Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP)
ADP Entry-Level Compensation and Benefits Analyst Professional Certificate

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Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP)

ADP Entry-Level Compensation and Benefits Analyst Professional Certificate

Unlock your potential in Compensation and Benefits. Build job-ready skills for an in-demand career as a Compensation and Benefits Analyst. No degree or experience required.

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4.4

(22 reviews)

Beginner level

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1 month
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace
Earn a career credential that demonstrates your expertise
4.4

(22 reviews)

Beginner level

Recommended experience

1 month
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Identify the value HR’s Compensation and Benefits function provides organizations as a strategic business partner.

  • Build a foundation of basic compensation terms, regulations, and concepts needed to support strategy design and administration.

  • Build a foundation of basic benefit terms, regulations, and concepts needed to support strategy design and administration.

  • Develop essential competencies like research, data gathering and analysis, problem-solving, and project management skills.

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July 2024

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Professional Certificate - 7 course series

Total Rewards & the Role of Compensation & Benefits

Course 14 hours4.8 (17 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • The requirements for attaining the ADP HR Compensation and Benefits Analyst Professional Certificate.

  • To identify the value and risks created by the strategy factors given a fictitious total rewards program strategy.

  • The typical role of a Compensation and Benefits Analyst in terms of the responsibilities and expectations.

  • To evaluate your strengths and development opportunities compared with the skills and competencies of a successful Compensation and Benefits Analyst.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Time off strategies
Category: Wellness Benefits
Category: Employee Benefits
Category: Benefits Strategies
Category: Health Benefits

What you'll learn

  • Determine how data analytic processes are used to make more effective data-driven decisions.

  • Demonstrate the ability to evaluate data collection methods to ensure data validity.

  • Apply basic project management concepts to create a simple RACI chart and Timeline.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Compliance Requirements
Category: Benefits Program Design
Category: Health Laws
Category: Employee Benefits
Category: Benefits Strategies

What you'll learn

  • The value created by an effective compensation strategy for both the employer and employees.

  • The regulations that influence compensation strategies, offerings, and administration.

  • The main factors and risks to consider when designing a compensation strategy that promotes fairness, transparency, and accountability.

  • How to use key metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of a company strategy.

Skills you'll gain

Category: disability insurance
Category: Group Insurance
Category: employee stock purchase plans
Category: Education assistance
Category: Retirement Administration

What you'll learn

  • Come learn common processes and all the terms associated with pay grades, structures, and job analysis.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Compensation Benchmarking
Category: Compensation Program Design
Category: Compensation Strategy
Category: Compensation Management
Category: Compensation Analysis

What you'll learn

  • Identify legally required and commonly offered benefits and list regulations that influence benefit strategies, offerings, and administration.

  • Summarize the value created by an effective benefits strategy for both the employer and employees.

  • Discuss the factors and process used in designing a benefits strategy, including communications design and administrative tasks.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Compensation strategy
Category: Compensation Program Design
Category: Benefits Strategies
Category: Compensation Strategy

What you'll learn

  • Critical concepts related to health benefits, plan types and structures, health spending accounts, dependent care, and time-off strategies.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Compensation analysis
Category: Job Evaluation
Category: Compensation Program Design

What you'll learn

  • Differentiate between different types of financial protection plans, including disability, life, accident, and critical illness insurance. 

  • Define the purpose of financial growth plans and how a well-designed strategy can benefit employees and the organization's total rewards program. 

  • List the basic features of defined benefit and defined contribution plans, with particular focus on details related to 401(k) plans.  

Skills you'll gain

Category: Timeline
Category: Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Category: Timelines
Category: Project Collaboration
Category: Data Analysis
Category: RACI Matrix
Category: Data Visualization
Category: Qualitative Data Analysis
Category: Quantitative Analysis

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ADP Learning Academy
Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP)
14 Courses21,860 learners

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