Job Description

We expect you to manage salary reviews, PRP payments and bonus arrangements, leading the quarterly pay review process and preparing board reports. You will lead and manage the transactional delivery of our benefits, including the holiday flexing process. You will work closely with the reward manager to review and evaluate our offer. Be the point of escalation for all benefits enquiries, manage monthly and annual activity linked to benefits, manage external relationships, and interpret and manage legislation changes. You will work with our finance and ICT teams to manage expenses processes and audits to ensure we are compliant.

You will manage our pension and life assurance schemes, ensuring that we follow guidelines and processes. Interpret pension legislation changes and how they impact us, regularly reviewing our pensions with our finance team, support them with the monitoring and management of pension liabilities. Together with the reward manager, you will lead financial wellbeing and pension education work across the business, manage and coordinate the internal job evaluation process, offering support and guidance on pay benchmarking data.

You will use data to inform discussion and debate, presenting issues and concerns. You will provide data for annual reports and the gender pay gap, produce a quarterly report for payroll, benefits, and expenses, whilst ensuring compliance in all that we do. You should take a proactive approach in your work, anticipating situations and capturing opportunities to continuously improve and develop the service for our customers.

This position can be based in our offices in Wolverhampton (WV10), Tewkesbury (GL20), or Chipping Sodbury (BS37) but you would be required to travel between locations.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Educated to degree level and CIPP and CIPD qualified Experience managing and delivering E2E payroll and managing a small payroll team Evidence of working in challenging and changing environments Experience managing pension schemes, including auto-enrolment Ability to manage and organise numerous competing priorities Strong commercial awareness, understanding risk and business impact Excellent IT skills, including payroll systems In-depth knowledge and understanding of legislation relating to pay, pensions and benefits Strong analytical, numerical, and written skills Resilience, comfortable working under pressure whilst maintaining attention to detail Flexibility, strong influencing skills and excellent communication skills High energy and enthusiasm, a driver of results and outcomes A continuous improvement mindset