Senior Total Reward Consultant — Flexible & Impactful

Western Power; Western Australia; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Up to four weeks of additional leave

Salary packaging

Discounted health insurance and gym

Wellness leave days

End-of-trip facilities and on-site gym

On-site café

22 weeks paid parental leave

First Nations cultural leave

Job summary

Western Power seeks a Senior Remuneration Consultant to provide specialist advice on complex remuneration and total reward matters across the organisation. You will manage job evaluation, benchmarking, modelling, and annual review cycles, delivering evidence-based recommendations to senior leaders and governance forums.

You will partner with People, Finance and Employee Relations to deliver integrated, commercially sound workforce solutions and modernise reward practices to stay contemporary and

Qualifications

• Extensive remuneration and total reward experience in complex environments.
• Strong analytical and numerical capability with advanced Excel.
• Experience developing remuneration models, options and recommendations for senior stakeholders and executives.
• Sound understanding of remuneration governance, pay equity, industrial instruments and related obligations.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver complex remuneration activities on time.
• Strong written communication for executive-quality reports, papers and recommendations.
• Tertiary qualification in human resources, business, commerce, finance or related discipline.

Responsibilities

• Provide trusted specialist advice on complex remuneration, benefits and total reward matters, balancing market competitiveness, internal equity, affordability, governance and employee experience.
• Manage job evaluation, market benchmarking and remuneration analysis providing clear insights and recommendations to support effective remuneration decisions.
• Manage the annual remuneration review cycle, including planning, modelling, data validation, stakeholder guidance and governance reporting.
• Prepare evidence-based remuneration recommendations, options and decision papers for leaders, executives and relevant governance forums.
• Analyse workforce and market data to identify remuneration trends, risks, inequities and emerging workforce issues, translating insights into practical actions and recommendations.
• Provide remuneration modelling and specialist advice to support Enterprise Agreement negotiations, industrial relations matters, organisational change and workforce planning.
• Partner across People, Finance, Talent Acquisition, Employee Relations and business to develop integrated and commercially sound workforce solutions.
• Strengthen and continuously improve remuneration and total reward practices, promoting the consistent and equitable application of frameworks, job evaluation methodology, policies, controls and delegated authorities.

Skills

Remuneration & total reward expertise

Advanced Microsoft Excel

Analytical thinking

Executive stakeholder communication

Education

Tertiary qualification in HR/Business/Finance or related discipline

Job description

Western Power seeks a Senior Remuneration Consultant to provide specialist advice on complex remuneration and total reward matters across the organisation. You will manage job evaluation, benchmarking, modelling, and annual review cycles, delivering evidence-based recommendations to senior leaders and governance forums.

You will partner with People, Finance and Employee Relations to deliver integrated, commercially sound workforce solutions and modernise reward practices to stay contemporary and