Reward Advisor

Overview

In this Reward Advisor role, you support the firm’s reward function to sustain accurate data, governance, and continuous improvement across pay, bonus, and recognition. You will collaborate with the Group Services HR team to manage reward data, job evaluation and benchmarking, and to drive policy-informed decisions. The role offers hybrid working and contributes to the 2030 strategy by ensuring consistent reward practices and strong data integrity. You will engage with HR colleagues, line managers and external partners to deliver robust reward solutions and insights.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid working
• health and wellbeing initiatives
• generous benefits
• competitive salaries

Responsibilities

• Support annual pay review, bonuses and profit share processes with timeliness and controls
• Prepare and maintain reward data templates for HRBP, Business Services Heads and line managers
• Run reports, perform data checks, and highlight anomalies in reward data
• Provide analytical commentary to inform reward policy and practice decisions
• Coordinate with Internal Communications on reward-related messaging
• Coordinate all job evaluation activity and ensure alignment with OC levels and grading structures
• Document and maintain job evaluation outcomes and governance; communicate grade changes
• Assist with salary benchmarking using WTW and other sources for offers, promotions and submissions
• Support role profile project and maintain central storage for role profiles
• Contribute to HRIS development from a reward perspective and test reward configurations
• Coordinate recognition scheme processes, run quarterly usage reports and provide insights
• Own reward-specific trackers and governance, improve data and governance, and assist with gender pay gap and living wage reporting
• Maintain contract management documentation related to reward with Legal/Compliance and external providers
• Communicate with HR colleagues and line managers to promote understanding of OC reward frameworks
• Escalate complex issues to the Senior Reward Manager when needed
• Ensure data integrity and governance across reward workstreams

Key requirements

• Solid attention to detail and accuracy
• Clear verbal and written communication skills with ability to explain technical reward guidance to non-technical audiences
• Strong stakeholder management and collaborative, service-oriented approach
• Strong organisational skills and ability to manage competing priorities
• Pragmatic problem-solving with willingness to refine processes
• Strong analytical skills with numerical data and ability to identify trends
• Confident user of Excel (formulas and v-lookup) and HRIS
• Good understanding of job evaluation methodology and grading principles
• Prior HR experience with exposure to pay review, bonus and/or grading processes

• Attention to detail
• Stakeholder management
• Communication
• Excel (formulas and v-lookup)
• HRIS
• Job evaluation methodology

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