Benefits & Reward Advisor

Job Description

Mott MacDonald

Position location: Croydon, UK / Cambridge, UK / Glasgow, UK / Brighton, UK
Recruiter contact: Alice Roostan

We’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy.
Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.

A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs.

We are proud to be a one of Glassdoor’s top employers to work for in the UK, as well as being recognised as a Top Inclusive Company in the UK.

Our values: Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive, Excellence.

About the business unit

Mott MacDonald’s support services are the driving force behind our organisation enabling us to run efficiently and effectively. The team works collaboratively to offer specialist advice, best practice and technology to all areas of our business specifically designed for our global reach.

Overview of role
Mott MacDonald strives to build processes and policies that ensure a consistent and fair approach to reward and benefits across the group. As part of enhancing our capability and ability to remain competitive in our chosen marketers we are seeking a Reward & Benefits advisor to support on all day-to-day aspects of the employee reward and benefit programmes.

The Reward & Benefits advisor will form part of the HR community, and work closely with the Reward Manager, Reward Centre of Excellence, as well as the Regional HR teams to deliver compensation and benefit support across the UK and Europe.

As well as acting as the first point of contact for queries related to reward, benefits, and compensation, the Reward & Benefits advisor will help to deliver the cyclical activities in region, support and advise HR teams and managers on all relevant matters and best practice whilst ensuring regional compliance with global frameworks, governance, and policies.

Main responsibilities:

• Lead on benefit process and administration including the annual enrolment and benefit renewals and support in key annual reward processes including salary and bonus reviews
• Build relationships with appointed benefit/insurance vendors and brokers
• Drive employee awareness and understanding of all reward and benefit programs, including development of communication
• Manage the group income protection scheme
• Review benefit related documentation and templates to ensure accuracy and compliance
• Assist with participation in salary and benefit surveys, including completion and submission, data collection and analysis to evaluate and make recommendations where appropriate.
• Support the reward manager in analysing data/feedback to identify trends, gaps, opportunities for improvement
• Continually analyse current administration processes and suggest improvements to enhance the overall employee and administrative experience
• Work closely with key stakeholders including, but not limited to, the HR Shared services, People Systems team, payroll and external third parties
• Work closely with the wellbeing team on enhancing the wellbeing campaigns by communicating the relevant benefits available
• Assist with monthly payroll and benefit reconciliations
• Assist with tax year-end in line with HMRC reporting requirements, including P11D’s
• Reviewing monthly reports to ensure compliance with National Minimum Wage and Living Wage
• Providing support on a range of ad-hoc reward and benefits projects
• Maintain an awareness of market information on current and future reward and benefit developments including those arising as a result of legislative changes and legal requirements

Candidate specification:
The Reward & Benefits Advisor will ideally be CIPD qualified with previous experience in a Reward/benefits role.

• Ability to build effective working relationships with stakeholders at all levels of the business
• Strong organisational capability, ability to meet deadlines, prioritise, be accurate and able to manage large volumes of work
• Flexibility and enthusiasm with a professional and positive approach
• Ability to be proactive and think ahead
• Solid data, reporting and analytical experience and be able to manipulate and present data for senior stakeholders.
• Experience of using a range of MS office packages and HR database systems
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to interpret data.
• Willingness to deliver presentations and training as needed

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

Agile working

Happy to talk Flexible Working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.

Financial wellbeing

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.

Lifestyle

• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.

Enhanced family and carers leave

• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.

Learning and development

• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

• Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
• Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.

Apply now, or for more information about our application process, click here.