Grant Thornton is seeking a Director, Global Compensation to join the team. Approved office locations can be found below. As Director, Global Compensation, you will lead the strategy, design, and governance of compensation across our global footprint - harmonizing pay practices across countries while respecting local markets and regulatory requirements. You'll own our global compensation philosophy, build scalable pay structures, and serve as a key architect of our global job framework. A defining feature of this role is leading compensation integration for M&A activity - bringing newly acquired firms onto a consistent job and pay architecture in a way that protects talent, realizes synergies, and drives cultural alignment. You'll partner across People & Culture, Finance, Legal, and business leadership, because together is how we succeed.

Your day-to-day may include:

Global compensation strategy, design, and integration + Own and evolve the global compensation strategy and pay philosophy, ensuring alignment to business goals and competitive market positioning. + Design and maintain scalable, market-based pay structures that flex across geographies while preserving global consistency. + Serve as the subject-matter expert, advising senior leaders on pay decisions, market positioning, and total cash competitiveness + Lead the development and governance of the global job architecture - job levels, ranks/progression, career paths, and technical specialty alignment that is anchored in a consistent, competency-based taxonomy. + Oversee job mapping, leveling, and validation as roles are aligned to the global framework and migrated into HRIS systems and define a phased path to the firm's compensation strategy (base, bonus, equity). + Assess integration-driven role changes (scope, retention risk, market demand) and recommend base pay and bonus actions with strong change-management discipline. Benchmarking and market insight + Lead the benchmarking approach and market positioning; manage survey providers (e.g., Mercer, WTW etc.) and market-pricing tools (e.g., Payfactors). + Interpret market data to inform structure design, salary ranges, and bonus tables. + Administer salary structures across geographies. Governance, risk and compliance + Ensure compliance with all local and global regulatory requirements, including EU Pay Transparency Directive readiness and pay equity reporting across jurisdictions. + Lead pay equity analysis and remediation plann To view full details and how to apply, please login or create a Job Seeker account