Reward Partner

Rathbones provides individual investment and wealth management services for private clients, charities, trustees and professional partners. We have been trusted for generations to manage and preserve our clients’ wealth.

Our tradition of investing and acting responsibly has been with us from the beginning and continues to lead us forward. Our ambition is to be recognised as the UK’s most responsible wealth manager.

We see it as our responsibility to invest for everyone’s tomorrow. That means doing the right thing for our clients and for others too. Keeping the future in mind when we make decisions today. Looking beyond the short term for the most sustainable outcome. This is how we build enduring value for our clients, make a wider contribution to society and create a lasting legacy. Thinking, acting and investing responsibly.

Job Title:  Reward Partner

Department: Reward

Location: London

Contract Type:  Permanent

The Role

In this role you will support with the delivery of compensation and benefits programmes within a wealth management firm. This role provides analytical and advisory support across reward strategy, annual review processes, benchmarking and regulatory reporting, ensuring alignment with business objectives and compliance requirements.

This role sits within a small team allowing you to gain a wide range of experience and engage with broad business areas. 

This role will be based in our London office and is a hybrid role with the requirement of attending the office each Tuesday and Thursday.

Outcomes of the Role

In this role you will:

• Assist in the development and execution of reward strategy and compensation design. 
• Conduct benchmarking and compensation analysis to ensure market competitiveness

• Support the annual compensation review process, including data preparation and moderation. 
• Assist with budget reviews and tracking.
• Assist with regulatory reporting including; gender pay gap reporting, Women in Finance charter, FTSE Women leader, equal pay reviews and analysis.
• Provide advisory support to HR Business Partners and line managers. 
• Produce analysis and reports as required to support Reward queries 

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Extensive experience of working within a reward role, preferably in a financial services environment
• Experience of delivering the annual reward cycle and all associated components as well as benchmarking including job evaluation and data management.
• Excellent Excel and analytical skills and confident with manipulation of large data sets.   
• Confident and experienced at partnering with and advising business leaders
• Strong analytical and numerical skills
• Effective communication and collaboration, ability to build strong working relationships with colleagues
• Organised and able to deliver high quality work to tight deadlines

This role will be based in our London office and is a hybrid role with the requirement of attending the office each Tuesday and Thursday.

Life at Rathbones

We aim to become an employer of choice for the wealth management sector, to achieve this we are working hard to build a diverse, equal, and inclusive workplace that motivates, develops and embraces the strengths of all our colleagues. Being part of Rathbones means you will join a team of passionate professionals in a successful culture that cares for its people. At Rathbones, we provide meaningful work, opportunities, and a voice to all.

We are committed to building a team that is made up of diverse skills, experiences and abilities and encourage applications from all backgrounds. We welcome individuals who share our values – those that are passionate about client service, operate with the highest levels of integrity and have a strong results focus.

We’re a Level 1 Disability Confident employer under the UK Government scheme. This means we’ve signed up to a set of commitments around how we recruit, retain and develop people with disabilities. Find out more about the Government Scheme online. If you require adjustments to apply for a role at Rathbones, please contact us via recruit@rathbones.com to let us know what adjustments you may need.