Total Reward Advisor

Costain's People Experience and Reward team forms part of the wider People Function at Costain. The team is responsible for compensation, benefits, employee wellbeing, equality diversity & inclusion (EDI) and employee engagement to create an environment where our people are motivated to promote growth and delivery of personal and business excellence, both now and in the future.

• Act as an escalation point for all compensation queries into the MyHR Helpdesk that cannot be resolved within the People Services Team

• Support the Total Reward Business Partner to deliver the annual salary review, early careers salary review and promotion & exceptional increases processes including system configuration (Oracle HCM), data validation, reporting, query resolution and line manager briefings

• Administration of the Senior Management Bonus Scheme, issuing bonus invitation letters, maintaining bonus participation records, monthly reporting to Finance, bonus payout letters and calculations for payroll

• Evaluate job descriptions using Willis Towers Watson job evaluation methodology, providing salary benchmarking data and ongoing maintenance of the job architecture

• Completing salary survey submissions (Willis Towers Watson and other surveys)

• Calculate the gender pay gap and ethnicity pay gap for legislative reporting

• Participate in the delivery of total reward presentations to increase colleagues understanding of the value of their total reward package

• Participate in projects that drive the continuous improvement of our total reward offering

• Experience working in a Reward, HR or Finance role
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills (LOOKUPs, nested IF statements, PIVOT tables and data visualisation using graphs & charts)
• Excellent numeracy, analytical skills and high data accuracy
• Critical thinker with a keen focus on continuous improvement and the ability to solve problems.
• Strong interpersonal skills, the 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