Reward Partner in Slough

Join our Performance & Reward team and help deliver competitive, well-governed remuneration across an investment banking environment—balancing commercial outcomes with regulatory expectations and strong controls.

This role involves handling high volumes of sensitive personal data and requires a strong understanding of GDPR, confidentiality, and robust data controls.

What you’ll do

• Own delivery of the annual compensation review and year-end processes for relevant populations (including timelines, guidance, modelling support, reporting and communications).
• Coordinate bonus and incentive processes (including in-year and year-end awards), ensuring accuracy, documentation and adherence to governance and controls.
• Support incentive plan activity and annual salary budget planning, partnering closely with Finance to monitor accruals and deliver clear, decision-ready MI.
• Manage deferred compensation arrangements (e.g., deferred cash and phantom equity-style awards), coordinating deferral schedules, documentation, leavers and vesting events with internal and external stakeholders.
• Support promotion and performance cycles, ensuring reward outcomes align to policy, budget and governance expectations.
• Lead annual benchmarking activity (job matching, market data submission and analysis) to inform pay positioning and decision-making.
• Maintain and embed reward and remuneration policies, ensuring they are practical for the business and aligned to applicable regulatory requirements and internal governance.
• Support risk-taker identification activity (e.g., MRT/identified staff), including identification, communications, training and ongoing controls.
• Prepare remuneration reporting and disclosures (e.g., IFPR remuneration disclosures and Remuneration Policy Statement content), ensuring outputs are accurate, consistent and governance-ready.
• Support delivery of regulatory and policy change in partnership with HR, Compliance, Risk and the business.
• Monitor relevant remuneration-related regulatory developments and engage with external advisors/industry forums to keep practices current.
• Provide audit and risk support for reward activity, maintaining strong documentation, controls and an end-to-end audit trail.
• Oversee MI production for senior stakeholders and governance forums (e.g., ExCo/Board/RemCo) as required.
• Produce bespoke analysis and reporting for HR leadership, front office management and control functions to support decisions and governance.
• Support reward systems and tooling (business requirements, testing/UAT, process controls and issue resolution) to ensure accurate end-user outcomes.
• Partner with Global Mobility on internationally mobile populations, including reward inputs and governance considerations.
• Contribute to benefits and wellbeing programmes in partnership with Payroll and Benefits colleagues.

What we’re looking for

• Proven reward/compensation experience, ideally within investment banking or wider financial services.
• Strong analytical capability and data discipline—able to work with complex datasets and produce accurate, well-controlled MI.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills (e.g., pivots, lookups, robust modelling); strong PowerPoint/Word skills are a plus.
• Comfortable managing multiple workstreams and tight deadlines, especially through year-end compensation cycles.
• Proactive self-starter who takes ownership, challenges constructively and continuously improves processes and controls.
• Strong project management skills with the ability to drive process change, system enhancements and stakeholder alignment.
• Confident communicator with experience working with senior stakeholders, able to translate analysis into clear, practical recommendations.
• Strong risk and control mindset—able to design, document and operate effective controls and governance across reward processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or comparable work experience.

We are an equal opportunities employer and recruit on merit in line with the Equality Act 2010. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates and are happy to make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.