Financial Analyst – Rewards & Benefits in Birmingham

Are you a Financial Analyst who would be interested in broadening your skills and move into a role that utilises your analyst knowledge whilst focusing on Reward & Benefits, which sits within our HR Team? We have an exciting permanent opportunity for a Financial Analyst – Reward & Benefits to join our Compensation & Benefits team. Known internally as a Reward & Benefits Analyst, this role reports into our Head of Reward, and is an Office Flexible position based at our head office in Birmingham City Centre.

In this varied and challenging role, you will play a key role in supporting the Director of Compensation & Benefits and Head of Reward through the provision of reward-based employee data and analysis. You’ll provide robust and auditable data systems to support the corporate bonus process. You will support and run the data and systems design for annual pay reviews across our head office, retail staff and retail management teams.

You will be well rewarded:

• 33% discount across all our brands.
• 20% family and friend’s discount Annual Bonus Scheme.
• Buy up to an extra 2 weeks holiday.
• A pension that pays, where we’ll more than match your contributions (x1.5 of your contributions, up to a maximum of 5% of your salary).
• Private healthcare, dental plan, cycle-to-work, and keep-fit schemes.
• 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays.

The Opportunity – Financial Analyst – Reward & Benefits:

General: Through detailed and accurate data analysis, you will support the Compensation & Benefits team in the following activities:

• Responsible for the completion of external salary/benefits/pay benchmarking surveys, working with the Head of Reward to ensure data is accurate and reflective of the Company’s organisation structure.
• Manage the monthly process of company car checks, understanding and ensuring the HR system data aligns with corresponding Fleet data.
• As part of an evaluation panel, complete job role evaluations for new and existing roles.
• Produce and analyse regular structured HR data reports across the following areas: Expenses, Smart Fuel, Benefit Eligibility.
• Take a proactive approach to investigate and resolve any anomalies in HR data.
• Carry out any ad-hoc data analysis as requested by the Director of Compensation & Benefits and the Head of Reward.

Bonus: Work with the Head of Reward to calculate and ensure accuracy of Company bonus scheme payments:

• Calculating bonus payments for head office employees, ensuring payments are accurate, authorised and passed for payment in line with the scheme rules.
• Developing & maintaining a robust and auditable system for attributing both employees & their relevant earnings to the correct bonus schemes.
• Provide quarterly forecasts to the Finance team of potential bonus costs.

Annual Salary Reviews: Support the Head of Reward in delivering annual salary reviews across hourly and salary roles on a cyclical basis:

• Provide analytical reporting and data support, to ensure the accurate and timely implementation of pay reviews.

What you’ll need to bring to this Financial Reporting Analyst – Reward & Benefits role:

• Highly numerate, detail focussed and adept at analysis.
• Ability to work on own initiative and to strict deadlines.
• Excellent Excel / data management and presentation skills.
• Ability to interpret data and resolve data queries.
• Prior experience of managing large databases is essential.
• High level of integrity to ensure confidentiality.
• Prior experience of job evaluation preferred but not essential.
• Knowledge of HR Systems and Data is preferred.

Qualifications:

• A-Levels or equivalent.
• CIPD qualification preferred but not essential.

What makes Mitchells & Butlers a great place to work? At M&B we value the unique perspectives each person brings. We believe that by fostering a culture of inclusion, respect, and allyship, we create a sense of belonging, engagement and teamwork which are essential to delivering great guest experiences.

Closing date: Monday 1st June at 11:59pm.

Compensation: Competitive salary.