Manager - HR Compensation in London

Capital Group is seeking a highly skilled, strategically minded, and operationally strong rewards professional to join our global Compensation/Reward team to ensure Capital’s global compensation frameworks are optimized for the Europe and Asia markets. In this role, you will serve as a trusted advisor to HR, Talent Acquisition, and business leaders across Europe, APAC, and North America to support the design, governance, and execution of our global reward programs. This position blends compensation strategy, regulatory compliance, job architecture, analytics and systems expertise—ideal for someone who thrives in a fast‑paced, matrixed environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Regulatory Compliance & Pay Transparency
  • Partner with internal HR and Legal/Compliance teams and external consultants to inform and guide Capital’s approach to pay transparency and adherence with evolving global pay regulations.
  • Serve as a subject matter expert on EU and UK remuneration regulations, including UCITS, AIFM, IFPR, and related regimes; support Material Risk Taker (MRT) identification process.
  • Lead implementation and ongoing compliance with the EU Pay Transparency Directive and coordinate pay regulatory practices across Europe, APAC, and North America.
  • Manage the remuneration regulation annual cycle of activities, data gathering, and reporting.
• Global Compensation Strategy & Program Design
  • Manage global and regional salary structures, job architecture, leveling frameworks, and titles.
  • Partner with HR Business Partners on organizational design, role reviews, and job architecture initiatives.
  • Conduct benchmarking, market pricing, salary survey submissions, and competitive analysis across Europe, APAC, and North America.
  • Support global bonus/incentive schemes, including corporate profit‑sharing programs.
  • Provide expert insights, scenario modeling, and recommendations for hiring, promotions, and rewards.
  • Deliver training and communication on reward philosophies, practices, and programs.
• Compensation Operations, Technology & Innovation
  • Support global compensation cycles in Workday and drive process automation and efficiency.
  • Serve as a Workday Compensation, Advanced Compensation, and Job Catalogue subject matter expert, including configuration, testing, enhancements, and system governance.
  • Drive adoption of compensation analytics, dashboards, and market‑intelligence tools.
  • Identify opportunities for automation, simplification, continuous improvement, and modernization.
  • Lead or support multi‑market reward initiatives or projects such as pay transparency, annual review cycles, and job architecture.

Skills & Experience Required

• Deep knowledge of pay‑transparency requirements, global reporting, and financial‑services remuneration practices, including EU Pay Transparency Directive, UK gender pay‑gap reporting, UCITS, AIFMD, or IFPR.
• Experience managing annual compensation, bonus, and/or equity cycles.
• Strong understanding of reward practices across Europe, APAC; helpful if experience also includes North America reward practices.
• Experience with benchmarking, salary surveys, and job‑evaluation methodologies (e.g., WTW, Mercer, AON, McLagan, Radford).
• Advanced Excel skills and experience working with large datasets.
• Strong modeling skills across compensation structures, incentives, equity, and scenario planning.
• Workday Compensation or other HCM/compensation systems expertise preferred.
• Experience with pay equity software applications (Syndio, Trusaic, etc.) preferred.
• Experience with data visualization and BI tools (Tableau, Power BI) preferred.
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to translate complex data into clear insights.
• Highly organized with strong judgment, problem‑solving, and decision‑making capability.
• Ability to operate autonomously while collaborating effectively in a fast‑paced, matrixed environment.

Compensation & Benefits

In addition to a highly competitive base salary, per plan guidelines, restrictions and vesting requirements, you also will be eligible for an individual annual performance bonus, plus Capital’s annual profitability bonus and a retirement plan where Capital contributes 15% of your eligible earnings. Temporary positions in the United States are excluded from the above mentioned compensation and benefit plans.

Equal Opportunity Employment

We are an equal opportunity employer, which means we comply with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit discrimination when making all decisions about employment. As equal opportunity employers, our policies prohibit unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, sex (including gender and gender identity), pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship status, AIDS/HIV status, political activities or affiliations, military or veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, assault or stalking or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.