Head of Pay and Reward

NET Recruit is searching the market for a Head of Pay and Reward to join a services business, located in the Leatherhead area.

You Role
While in this position your duties may include but are not limited to:

• Developing and implementing the total reward strategy, ensuring this aligns with business goals
• Designing competitive reward structures for pay, bonuses, benefits and incentives
• Leading activities surrounding job evaluation, market analysis and pay benchmarking in order to identify opportunities for improvement
• Managing the annual pay review process and incentive schemes
• Taking leadership of the reward and pay teams, managing their KPIs and providing training support where needed
• Reviewing and selecting team member benefits programs including pension and healthcare
• Promoting team member recognition initiatives to ensure fair compensation
• Collaborating with the system teams to develop reward dashboard and metrics, alongside trend information and analysis to influence key commercial and also market insight related decision making
• Overseeing payroll for all team members, ensuring that statutory payments and deductions are processed, and leading payroll and benefit system upgrades and implementations
• Submitting returns to HMRC and other regulatory bodies, and ensure compliance with HMRC and tax, employment and tax legislation
• Providing trend information and analysis to support
• Ensuring that appropriate controls are in place as well as audit trails and reconciliations

You MUST Have
Please apply ONLY if you meet the following criteria:

• Relevant qualification (CIPD/CIPP)
• Significant experience in managing both payroll and reward, including introducing new benefits, supplier engagement, conducting market comparisons and utilising job evaluation methodologies
• Exposure to working within a large, multi-site business within reward and payroll
• Excellent knowledge of payroll legislation, UK reward regulations, HMRC and pension schemes
• Good systems knowledge, including specific experience in using iTrent payroll and Wagestream
• Experience in change management, as well as payroll transitions and implementations
• Fantastic leadership capabilities, supplemented by sound communication and stakeholder engagement skills

Your Opportunity
This is a developing business that provides support services to their specific customer base, and pride themselves on being able to adapt to the everchanging, and sometimes complex needs of their customers. As the Head of Pay and Reward, the position holder will take full responsibility for developing the total reward strategy and drive change forwards, with the aim of attracting and retaining the best talent in the market. This is an exciting opportunity to have full visibility over all the compensation, benefits and renumeration and ensure these offerings are competitive. Alongside this, the position holder will be leading the end-to-end payroll cycle.

There will be a starting salary of potentially up to £80,000 for this role to accompany a renumeration package including, a generous bonus offering, car allowance and an attractive holiday entitlement, pension scheme, employee discount schemes, incentives and other perks. There will also be excellent training support and career progression opportunity to facilitate a culture of constant learning, development and success.

To express interest in this role and have a confidential chat, please reach out to:

Phoebe Jones - Recruitment Partner

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