Oakleaf Partnership is delighted to be partnering with a prestigious and highly successful professional services organisation in the search for a Reward Advisor to join their People team.
This organisation has built an outstanding reputation for excellence and works with a diverse portfolio of high-profile clients and stakeholders. The business places significant emphasis on attracting, retaining and rewarding exceptional talent, making reward a key component of its people strategy. This is an excellent opportunity for a reward professional looking to take ownership of core reward activities while working closely with senior leaders and People colleagues.
The Role
Reporting into the People leadership team, the Reward Advisor will play a key role in delivering and evolving the organisation's reward strategy. You will act as the subject matter expert across compensation, benefits and payroll, ensuring programmes remain competitive, compliant and aligned to business objectives.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Supporting the development and delivery of the reward strategy
- Leading annual salary and bonus review processes
- Managing compensation benchmarking and market analysis activities
- Providing reward insights and analytics to support business decision-making
- Overseeing employee benefits programmes, including pensions, healthcare and wellbeing offerings
- Managing relationships with external payroll providers to ensure accurate and timely payroll processing
- Advising leaders and stakeholders on reward-related matters and best practice
- Supporting reward governance, compliance and regulatory requirements
- Contributing to reward-focused projects, including pay structure reviews and role evaluation initiatives
- Supporting initiatives that promote fairness, transparency and inclusion across reward practices
About You
To be successful in this role, you will bring:
- Demonstrable experience within a reward-focused position, ideally within a professional services firm.
- Strong knowledge of reward principles, including salary benchmarking, role evaluation, benefits administration and incentive schemes.
- Excellent analytical and data interpretation skills
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing capabilities
- The ability to communicate reward concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Exceptional organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities
- Good understanding of reward compliance and employment legislation
Why Apply?
This role offers the chance to join a highly regarded organisation where reward is valued as a strategic driver of business success. You'll have genuine ownership, exposure to senior stakeholders and the opportunity to shape and enhance reward programmes within a cooperative and people-focused environment.
