Reward Advisor

Full Circle Technical Recruitment; Thatcham; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

Full Circle Technical Recruitment is recruiting for a Reward Advisor to join a large, established organisation within its HR function. The role focuses on compensation activities, including salary reviews, bonus schemes, benchmarking and pay gap reporting.

You will analyse large data sets, support system configuration, and respond to reward queries from employees and managers. This contract role offers hybrid working and steady workload through year-end.

Qualifications

• Ideally 2+ years' experience in Reward, HR, Compensation & Benefits or Finance.
• Experience with salary reviews, benchmarking, bonus schemes or job evaluation.
• Advanced Excel skills (LOOKUPs, PivotTables, data visualisation).
• Experience using HR systems and strong attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Escalation point for complex compensation and reward queries.
• Support the annual salary review, early careers salary review and promotion / exceptional increase processes.
• Support system configuration, data validation, reporting and query resolution as part of salary review activity.
• Assist with administration of management bonus schemes, including participation records, calculations, reporting and payroll information.
• Carry out job evaluation and provide salary benchmarking information.
• Maintain job architecture and associated reward data.
• Complete external salary survey submissions.
• Support gender and ethnicity pay gap calculations and reporting.
• Produce and analyse compensation data and present findings clearly through reports, graphs and dashboards.
• Support reward presentations and communications to improve employee understanding of their overall reward package.
• Contribute to projects aimed at improving reward processes, systems and employee experience.

Skills

Excel skills

Data analysis

Numerical ability

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Oracle HCM

Job description

Reward Advisor

Contract

Hybrid Working

We are recruiting for a Reward Advisor to join a large, established organisation within its wider HR / People function.

This is a varied role supporting the delivery of a broad range of reward and compensation activities, including salary reviews, bonus schemes, job evaluation, benchmarking, pay gap reporting and reward data analysis.

The role would suit someone with previous experience in Reward, Compensation & Benefits, HR or Finance who is highly analytical, confident working with large data sets and comfortable supporting employees and managers with reward-related queries.

Responsibilities

• Acting as an escalation point for more complex compensation and reward queries.
• Supporting the annual salary review, early careers salary review and promotion / exceptional increase processes.
• Supporting system configuration, data validation, reporting and query resolution as part of salary review activity.
• Assisting with the administration of management bonus schemes, including participation records, calculations, reporting and payroll information.
• Carrying out job evaluation and providing salary benchmarking information.
• Maintaining job architecture and associated reward data.
• Completing external salary survey submissions.
• Supporting gender and ethnicity pay gap calculations and reporting.
• Producing and analysing compensation data and presenting findings clearly through reports, graphs and dashboards.
• Supporting reward presentations and communications to improve employee understanding of their overall reward package.
• Contributing to projects aimed at continuously improving reward processes, systems and employee experience.

We are looking for someone with strong numerical and analytical skills who is comfortable working with detailed compensation data and managing multiple deadlines.

Ideal Qualifications

• Ideally 2+ years' experience working within Reward, HR, Compensation & Benefits or Finance.
• Previous exposure to reward or compensation activity such as salary reviews, benchmarking, bonus schemes or job evaluation.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including LOOKUPs, nested IF statements, PivotTables and data visualisation.
• Strong numeracy and analytical ability with excellent attention to detail.
• Experience working with HR systems.
• Strong organisational and prioritisation skills.
• The ability to work accurately to tight deadlines.
• Confident communication skills and the ability to build effective working relationships at all levels.
• A problem-solving mindset and an interest in improving processes.
• Experience using Oracle HCM would be beneficial, as would previous exposure to job evaluation methodologies or external salary surveys.

About the Opportunity

The role would suit either an existing Reward Advisor / Reward Analyst or an HR professional who already has solid hands-on experience of compensation and reward and would like to specialise further in this area.

This is a contract role, initially expected to run through to the end of the year but could be extended.

Standard hours are 35 hours per week.

Only those with the right to work in the UK can be considered for this position.

Full Circle Technical is acting as an employment business and agency. Only applicants with the right to work in the UK can be considered.