Senior Compensation Architect — Finance & Tech (Hybrid)

Maven; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A market-leading trading firm in Greater London seeks a Compensation Specialist to design and implement a comprehensive compensation framework. You will lead compensation structures, conduct benchmarking, and ensure alignment with commercial strategy. Ideal candidates will have proven experience in compensation within financial services and strong technical, analytical, and communication skills. The role offers a competitive salary, annual bonuses linked to performance, and benefits including private medical support and hybrid working.

Benefits

Competitive base salary

Annual bonus

Private medical insurance

Enhanced pension

Well-being support

Qualifications

• Proven experience in compensation or reward within financial services or high-growth tech.
• Ability to navigate high-sensitivity data and align frameworks to commercial strategy.
• Experience working across complex or high-performance environments.

Responsibilities

• Build and implement a comprehensive compensation framework.
• Conduct benchmarking across peer firms for comparable trading and quant roles.
• Own cyclical compensation review processes including salary reviews and bonus modeling.

Skills

Strong technical capability in modeling

Benchmarking expertise

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Highly analytical

Strong Excel skills

Job description

A market-leading trading firm in Greater London seeks a Compensation Specialist to design and implement a comprehensive compensation framework. You will lead compensation structures, conduct benchmarking, and ensure alignment with commercial strategy. Ideal candidates will have proven experience in compensation within financial services and strong technical, analytical, and communication skills. The role offers a competitive salary, annual bonuses linked to performance, and benefits including private medical support and hybrid working.