• Job Description

  Req#: R2894

  At Aqua, a subsidiary of Essential Utilities, Inc., we know that water is a precious resource – one that plays a critical role in sustaining life. That’s why we take seriously our mission: protecting and providing Earth’s most essential resource. At Aqua, we are guided by a set of principles that embody the character of our company and inspire our work together. They are embedded within our business practices and our behavior. We are proud to be united by integrity, respect and the pursuit of excellence to be the best we can be for the customers and communities we serve.

  Together, the women and men of Aqua, a subsidiary of Essential Utilities, Inc. serve 1 million customers across eight states. Aqua uses science, technology, capital investments, and amazing talent to provide communities with clean, safe drinking water and responsibly return wastewater to our rivers and streams. Join our team and make a difference!

  Primary accountabilities:

  • Leads the overall philosophy, direction, management, and administration of Essential’s compensation programs including base compensation and incentive programs, with a focus on rewarding excellence in performance.
  • Oversees the payroll function, ensuring accurate and timely payments to employees, managing audit controls, and ensuring effective and efficient operations, policies and procedures.
  • Manages the design, implementation and administration of executive compensation programs for key executives.
  • Manages the compensation and payroll teams. Interviews, hires, sets high performance standards and manages performance in accordance with all applicable HR policies and procedures. Creates an energized work environment, fostering an atmosphere that enables employee trust and engagement. Inspires confidence and motivates others to perform at their best. Develops and coaches staff while effectively addressing performance issues
  • Oversees Essential’s compensation components including job families and salary structures that drive consistency in market analysis, merit, and variable pay processes.
  • Leads the analysis on proxy and survey data, realized pay, and unvested equity. Identifies trends in the market; owns and drives material preparation for the CHRO and the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors.
  • Identifies and tracks insights from key competitors, trends and incorporates those into the broader competitive insights.
  • Provides leadership and oversees annual implementation and administration of compensation programs and systems including merit, market and equity analysis, recommendations and adjustments, short- and long-term incentive compensation. Ensures data integrity within data management and reporting.
  • Acts as the business lead to request, review and approve technological enhancements and systems to ensure automation and controls are effective for the compensation and payroll processes.
  • Educates and coaches management regarding compensation processes, job family structures, market analysis, job evaluations, merit and bonus practices. Develops key employee messaging on compensation topics
  • Creates and maintains strong partnerships across the company to ensure Essential has a comprehensive complete total rewards package to address talent attraction, retention and motivation
  • In collaboration with Legal, Accounting, Tax, Internal Audit and third-party administrators, ensures accurate reporting, budgeting and compliance with all applicable laws and regulations regarding compensation and related issues
  • Leads other tasks or projects as assigned

  To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential function(s).

  Required Experience, Education, Licenses, and Certifications

  • A minimum of 10 years of diverse compensation experience with a track record of progressive responsibility managing the compensation function as it relates to strategy and design. Experience should include design and management of base salary structures, short-term and long-term incentive programs, competitive market analysis, forecasting trends, costs and modeling outcomes
  • Bachelor's degree in human resource management, business, finance, economics, or related disciplines required. An MS or MBA degree is highly desirable.
  • Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) credential preferred

  Knowledge, skills and ability that you will bring:

  • Strong compensation consultation and partnership skills with the ability to build solid relationships
  • Outstanding problem-solving capabilities, including the ability to clearly define problems, collect data (primary and secondary), establish facts, draw valid conclusions, and influence others to implement recommendations
  • Strong people management skills, including contributing an atmosphere in which people work together enthusiastically and effectively in producing outstanding results
  • Ability to influence varying levels of leadership across the organization
  • Ability to deal tactfully and confidently with internal and external customers
  • Excellent written and verbal communications skills; communicate effectively and understanding executive conciseness
  • Understanding of relevant proxy disclosure rules
  • Strong customer service skills
  • Ability to work well under pressure
  • Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously and adapt to changing priorities in a fast-paced environment
  • A team player able to work effectively in a team fostered multi-tasking environment

  WORKING CONDITIONS/PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

  • Perform sedentary work- exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time.
  • See, hear, talk, and perform tasks requiring manual dexterity.
  • Operate standard office equipment.
  • Working conditions may include travel to work sites of Essential Utilities and/or other constituents (if applicable)

  The physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

  Aqua, a subsidiary of Essential Utilities, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. Equal employment opportunity is provided to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to the following legally protected characteristics: race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions, including medical conditions related to lactation), physical or mental disability, covered-veteran status, genetic information (including testing and characteristics), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal law.

  Aqua, a subsidiary of Essential Utilities, Inc. is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you have a condition that may prevent you from applying for a job online or need to request an accommodation during the interview process, please call 1-877-272-9012.

• About the company

  The company began in Pennsylvania and remains headquartered in Bryn Mawr.

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