Senior Rewards Analyst / Comp and Bens Manager

Career Moves Group I B Corp; Slough; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Career Moves Group I B Corp is seeking a Senior Rewards Analyst / Comp and Ben s Manager to lead Reward and Benefits for a multi‑discipline, fast‑paced team in the UK. You will drive pay reviews, benchmarking, and benefits strategy across media, creative and central services functions.

You’ll partner with the People team and senior stakeholders, manage a small team, and ensure compliant, accurate payroll and reporting while continually improving reward processes.

Qualifications

• Generalist background in Compensation and Benefits.
• Experience running bonus and salary review modelling end-to-end.
• Solid experience in salary benchmarking.
• Line management experience.
• Advanced Excel skills and numerical ability.
• Strong working knowledge of HR systems and reporting.
• Confident senior stakeholder management and influencing skills.

Responsibilities

• Building strong relationships across the business to handle pay and benefits queries.
• Submitting data to third‑party providers for benefits and salary surveys.
• Analysing the current benefits offering and conducting competitive analyses.
• Managing the bi‑annual pay review and annual bonus end‑to‑end.
• Advising on pay benchmarking and benefits harmonisation.
• Overseeing benefits processes with brokers and external providers.
• Supporting wider Group Reward projects and legislative changes affecting reward.
• Overseeing payroll instructions and related reporting.
• Analysing payroll data, headcount and key People metrics.
• Line managing a team of 3 (1 Administrator, 2 Analysts).

Skills

Generalist Compensation & Benefits

Bonus & salary review modelling

Salary benchmarking

Line management

Advanced Excel

HR systems & reporting

Senior stakeholder management

Job description

Senior Rewards Analyst / Comp and Bens Manager

About the Role

A leading, integrated communications network — bringing together creative, media and health agencies under one roof — is looking for a proactive, hands‑on Compensation and Benefits Manager to join a progressive, award‑winning People team of 35.

This is a key partnering role, working closely with the wider People team, business managers, and internal and external service providers to run Reward and Benefits processes across the organisation's Media, Creative and central services teams. It's a genuine opportunity to bring specialist Payroll, Compensation and Benefits expertise to bear on building an industry‑leading reward proposition — recommending and implementing programmes that drive attraction, engagement and retention.

What You'll Be Doing

• Building strong, approachable relationships across the business, ensuring timely and accurate responses to pay and benefits queries
• Submitting data to third‑party providers for benefits and salary surveys
• Analysing the current benefits offering and running competitive analysis to inform recommendations
• Managing and delivering the bi‑annual pay review and annual bonus scheme end‑to‑end
• Partnering with the People Business Partnering team, providing expert guidance on pay (benchmarking, pay bandings) and benefits (harmonisation, TUPE)
• Overseeing benefits processes, including managing relationships with the benefits broker and external providers
• Supporting the Head of Compensation and Benefits on wider Group Reward projects
• Staying ahead of legislative changes affecting reward (pensions, gender pay reporting, commission, holidays, etc.) and proactively advising the business
• Overseeing accurate, timely monthly payroll instructions and checks
• Supporting preparation and submission of benefit‑in‑kind and other reporting
• Analysing and reporting on payroll data, headcount and other key People metrics
• Line managing a team of 3 (1 Administrator, 2 Junior Compensation and Benefits Analysts)

What We're Looking For

This role demands real technical depth in Compensation and Benefits, not just generalist HR experience. To succeed, you should bring:

• A genuine generalist background in Compensation and Benefits — this isn't a narrow or single‑process role
• Proven experience running bonus and salary review modelling, having led these processes end‑to‑end previously
• Solid experience in salary benchmarking
• Line management experience, whether direct or through project leadership
• Advanced Excel skills and strong numerical ability — this is a hard requirement, not a nice‑to‑have
• Strong working knowledge of HR systems and reporting
• Confident senior stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to communicate clearly at all levels, including with senior leadership

Alongside the technical skill set, we're looking for someone who is:

• Highly organised, able to juggle multiple initiatives against competing deadlines in a fast‑paced, agile environment
• Solution‑focused, always looking to streamline processes and cut unnecessary admin
• Calm under pressure, with a collaborative mindset
• Optimistic, with a genuine passion for the Reward field and a can‑do attitude
• Naturally creative — someone who brings ideas and isn't afraid to challenge the status quo

Desirable: experience within a media, creative or marketing agency environment, and comfort operating in a fast‑paced commercial setting.