Compensation Analyst

Laing O'Rourke; Dartford; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is on the lookout for a proactive Compensation Analyst to join their dynamic reward team. This exciting role offers the opportunity to engage with diverse teams and contribute to impactful reward strategies that attract and retain top talent. You will play a vital part in salary benchmarking, data analysis, and the development of competitive compensation packages. If you have a passion for reward principles and a keen analytical mind, this position will provide you with a platform to grow your career in a supportive and innovative environment.

Qualifications

• Experience with analytical job evaluation systems and salary surveys.
• Advanced understanding of Microsoft Excel and employee benefits.

Responsibilities

• Support development of pay and total reward strategy.
• Assist with job evaluation and market data analysis.
• Create reports for internal stakeholders and regulatory disclosures.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Data Analysis

Microsoft Excel

Understanding of Employee Benefits

Education

Degree in Human Resources or related field

Tools

Analytical Job Evaluation System

Salary Survey Systems (Willis Tower Watson, PayData)

Job description

Location: Dartford

This is a permanent position, available on a full-time or part-time basis.

This role does not offer sponsorship.

Looking to develop your career in reward?
We are seeking a compensation analyst to join our high-performing reward team, supporting a large and diverse workforce.

As a compensation analyst, you will support the delivery of reward activities, including salary benchmarking and data analysis. You will assist in maintaining accurate data and contribute to the continuous improvement of reward policies, tools, and processes. A basic understanding of core employee benefits will be important to support broader reward activities.

About the team

Our reward team is a high-performing and collaborative function within the wider People (HR) team at Laing O'Rourke. We play a critical role in shaping the employee experience by designing and delivering competitive and fair reward strategies that help attract, motivate, and retain top talent across the organisation.

The reward team provides expertise in areas such as compensation benchmarking, benefits, recognition, and performance-related pay. Our work supports the development of reward frameworks that are aligned with Laing O'Rourke's strategic goals and values, ensuring that our people feel valued and rewarded for their contributions.

Duties include:

• Support in development of a new pay and total reward strategy.
• Assist with job evaluation, evaluating new and existing roles for appropriate job families, levels and salary ranges.
• Assist with analysis of external market data to benchmark roles to ensure compensation package remain competitive.
• Supporting in the successful delivery of the annual salary review, as well as promotion, merit and market adjustment requests.
• Analysis of compensation data to create regular, ad-hoc and formal reports for the team and internal stakeholders. Support the preparation of regulatory disclosures such as gender pay gap and ethnicity pay gap.

Technical Capabilities:

• Experience with an analytical job evaluation system.

• Experience in salary survey systems (Willis Tower Watson and PayData knowledge desirable).

• Advanced understanding of Microsoft Excel

• Understanding of common employee benefits

If you're interested in a career in reward, with an understanding of reward principles and a proactive, organised approach, this role could be a great opportunity for you.
Based at our Dartford office, this position offers the chance to engage with our people and contribute to reward strategies that make a real impact across the business.

About us:
We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.

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