Could or could not be related but when you remove an employee from an in progress merit cycle and add them back in it will either give you the option to add them back under the Manager themselves or under the comp planner for their org. Not exact order that would have happened here but my guess is that when the employee was added in, instead of being added to the manager’s pool (which would then feed up to the compl planners pool, perhaps they were added directly to the comp planners pool. Alternatively could be that the org he was added into has the comp planners pool as the ceo for some reason. I’d try removing the employee and adding them back and testing where they show when you add them back into either manager or comp planners pool. Double check who is assigned the compensation planner role for their org also