support, role design, new-in-role investment, promotion strategy, market pressure, and exception management. - Contributed to compensation philosophy, salary structure harmonization, job architecture, and annual rewards process design as Paychex continues to scale and integrate.

Senior Compensation Analyst

Jul 2022 - May 2023 • 10 mos

- Supported a 7,500-employee Service organization as a consultative partner to four VPs, multiple Directors, and HRBPs on strategic moves, pay decisions, job changes, FLSA classification, and policy application. - Reviewed and implemented 100+ roles, helping leaders match work to the right level, pay range, classification, and business need. - Strengthened annual planning readiness through training, earlier system reviews, clear leader guidance, and proactive issue resolution. - Delivered year-end and merit programs on time and within 1% of budget while maintaining leader alignment and employee-facing accuracy.

Manager, Accounts Payable and Payroll

Nov 2019 - Jun 2022 • 2 yrs 7 mos

- Led 18 employees, including three leaders, through complex payroll, AP, timekeeping, tax, compliance, and reporting work supporting 15,000 employees across 24 entities and 48 states. - Partnered closely with Finance, HR, Tax, Legal, Benefits, and business leaders to manage employee-impacting processes with accuracy, consistency, and risk discipline. - Led an entity reduction initiative that simplified operations, reduced tax filing complexity by more than 80%, and required careful coordination across impacted teams. - Built reporting for senior Finance leaders that improved visibility into spend, vendor activity, travel and expense trends, and entity-level decision-making. - Created stronger controls and operating discipline, contributing to an Outstanding Internal Audit rating in 2022.