Benefits Specialist - London, United Kingdom - Makepeace Ltd

Makepeace Ltd

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Key responsibilities

Pay, Reward and Benefits Specialist

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.

To be responsible within HR for collaborative work with payroll and pensions colleagues,

driving take-up by ensuring benefits are clear and easily accessible including ability to sign up for schemes and consideration of total benefits statements.

To work collaboratively with the resourcing lead to develop recruitment and retention strategies for hard to fill roles, working closely with HR colleagues and managers and using regular benchmarking and labour market intelligence to enable the council to remain competitive.

To review the reward and benefits offer and ensure it is modern and competitive and aligns with the council's objectives and priorities and to provide oversight of the council's approach to job evaluation, maintaining consistency and fairness.

Working collaboratively with colleagues, partners and other stakeholders to help build an organisation that attracts and retains talents and develop our reputation as a successful council delivering great value for its residents.

Contribute to the development and implementation of 'Be Islington' to support the achievement of the council's vision.

Develop and implement a flexible total reward strategy and approach for the Council that recognises the varying expectations of a modern, diverse and inclusive workforce, and better aligns reward with organisational values and performance.

To provide oversight of the council's approach to job evaluation, maintaining consistency and fairness.

To explore opportunities and lead on the development and management of financial and non-financial recognition schemes and frameworks.

Work with colleagues to design and deliver a reward and recognition framework that supports the achievement of appropriate behaviours and high performance.

Leadership

To drive positive cultural change, embodying and promoting the values and behaviours of the council and empowering staff to reach their full potential.

Ensure that the performance and development framework is effective for all staff.

To lead on and ensure the effective implementation of corporate initiatives and transformation programmes that cut across the whole or part of the council's activities.

Resources and Financial management

Ensure effective Financial Management, cost controls and income maximisation in an ever changing environment, fluctuating demands and priorities.

Ensure resources are well managed and effectively deployed to the best possible effects assuring value for money in all activities.

Compliance

Ensure legal, regulatory and policy compliance under GDPR, Health and Safety and in area of your specialism identifying opportunities and risks and escalating where appropriate.

Job Type:
Permanent

Salary:
£51,783.00-£54,825.00 per year

Benefits: