Pay Reward - London, United Kingdom - Eden Brown Synergy

Eden Brown Synergy
Eden Brown Synergy
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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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Pay Reward & Benefits Specialist


I am working with a Public Sector Organisation based in Islington who are looking for a Pay Rewards & Benefits Specialist on a permanent basis.

The role is full time, to start ASAP and paying up to £54,825 p/a.

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Job Purpose
We're determined to make Islington fairer.

To create a place where everyone, whatever their background, has the opportunity to reach their potential and enjoy a good quality of life.


We also have an ambitious goal - to be the best council in the country - with every employee clear about the part they play and inspired, focused and supported to give their very best.


We want to build an organisation where employees feel valued, inspired and empowered to help us achieve our goals and provide the best services possible to our residents.

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Duties and Responsibilities

  • To lead on the design and ongoing delivery of pay and grading structures, benefits strategy and reward and recognition schemes.
  • To lead and provide strategic direction to the development of pay, performance management, reward, recognition and benefits strategies, policies and systems, ensuring the adoption of best practice and alignment to the objectives of a high performing modern council.
  • To act as the council's expert on remuneration, providing high quality consultancy advice to HR and others within the council on pay, reward and benefits ensuring practice is fair and equitable and in line with the reward strategy, local, regional and national agreements and e.g. HMRC regulations.
  • To lead on pay negotiations (as delegated) with the council's trade unions, including reporting to the Executive and associated committees such as Audit and Scrutiny Committees as appropriate and production and presentation of e.g. the council's pay policy statement, gender pay gap data.
  • To be the council's expert on pay legislation, negotiating bodies and frameworks for e.g. equal pay, gender pay, minimum wage, London Living Wage, holiday pay, to protect the council from legacy or future risks, ensuring legislative and other case law changes are monitored and implemented in a timely way to minimise risk and cost.

Skills & Knowledge

  • Substantial experience of leading on pay and reward matters within a complex, unionised organisation, (including strategy development, negotiations and implementation).
  • Experience of leading on the delivery of advice, guidance, both within the HR service and to others within the Council on remuneration, overall reward management; employee benefits and strategic management of the Council's job evaluation scheme.
  • Monitoring, analysis and interpreting HR management information to inform pay and reward strategies.
  • Assessment or provision of benefit packages.
  • Knowledge of local authority pay arrangements including pension provision.
  • Ability to benchmark salary and other data, plus cost of benefits, to assess and devise programmes that best fit the council.
  • Criteria description
  • Ability to understand, assimilate, interpret, present and clearly communicate complex information.
  • Strong writing and presentation skills to prepare business cases and informational materials on compensation and benefits plans for employees.
  • Ability to create and build effective relationships with a range of senior managers, stakeholders and professional staff.
  • Strong interpersonal and negotiating skills with the ability to build credibility and maintain effective working relationships both internally within HR and the wider council, with trade unions and externally with other employers, government departments and professional associations.
Thank you

Priyanka Sharma(Eden Brown Synergy)

Eden Brown Synergy is an equal opportunities employer.
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