Reward Manager - 12 month FTC in London

LGT Wealth Management UK LLP is a UK-based partnership, wholly owned by the private banking group LGT, which is in turn owned by the Princely Family of Liechtenstein. Our aim is to offer a fresh approach to wealth management. We have a presence in Edinburgh, Jersey, Leeds, Birmingham and Bristol. Our mission is to create long-term value for all stakeholders. Our culture encourages individuals to generate, develop and implement ideas which will strengthen our business. Belonging, respect, integrity, conviction and entrepreneurship are our core values.

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 & onboarding to compensation, development and wellbeing. We are collaborative, commercial and agile - proactive ambassadors for LGT's culture.

Our Reward team focuses on delivering market leading benefits and developing progressive reward programmes, consistently enabling data/technology led standards in compensation, benchmarking, and analytics. The team plays a key role in our wider inclusion and wellbeing 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.
  • Process and record all benefit vendor invoices, ensuring accuracy and timely payment.
  • 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.
  • Keep the benefits portal updated with all starters, leavers, and compensation‐related changes.
  • 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.
  • Collate, validate, and submit annual compensation data to McLagan.
  • Partner with Group Reward to provide baseline and budgetary information.
• Regulatory
  • Conduct annual pay gap compensation data analysis.
  • Action ad hoc visa‐related payroll regulatory requirements.
  • Partner with Group HR and HRBP teams to manage international assignments.
  • 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.
  • Establish wellbeing and health‐based metrics aligned to the Firm's broader people strategy.
  • Support the rollout of Pension Governance initiatives.
  • 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.
• Experience working in a regulated environment, such as financial services, is helpful.

Your Core Competencies and Approach

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

Interested in the role? Complete the online application. We look forward to getting to know you.