A career in Human Resources, within Internal Firm Services, will provide you with the opportunity to make a difference at PwC by helping to fully leverage the skills and talents of all our people. You’ll focus on helping the local offices in driving the Firm’s people strategy, creating a unique people experience for each individual, and supporting our Firm wide values by working with the core competencies that measure and drive individual and Firm wide success in the marketplace.

Our Total Rewards team plays an important role in supporting the attraction, engagement, and retention of key talent for the Firm. As part of the team, you’ll help develop and administer our total rewards programme by focusing on areas such as competitive benchmarking, tax and regulatory compliance, and incentive design and linkage to performance management.

Who we are looking for

The internal reward team provides reward advice and operational support to the UK firm on internal reward strategy, policy and implementation on both specific projects and the annual reward review.
The internal reward team is part of the firm’s People Team’s community and consists of a group of 10-12 including analysts, managers and senior managers reporting to the Director of Reward. We are now looking for an experienced reward manager or a senior manager to join our team.

The primary focus of this role is to act as a reward leader working on specific strategic firmwide projects from design through to implementation. In addition the role may also require support to the business through support on specific projects or in input into the delivery of the annual salary review process and reward advice throughout the year.
We are looking for someone with previous reward experience from either a consultancy or corporate environment. Experience within a professional services environment would be an advantage. You will need to demonstrate excellent commercial and relationship skills alongside your reward and analytical capabilities.

About the role

This is a varied and interesting role, providing a good insight into the business. You need to be enthusiastic and keen to practice your reward skills in an operational environment within a leading professional services firm. You will need to be able to combine strong reward and analytical skills with an interest in the business and an ability to work with a complex and wide group of stakeholders.

• Reward lead on projects

• Build and maintain great client relationships with HC Leaders and People Partners.

• Support the business in the design, implementation and communication of reward strategies and policies that are aligned to the business strategy.

• Alert the leadership to new ideas and changes in the reward arena, and lead discussion with key stakeholders around these ideas and changes.

• Monitor and measure the success of implemented policies on an ongoing basis.

• Use of and overseeing production of timely reports and analysis on reward information including cost modelling and data analytics using formulas, graphs, charts etc.

• Management and interpretation of reward market intelligence using established salary surveys and base pay / total cash information/trends.

• RequirementsThe following are essential skills needed for the role:

   

• Proven, demonstrable reward experience at professional / manager and above level with strong technical reward skills, knowledge of best practice and a broad understanding of commercial and business issues.

• Strong communication, negotiation and influencing skills and ability to flex style in a fluid, ambiguous environment and with members of the leadership teams.

• Strong IT (particularly excel / related tools) and analytical skills.

• Able to apply consultative style on complex issues, before reaching a conclusion.

• Able to plan and organise complex projects successfully, including the delegation of tasks as necessary, in a structured and practical way.

• Able to manage reward risks and costs on behalf of the firm/line of service.

• Able to effectively manage and motivate team members to deliver on agreed objectives.



 

Internal firm services

In order to deliver a first-class service to our clients, we need first-class support internally. Internal firm services is a network of specialist support professionals and includes marketing, recruitment, human capital, finance, technology, learning and development, procurement, to name but a few. Each team plays a vital role in making sure we have all the right resources, services and technology across our business.

The skills we look for in future employees

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’ and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

Learn more here www.pwc.com/uk/careers/experienced/apply

Diversity

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.

Learn more here www.pwc.com/uk/diversity