Role: Compensation & Reward Lead
Salary/Rate: £60 - £68 per hr inside IR35
Location: Hybrid Reading
Contract Duration: 12-months
We are currently looking for a Compensation & Reward Lead for our government client.
The full-time Compensation & Reward Lead role is hybrid, based between 3 days per week on site in Reading and the remainder of the week working remotely. Candidates must be based in the UK. There is no further flexibility with expected time on site, or the office location.
Security Clearance: Security Check ("SC Clearance")
The contract for this Compensation & Reward Lead position is for 12-months, with potential to extend, operating inside IR35.
This role is inside IR35 - Due to the service of the role, it will now be based on an Umbrella solution.
Essential Skills / Experience required:
- Proven Compensation & Reward experience, managing pay, benefits, allowances, and incentive frameworks.
- Experience delivering annual pay reviews, salary benchmarking, and market analysis.
- Strong knowledge of reward governance, compliance, audit requirements, and employment legislation.
- Experience advising senior stakeholders on remuneration and reward-related matters.
- Experience leading reward teams and driving the successful delivery of reward programmes.
- Knowledge of mobility, relocation, or international assignment programmes would be advantageous.
Role / Responsibilities:
- Maintain and communicate pay ranges, allowances, and variable pay arrangements.
- Through a Mobility Enablement role, ensuring the communication and maintenance of a mobility framework, policy and process.
- Produce statutory reports, including gender pay gap analysis, with compensation insights and commentary.
- Advise on pay agreements across the business, acting as a subject matter expert and supporting the Industrial Relations lead in Trade Union discussions or negotiations.
- Generate and provide compensation-related data, including key performance indicators.
- Liaise with HR to ensure effective and compliant compensation uploads into payroll, offering oversight and guidance.
- Act as the focal point for all compensation-related internal and external audits, conducting internal checks and monitoring to proactively resolve issues.
- Line manage reward professionals providing professional development and holding to account for delivery
- Provide professional guidance and share knowledge with reward colleagues.
- Maintaining all compensation frameworks, including base pay, allowances, and incentives.
- Monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of compensation programmes, with recommendations based on business input, professional insight, and data.
- Ensuring the delivery of a domestic and international mobility service that supports business needs whilst remaining appropriately competitive and benchmarked with other public sector defence bodies.
- Conducting regular benchmarking and market analysis to ensure competitive compensation offerings.
- Collaborating with HR and management to ensure compensation programmes are well-communicated and understood.
- Ensuring compliance with relevant laws, regulations, and any delegated authority or pay freedoms granted by the government.
- Meeting all internal and external audit requirements related to compensation.
- Providing expert advice and support to managers on compensation-related matters.
- Managing the annual pay review process and staff incentive distribution.
- The successful deployment of employees to overseas or domestic locations as required by the business.
- Offering professional guidance, leadership, and direction to reward professionals assigned to or reporting within this area.
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As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, Circle and our Client guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. Our client is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, they guarantee to interview all veterans, spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where they have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses, partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, they will interview the best candidates from within that group. If you qualify, please notify us on igs [at] circlerecruitment [dot] com. We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your guaranteed interview.
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