Total Rewards Manager in London

Role in Our Mission

Driving the execution of global compensation, performance, benefits, and payroll programs in high-performance environments at NEXT Ventures. Partnering with HR, Finance, and leadership to deliver data-driven incentive modeling, performance analytics, compliant reward outcomes, and accurate, on-time payroll across regions. Ensuring pay-for-performance, governance excellence, and operational rigor across global teams.

Compensation & Total Rewards Execution

• Execute and maintain global compensation frameworks aligned with the firm's trading performance culture, innovation objectives, and growth mindset.
• Support the design and administration of compensation structures across trading, technology, research, and operations functions.
• Support the annual compensation cycle, including data preparation, bonus pool modeling support, calibration inputs, and executive compensation analytics.
• Administer short-term and long-term incentive programs (STI, LTIP, deferred compensation), ensuring accurate calculations, payouts, and documentation.
• Prepare compensation benchmarking, market analysis, and scenario modeling to support decisions by the CPO, CFO, and Executive Committee.
• Translate compensation strategy into detailed execution plans, tools, and guidelines for HRBPs and business leaders.

Performance Management & OKR Operations

• Operationalize the global performance management framework, including OKR tracking, review cycles, calibration data, and reporting.
• Support alignment of individual and team OKRs with trading strategies, business goals, and PnL outcomes through data analysis and reporting.
• Partner with HRBPs and senior leaders to define measurable performance metrics and scoring methodologies.
• Manage performance review timelines, system configuration, and data integrity across regions.
• Produce performance insights and analytics that directly inform compensation, promotion, and recognition outcomes.
• Act as the subject-matter expert for performance management systems (e.g., HiBob, Revolut), ensuring accuracy, consistency, and user adoption.

Benefits, Wellbeing & Retention Programs

• Execute and maintain global and regional benefits programs in alignment with retention objectives and local market practices.
• Conduct benefits benchmarking, cost analysis, utilization tracking, and vendor performance reviews.
• Support the rollout and continuous improvement of wellbeing initiatives covering physical, mental, and financial wellness.
• Prepare ROI analyses, utilization reports, and insights to inform benefits optimization decisions.

Payroll & Expatriate Mobility

• Oversee monthly payroll execution across APAC entities, ensuring full compliance with local statutory requirements, tax filings, and year-end reporting.
• Maintain payroll data accuracy across HRIS and payroll systems, and partner with Finance on reconciliations, accruals, and audits.
• Manage relationships with regional payroll vendors and statutory authorities, and resolve employee payroll queries with discretion.
• Lead the full work permit and employment pass lifecycle across APAC markets, including new applications, renewals, cancellations, and dependent passes.
• Track expatriate quotas, expiry timelines, and regulatory changes across APAC immigration frameworks to avoid lapses.
• Support relocation logistics and documentation alongside Talent Acquisition and People Ops.
• Prepare payroll dashboards, headcount cost reports, and mobility analytics for leadership review.

Governance, Compliance & Risk Management

• Ensure accurate execution of compensation, benefits, and payroll programs in compliance with local employment, tax, and regulatory requirements across SEA, South Asia, and EMEA.
• Maintain governance documentation, approval workflows, audit trails, and compensation and payroll records.
• Partner with Legal, Finance, and HRBPs to operationalize clawback, malus, and deferred compensation mechanisms.
• Support internal audits, regulatory reviews, and data requests related to compensation, benefits, payroll, and mobility.

What You Bring

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Human Resources, Finance, Economics, or a related discipline.
• 8+ years of progressive HR experience, including 5+ years in leadership roles across Total Rewards, Performance, or Payroll.
• Hands-on ownership of multi-country APAC payroll and end-to-end expatriate work permit management.
• Deep expertise in trading and investment compensation models (PnL-based, discretionary, deferred).
• Proven success designing OKR or performance frameworks in fast-scaling, data-driven environments.
• Working knowledge of APAC employment, tax, and immigration regulations across multiple jurisdictions.
• Strong financial modeling and analytical skills (Excel, Tableau, Power BI).
• Proficient in payroll software and HRIS platforms.
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills, adept at navigating executive and regional complexities.
• High integrity, discretion, and resilience in high-performance, confidential environments.

Your X-Factor

• Combines strategic vision with operational precision — designing reward and payroll systems that balance fairness, performance, and compliance.
• Understands the language of both finance and people, bridging data with motivation.
• Navigates regulatory and multi-country complexity with calm and clarity.
• Thrives in fast-moving environments where deadlines are non-negotiable.
• Champions a performance culture rooted in transparency, accountability, and continuous growth.