Reward Consultant Job Description
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Reward Consultant Job Description
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a client team to provide a strong client service
- The ability or willingness to contribute to business development
- Partners with Global Reward Program leader to deliver annual performance & reward review process
- The design of reward and executive investment structures, including carried interest, co-investment, annual incentives and other long-term incentives
- Identify rewards related policy gaps and recommend policy modifications
- Grow our business opportunities with focus on Mobility
- Drive the development of mobility strategies for our clients
- Design of mobility and reward policies and processes
- Participate in international projects regarding design of rewards and performance management tools and concepts for our clients
- Provide consulting and advise on international reward structures
- Identifying and delivering fee opportunities from clients and targets
- Share plans and/or executive remuneration experience either in the professional services environment or in industry
- Understanding of relevant tax legislation in this field
- Team player the ability to work independently on an assignment
- Ability to produce high quality, technically accurate, well written work
- Strong technical ability surrounding the legislation and case law
Reward Consultant Job Description
- Grow Mercer client portfolio
- Initiate and drive reward related projects locally and regionally (examples include sales incentive, benefits harmonization, market competitiveness, job levelling and pricing, benefits sourcing)
- Educate the company on practices and needs for the countries in the region
- Escalate and resolve compensation or benefits concerns that may exist at country level to corporate rewards
- Collaboration in specific Corporate Compensation projects, besides being responsible of the annual Compensation processes for the cluster (salary increase, salary guides adjustment)
- Work to make the company chosen HR model efficient and effective, leverage the Shared Service Centerpo, Local HR and CoE
- Providing advice and guidance to HR team on specific reward related issues
- Manage the development of client facing, strategic communication deliverables across the breadth of pensions and reward specialisms including DB and DC pension schemes
- Help grow the communications revenue through managing and delivering business development activities, building relationships with internal colleagues and clients, meeting a sales target and implementing financial rigour on projects to maximise profitability
- Develop engaging communications strategies and plans, clear narratives and messaging for complex pensions and reward communications, conduct pulse surveys, focus groups and desktop analysis and design employee awareness campaigns
- Excellent team player with the ability to build effective relationships at all levels
- Experience of delegation
- Part-qualified actuary with experience advising companies and/or trustees in relation to defined benefit pensions
- Checking of calculations performed by more junior colleagues and drafting deliverables to clients
- Liaising with clients (internal and external) and third parties to deliver projects
- Developing more junior colleagues
Reward Consultant Job Description
- Design, develop and deliver high quality communications for targeted audiences using appropriate media, such as websites and other digital platforms, newsletters, booklets, member offer packs, pre-retirement communications and roadshow material
- Management of 4 direct reports supporting workload, developing their skills and capabilities, building their personal development plans with regular review meetings
- Demonstrate an understanding of change management approaches, and how they can be applied to pensions and reward change
- Measure engagement and obtain quality management data and feedback to determine future strategy
- Manage third party suppliers in the production of communications, including brand development, design, print, technical, implementation
- Build networks across the firm and develop colleagues’ understanding of the importance of employee engagement and communications ensuring we are engaged at the outset of projects
- Remuneration recommendations
- Lead the planning, coordination and delivery of annual salary and bonus review
- Competitive On Target Bonus
- 26-days paid holiday
- Supporting the leadership team in driving growth in the business
- Be able to work within a team and manage client relationships (both internal and external)
- Advising on commercial and practical issues related to the structure and design of employee equity and cash incentive plans
- Supporting companies with the implementation of equity and cash incentive plans in the UK and globally
- Advising on the tax and legal implications around the world of incentive plans, for both the employer and the employee
- Advising on the tax implications of incentives for mobile employees/expatriates
Reward Consultant Job Description
- Share & Save Schemes
- Total Reward Discounts
- Reviewing, designing and delivering an inspiring reward model by working close with our Systems & Insights Manager and wider people team
- Providing guidance, support and coaching to the colleagues as part of the projects
- Building effective relationships across the different levels of the business to understand and analyse the business needs
- Developing strong day to day relationships with your clients, who will call upon your deep technical expertise to help them develop appropriate, effective remuneration strategies
- Preparing and/or reviewing key Remuneration Committee papers, providing input and insight to in-house reward teams using client, market and industry knowledge
- Providing advice in relation to the design and implementation of bonus, deferral and long-term incentive arrangements for Board and below Board individuals, including for specific teams
- Designing executive pay strategies, linking pay to corporate performance, and taking into account regulatory and corporate governance requirements and institutional investor views
- Assist key clients on reward regulatory matters, including reward governance considerations and linking remuneration with risk, conduct and culture
- Managing high-profile and complex client accounts and relationships
- Developing strategies for the tax compliant and tax efficient delivery of incentives
- Drafting share plan and related employee communication documents (plan rules, FAQs, tax guides)
- Assistance with preparing technical updates to send to clients and contacts, in relation to the changes of tax and legal treatment of incentives
- Attending client service meetings and speaking to clients as required to discuss the advice
- Providing support on proposals and business development activity
Reward Consultant Job Description
- Providing advice to clients in relation to the communication of their reward frameworks and incentive programs to their people
- Undertaking executive and non-executive director pay benchmarking
- Assisting the leadership team in the development of business growth opportunities and wider strategic initiatives, including the identification and support of eminence-building activities, including seminars/client events etc, which enables you to build your networks in the market
- Providing guidance, management, development and coaching to junior members of the team as part of their projects and more broadly
- Carrying out the annual programme of FCA Compliance Monitoring
- Liaising with the Client and Engagement Acceptance (“take on”) Monitoring team in Cardiff on the selection of engagements for monitoring, reviewing their findings and communicating the results to the business
- Using your regulatory expertise to find opportunities to enhance the take-on monitoring process – to include more DTRB specific checks on FCA regulated engagements – and working with the team in Cardiff to implement them
- Drafting papers for and taking the minutes of the monthly board meetings
- Supporting the business with day to day risk queries such as Quality and Risk consultations during the client and engagement acceptance process
- Supporting the DTRB Risk and Compliance Senior Manager with various projects such as responding to regulatory change
- Track record of successfully providing reward solutions to a diverse and varied population within a demanding global, matrix environment
- Two years of experience providing analytical and technical actuarial services to clients
- Experience in a range of remuneration functions including but not limited to benchmarking and the development and implementation of remuneration strategies and policies
- Detailed knowledge and experience with global HR consultancy market pricing methodologies
- Minimum 8 years of successful experience in adding value to client business results (ideally in a consulting role)
- Strong market knowledge and established local network