You will own compensation insight and cost control across the business. You will track and manage pay against budgets, provide clear analysis to senior stakeholders, and embed market data into hiring and reward decisions.
This is a hands‑on role. You will work with complex datasets, influence senior decisions, and bring structure and discipline to compensation activity across Benchmark.
What you'll do
Compensation cost and budget management
Track salary, bonus and equity costs against approved budgets
Monitor risks, variances and emerging pressures, with clear recommendations
Work closely with Finance to align forecasting, reporting and planning
Analysis and reporting
Build and maintain compensation models for forecasting and scenario planning
Produce clear, decision-ready insight for ExCo and senior leadership
Analyse large datasets accurately and efficiently
Annual and in‑year pay activity
Support annual compensation reviews and out‑of‑cycle changes
Track budget usage and adherence to frameworks
Maintain clear, audit‑ready documentation
Benchmarking and market data
Own benchmarking across job families and roles
Translate market data into practical pay guidance
Manage relationships with external data providers
Hiring and Talent Acquisition support
Provide pay guidance into hiring and offer decisions
Support benchmarking for new and replacement roles
Drive consistency and budget discipline across hiring
Advisory and stakeholder support
Partner with HRBPs and leadership on pay decisions
Provide clear, evidence‑based compensation advice
Simplify complex data for non‑technical audiences
Share plans and equity
Support equity and share plan administration
Track participation, costs and reporting requirements
Acquisitions and integration
Support compensation analysis for acquisitions
Provide input into due diligence and integration decisions
Assess pay structures, schemes and alignment
Governance, risk and equity
Identify and analyse pay risks and inconsistencies
Support pay equity and risk reviews
Maintain controls aligned to governance requirements, including SM&CR principles
The knowledge, experience and qualifications you need
Experience in compensation, reward, or analytics roles
Strong experience managing compensation budgets or cost envelopes
Advanced Excel skills, including modelling and data analysis
Confidence working with large datasets and complex reports
Experience presenting insight to senior stakeholders
Desirable
Experience with share or equity programmes
Experience supporting annual pay reviews
Exposure to external market data providers
Financial services or regulated environment experience
The base
You’ll be based at the Benchmark Head Office, within our Broadlands Business Campus near Horsham in West Sussex but will need to be present across our other offices, including the main Schroders headquarters in London. It has high standards and international reputation, without being in the city: a big, countryside campus means life will feel a little different.
We support our offices by using cutting edge software and hardware and our spacious campus facilities mean there's a great working environment for the team. With an on‑site restaurant, coffee shop and gym, our campus has much to offer. And commuters can relax on our dedicated regular shuttle bus to and from Horsham’s main line train station.
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