Total Reward Advisor

This role will act as the main contact for Total Reward within the People Team at Costain, with responsibility for compiling and analysing data, and providing insights that support the Total Reward Strategy.  The role will be responsible for the delivery of cyclical reward activities, the ongoing maintenance of the company’s job architecture, as well as working collaboratively with the HR Business Partners, People Services Team and HR Systems Team to provide day-to-day advice about the Company’s Total Reward package.  

The Total Reward Advisor will continually look to make process improvements that offer greater efficiency and effectiveness that helps drive forward our people agenda.

The ideal candidate will have confident interpersonal skills, have excellent attention to detail and will be able to adapt to change quickly. 

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

•  Act as an escalation point for all Total Reward queries that can not be resolved within the People Services Team
• Supporting the annual salary review process including system configuration, data validation and reporting.  
• Administration of the Senior Management Bonus Scheme including issuing bonus invitation letters, maintaining bonus participation records and monthly reporting to Finance.
• Job evaluation using Willis Towers Watson methodology and ongoing maintenance of the job architecture  
• Completing salary survey submissions and provision of benchmarking data using Willis Towers Watson and other surveys to support compensation processes
• Support legislative disclosures such as gender pay gap and equal pay reporting
• Participate in the delivery of Total Reward sessions for employees to increase employee engagement.  
• Participate in Total Reward Projects that drive the continuous improvement of our people agenda 
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Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

Essential

• Experience in a HR or Reward role
• Strong knowledge and confidence in the use of Microsoft Excel
• Excellent analytical skills, high data accuracy and attention to detail
• Critical thinker with a keen focus on continuous improvement and ability to solve problems.
• Strong interpersonal skills, ability to communicate with people at all levels with confidence and quickly build networks
• Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills. Ability to work flexibly within tight deadlines.
• Experience of using HR Systems 

 

Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.