Senior Reward Analyst

Why we’re hiring:

We are looking for a Senior Reward Analyst to join our Global Reward and Transformation team. Reporting to the Global Head of Reward & Transformation, you will play a key role in the design, development and administration of reward programs that attract, motivate, and retain critical talent in our organisation.  Working with other team members, you will foster a fair and transparent pay philosophy focused on diversity and inclusiveness.

What you’ll be doing:

• Support WPP’s Reward team on day-to-day management, analysis, and communication of WPP’s Compensation Programs on a global scale.
• Collect, analyse, and interpret compensation data, including pay levels, mix, prevalence / best practices to identify trends and improve competitive market positioning.
• Provide analytical support, formulate creative solutions, and deliver recommendations around Global Reward strategy, pay legislation and job architecture across the group.
• Able to filter through multiple streams of information and organise it in a cohesive and clear manner.  
• Use advanced Power BI and Excel skills to create complex statistical modelling to aid in financial budgeting, forecasting and analysis.
• Manage detailed records of plans/programs.
• Support large scale and complex projects to aid in the delivery of Group wide transformational programmes, specifically linked to compensation legislation and delivery of job architecture.
• Research and analyse market practices, maintain awareness of practices among competitors and of regulatory and business trends in compensation and organisational design.
• Coordinate with a wide range of stakeholders including WPP Finance, Tax, Legal and HR on transformation and regulatory aspects of programmes.
• Assist development of compensation related communications to employees regarding compensation plans, policies and program design.

What you’ll need:

• Experience as a Reward Analyst in a large, complex organisation.
• Theoretical and applied knowledge in Reward, HR and job architecture design principles.
• Analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving skills with ability to synthesize information and data from a variety of sources.
• Ability to translate data into insights.
• Demonstrable experience of supporting large scale projects and delivering successful outcomes.
• Advanced proficiency in Power BI and Microsoft Office Suite.

Who you are:

You’re open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are accepting: of new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.

You’re optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.

You’re extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.

What we’ll give you:

Passionate, inspired people – We promote a culture of people that do extraordinary work.

Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.

Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?