Payroll, Compensation and Benefits Specialist

Payroll, Compensation and Benefits Specialist

An excellent opportunity has arisen with a leading financial services organisation for a specialist within Payroll, Compensation and Benefits. This is the chance to be part of an amazing HR Team and own payroll, compensation and benefits globally.

Role and Responsibilities:

1. Accurately and timely management of UK and international payrolls. Liaising with Finance, HR & Executive team and international providers.
2. Provide advice and information to employees relating to payroll both in the UK and globally (with the support of external expertise).
3. Support the coordination, communication and management of the annual award and organisation share scheme.
4. General people administration, producing employee letters and supporting HR programs and initiatives.
5. Ensure that the administration of all global benefit and pension plans are accurate, compliant, and efficient, raising problems and seeking resolution directly.
6. Maintain employee data, monitor the integrity and management of the people data and support/advise on correct record keeping and reporting.
7. Conduct in-depth analysis of compensation data, including global salary benchmarking, and identifying market trends.
8. Supply accurate management information to the Executive team, external auditors and any other stakeholders in a timely and efficient manner.
9. Support with ad hoc projects for the Executive team.
10. Provide recommendations for continual improvements based on market comparisons to ensure competitiveness on total compensation packages.

Essential Skills and Experience:

1. Experience and thorough knowledge of employee benefits and pensions.
2. Experience administering benefits and managing supplier relationships.
3. CIPD Level 7 or equivalent qualification/experience.
4. International experience.
5. Sufficiently developed analytical skills with the ability to analyse a variety of data, determine validity, draw conclusions and make recommendations in a clear, concise and easily understandable manner.
6. Highly numerate with a keen attention to detail.
7. Personable with experience of working in partnerships with stakeholders, managers and external partners.

Desirable:

1. Working knowledge of current UK payroll legislation.
2. Working knowledge and experience in annual salary and bonus review processes.
3. Experience of working with private company EBT incentive schemes.
4. Employee Relations experience.
5. Business level fluency in Spanish (both written and verbal).

Details:

Excellent basic salary and full corporate benefits package.