Reward and Reporting Specialist in Newcastle upon Tyne

As a Reward and Reporting Specialist, you’ll play a key role in delivering our reward and people reporting strategies, ensuring they are accurate, compliant, and insight led. Acting as a first line specialist, you’ll provide expert support across reward operations, pay and job structures, legislative requirements, and people data and reporting.

Working closely with the Reward team, wider People function, Finance, and external benefit providers, you’ll help ensure reward processes, systems, and data are robust and well governed. You’ll translate complex people and reward data into clear, meaningful insight that supports informed decision making across the business.

This role also has a strong focus on continuous improvement. You’ll proactively identify opportunities to enhance processes, improve data quality, and increase automation and efficiency, helping to build stronger people data capability and insight led conversations throughout the organisation.

About You

You’ll be an analytically minded reward or people professional with a strong attention to detail and a passion for using data to drive insight. You’re confident working with complex datasets and can clearly communicate findings to non-technical stakeholders.

You’ll bring a solid understanding of reward principles and people reporting, along with experience working in a regulated or complex environment. Comfortable balancing operational delivery with continuous improvement, you’ll enjoy working collaboratively across teams and with external suppliers to deliver high quality outcomes.

You’ll ideally have:

• Experience in a Reward, HR, or People Reporting role
• Sound knowledge of reward principles, pay structures, job evaluation, and benchmarking
• Experience producing people MI, dashboards, and insight for leadership audiences
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate data into clear, actionable insight
• High levels of accuracy, data governance awareness, and confidentiality
• Experience using HR systems and reporting tools (ideally Workday, Power BI, or similar)
• An understanding of statutory and legislative reward reporting requirements

If you’re motivated by data, enjoy improving how reward and people information is used, and want to make a meaningful impact within a collaborative People team, this could be the role for you.

The Newcastle Building Society Group comprises of Newcastle Building Society, Manchester Building Society, Newcastle Financial Advisers and Newcastle Strategic Solutions. Our purpose, connecting our communities with a better financial future inspires and directs our activities.

As an inclusive employer and member owned mutual, we aim to reflect the diverse communities we serve and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We believe everyone should feel valued, respected, and celebrated for who they are, we want colleagues to feel this is a place they belong. A place to be you.

Financial

• Corporate bonus scheme (on target 5%, up to a maximum 10%)
• Pension scheme (up to 9% employer contribution)
• Annual performance related pay reviews
• Colleague mortgage scheme
• Electric car salary sacrifice scheme
• Life assurance (4x salary) and income protection
• Access to our financial advisers
• Access to a range of high street and online discounts

Work/Life Balance

• A 35-hour weekly contract - We are happy to talk flexible working and welcome discussions
• 25 days’ annual leave + bank holidays (rises to 30 with length of service)
• The option to buy and sell up to 5 days’ holiday
• Hybrid working (typically 3 days’ home based)
• Above statutory family leave entitlement - 3 months full pay, 3 months half pay, regardless of gender or route to parenthood

Health and Wellbeing

• Access to a health cash plan through a Medicash scheme
• Access to an employee assistance programme
• Free onsite gym at our Cobalt head office and access to discounted gyms
• Two paid volunteering days each year
• Cycle to work scheme

Recognising there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to recruitment, we’re committed to ensuring every candidate has the opportunity to showcase their full potential throughout the recruitment process. We strive to make our processes as accessible as possible, if there are any ways in which we can provide support or make adjustments, we would love to discuss this with you, you can contact your Recruiter for this vacancy.