Compensation Coordinator

KBR is a global provider of differentiated, professional services and technologies delivered across a wide government, defense and industrial base. Drawing from its rich 100-year history and culture of innovation and mission focus, KBR creates sustainable value by combining engineering, technical and scientific expertise with its full life cycle capabilities to help our clients meet their most pressing challenges today and into the future.

KBR employs approximately 29,000 people worldwide (including our joint ventures), with customers in more than 80 countries, and operations in 40 countries, across two synergistic global businesses.

The Compensation Coordinator in PARC will support the payroll team by ensuring payroll operations run smoothly and follow best practices. The main goal is to help create a positive experience for both employees and the business.

Working closely with the PARC team and our onshore and offshore Finance teams, you will assist in compensation-related tasks for KBR UK entities, including FNC, STS, and DNTS. Your responsibilities will include helping with pre-payroll activities, maintaining employee records, triaging employee queries, and supporting the rollout of the new Workday Global payroll system.

This role is a great opportunity to build relationships with key internal stakeholders and develop your skills in payroll and compensation processes.

Responsibilities:

• Manage and execute all pre-payroll administrative tasks for pay cycles in FNCMTS, and DNTS.
• Ensure accurate processing of leavers, including termination payments, holiday calculations, redundancies and settlement agreements.
• Assist in calculating and processing family leave, overtime, bonuses, and all other ad-hoc pay adjustments.
• Aid in coordinating and implementing UK employee benefits.
• Provide support for global compensation and benefits projects.
• Reconcile and process the monthly Charity reports, working closely with Finance and the Charities Aid Foundation.
• Coordinate process enhancements within the compensation & benefits team to minimise duplications and streamline resource usage.
• Develop and maintain positive relationships with key stakeholders, including PARC, Finance, Lines of Business, and external vendors, while delivering exceptional customer service.
• Perform additional duties as required to support the Compensation & Benefits Manager.
• Oversee data management in systems to ensure accuracy and integrity of information.

Experience, Skills & Knowledge

• Experience of effectively processing/supporting payroll with a high degree of accuracy.
• Strong understanding of UK payroll and UK pay types.
• Understanding the key nuances of payroll e.g. pay types, pay codes, and pay frequencies.
• Experience and understanding of annual pay cycles; e.g. company-wide pay increases and bonus payments.
• Experience of payroll processes for salary sacrifice schemes, including pension, cycle to work, season ticket loans, childcare vouchers, and company vehicles (desirable).
• Intermediate excel knowledge including VLOOKUP's and pivot tables.
• Good standard of competence in Microsoft packages.
• Experience of managing information in databases.
• Understanding of UK employment law, compliance and the GDPR data protection.
• Understanding of security clearances and associated process (BPSS, SC, DV).
• Previous experience in payroll, finance, or banking (desirable).
• Previous experience with SAP, Microsoft Dynamics and/or Workday (desirable).

When you become part of the KBR team, your opportunities are endless. Through collaboration with our customers, we're defining tomorrow's challenges, then providing the solutions and services to overcome those challenges, always maintaining our commitment to total safety and reliability.

At KBR, we partner with government and industry clients to provide purposeful and comprehensive solutions with an emphasis on efficiency and safety. With a full portfolio of services, proprietary technologies and expertise, our employees are ready to handle projects and missions throughout their entire lifecycle, from planning and design to sustainability and maintenance. Whether at the bottom of the ocean or in outer space, our clients trust us to deliver the impossible on a daily basis.

Working at KBR means being rewarded for your contributions. In addition to competitive benefits and professional development, our people are empowered to use all their potential, creating meaningful change for themselves and our clients. We attract the best minds in the world because our expertise thrives on creativity, resourcefulness and collaboration. That is how we supply our clients with cutting-edge solutions and services.

As the needs of the world change, we're ready to respond and guide the way forward with strategic, sustainable, and technological advancements grounded in more than a century of practical application and execution.

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