Reward Manager - 12 month FTC in City of London

LGT Wealth Management UK LLP is a UK-based partnership, wholly owned by the private banking group LGT. Our aim is to offer a fresh approach to wealth management. Our head office is based in London, with a presence in Edinburgh, Jersey, Leeds, Birmingham, and Bristol. Our mission is to create long-term value for all stakeholders, and our culture encourages individuals to generate, develop, and implement ideas that strengthen our business.

Our HR team drives people development, culture, and commercial value across the business. We work in close partnership with business leaders, colleagues, and committees, supporting every stage of our people’s experience - from recruitment and onboarding to compensation, development, and wellbeing. Our Reward team focuses on delivering market-leading benefits and developing progressive reward programmes.

Brief Role Objective

As our Reward Manager, you will act as the subject matter expert for all payroll and benefits management across our UK and Jersey entities. You will lead on the day-to-day delivery of our payroll, benefits, and pension offerings, managing relationships with key vendors including ADP, Mercer Marsh, and Aviva. You will also play a central role in supporting and driving reward-related change and implementation projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Payroll: Oversee and reconcile all monthly payroll submissions across UK & Jersey entities, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
• Process monthly payroll, benefits, and pension reports, coordinating with benefits and pension providers for seamless administration.
• Manage statutory payroll reporting requirements, ensuring full compliance with regulatory standards.
• Deliver payroll and benefit inductions to new joiners and act as the primary point of contact for all related queries.
• Provide expert guidance on parental leave, salary sacrifice, and HMRC-related matters.
• Manage key relationships with benefits and pension vendors, proactively identifying and resolving discrepancies.
• Oversee annual enrolment and rate renewals for our flexible benefits platform (Darwin).
• Lead the testing and rollout of our annual benefits selection window on Darwin.
• Administer the annual Holiday Buy/Sell scheme through our benefits portal.

Reward:

• Work closely with the Head of Reward & HR Transformation, Head of Business Partnering, and Finance to manage our operational annual compensation review processes.
• Provide and adapt compensation review data analysis, highlighting key trends.
• Take a lead role with the Firm’s annual compensation benchmarking and market data exercise analysis.
• Oversee internal salary banding, job profile levelling, and role coding.
• Partner with Group Reward to provide baseline and budgetary information as required.

Regulatory:

• Conduct annual pay gap compensation data analysis and contribute to payroll reporting to support regulatory compliance.
• Action ad hoc visa-related payroll regulatory requirements.
• Lead payroll and benefits audit processes as required.

Projects & Committees:

• Support preparations for the EU Equal Pay Transparency Act.
• Contribute to the design of equal pay analysis in partnership with Group Reward.
• Maintain and develop our UK Compensation & Pay Gap dashboards.
• Play an active role in the wellbeing committee, Enrich.

Your Profile

Key Skills and Technical Requirements

• Proven experience in managing monthly UK payroll submissions.
• Proficient with Microsoft Excel; exposure to Power BI or people analytics tools is advantageous.
• Experience managing or coordinating external relationships with benefit and pension providers.
• Familiarity with flexible benefits platforms (e.g. Darwin) is an asset.
• Understanding of compensation review and salary benchmarking methodologies.

Your Core Competencies and Approach

• Excellent stakeholder management skills.
• Collaborative team player who thrives in a dynamic environment.
• Highly proactive and hands-on.
• Excellent organisational skills, with strong attention to detail.
• Willingness to learn and develop expertise.

Do you feel addressed? Then simply fill out the online application. We look forward to getting to know you.