Executive Reward Strategy Lead

We’re BDO, an accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions entrepreneurial organisations need to navigate today’s changing world. We work with the companies that are Britain’s economic engine – ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high‑growth businesses that fuel the economy - and directly advise the owners and management teams that lead them.

Our Tax team thrives on keeping busy. Friendly, driven and diverse, they service our clients across the country and around the world. By providing expertise in many different specialist areas of tax, they collaborate across BDO to deliver wider business solutions. From meeting clients’ evolving business needs to managing changes to legislation, there are always fresh challenges to face in the Tax team. If you’re after a career that will keep you on your toes, we’ll give you the autonomy to drive your career forward.

Leading organisations trust us because of the quality of our advice. That quality grows from a thorough understanding of their business, and that understanding comes from working closely with them and building long-lasting relationships.

You’ll be someone who is both comfortable working proactively and managing your own tasks, as well as confident collaborating with others and communicating regularly with senior managers, directors, and BDO’s partners to help businesses effectively. You’ll be encouraged to identify and draw attention to opportunities for enhancing our delivery and providing additional services to organisations we work with.

Part of our Global Employer Services division, Strategic Reward Advisory takes pride in working with entrepreneurial, fast growing businesses to help them engage and incentivise their workforce. The projects are wide-ranging, collaborative and often novel - with bespoke solutions required to solve complex problems. You’ll form a critical part of a unified team, gaining exposure to colleagues and clients at all levels right from day one. This is not a traditional Reward consulting role – it's ambition, efficacy and approach that matter most. You’ll be expected to navigate ambiguous and charged challenges independently, while also delivering best-in-class solutions that incorporate elements from beyond your own domain.

We welcome applications from those with broader HR and business strategy experience, with a keen curiosity to explore Reward.

Responsibilities:

• Providing Reward advisory services to a wide range of clients
• Helping clients develop compensation strategies for their Executive Team and wider employee population(s) from first principles
• Translating strategies into practical Reward frameworks incorporating market benchmarking, financial modelling and corporate governance compliance
• Designing short-term and long-term incentive plans that are aligned with clients’ strategic business objectives and culture
• Dealing with all matters relating to the management of a portfolio of existing clients
• Developing and owning the go-to-market approach and business performance of a key market segment (e.g., FinTech)
• Providing assistance to senior members of staff in both client work and in the management of the group, as appropriate
• Pro-actively managing their own workload, communicating with directors/partners on a regular basis

We’re looking for someone with:

• Demonstrable professional experience in a remuneration-related role - within reward consulting or inhouse is preferred but not essential
• The ability to work independently under pressure and ambiguity, building an answer if it doesn’t exist
• Strong commercial acumen, alongside a keen awareness of the broader impact of Reward on business performance, HR, tax etc.
• Robust analytical skills and experience in research and data manipulation and modelling to derive actionable insights
• Excellent written and verbal communication, and proficiency in MS Office (Excel and PowerPoint)
• Focus on producing high quality outputs and attention to detail
• Excellent interpersonal skills and relationship building with both internal and external stakeholders

Desirable:

• An in-depth technical knowledge of executive remuneration and/or broad-based rewards, including pay benchmarking, bonus and equity incentive plan design and performance monitoring, reward strategy, corporate governance and remuneration reporting, job evaluation and grading, gender pay gap reporting, wellbeing, and recognition etc.
• Knowledge of how market data surveys work is a plus
• Interest in mentoring and coaching more junior staff
• Educated to degree level, ideally in business, human resources, law, accounting, finance or a related field (or equivalent experience)

You’ll be able to be yourself; we’ll recognise and value you for who you are and celebrate and reward your contributions to the business. We’re committed to agile working, and we offer every colleague the opportunity to work in ways that suit you, your teams, and the task at hand.

At BDO, we’ll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, and we have programmes, resources, and frameworks that provide clarity and structure around career development.

Mutual support and respect is one of BDO’s core values and we’re proud of our distinctive, people-centred culture. From informal success conversations to formal mentoring and coaching, we’ll support you at every stage in your career, whatever your personal and professional needs.

Our agile working framework helps us stay connected, bringing teams together where and when it counts so they can share ideas and help one another. At BDO, you’ll always have access to the people and resources you need to do your best work.

We know that collaboration is the key to creating value for the companies we work with and satisfying experiences for our colleagues, so we’ve invested in state-of-the-art collaboration spaces in our offices. BDO’s people represent a wealth of knowledge and expertise, and we’ll encourage you to build your network, work alongside others, and share your skills and experiences. With a range of multidisciplinary events and dedicated resources, you’ll never stop learning at BDO.

At BDO, we help entrepreneurial businesses to succeed, fuelling the UK economy. Our success is powered by our people, which is why we’re always finding new ways to invest in you. Across the UK thousands of unique minds continue to come together to help companies we work with to achieve their ambitions.

We’ve got a clear purpose, and we’re confident in our future, because we’re adapting and evolving to build on our strengths, ensuring we continue to find the right combination of global reach, integrity and expertise. We shape the future together with openness and clarity, because we believe in empowering people to think creatively about how we can do things better.