Reward & Benefits Advisor

About the Role

We are growing our People team! As a result of continued growth, we have created a new role to lead the day-to-day Reward, Payroll and Benefits activity across our business.

You would be joining us during an exciting period of significant change and transformation for the People function. We are currently implementing Workday to improve our working processes and people experience, alongside this we are managing a project to bring our payroll in house. You will be working closely with the People Operations Manager and the wider people team to support the implementation of these changes and lead the delivery of reward, benefit, and payroll services.

You may be currently be working in a Reward role, or a more generalist role where you are involved in reward related activity. Or you could be working in a Payroll role and are keen to move into a wider reward role. Ideally, you will have experience with Payroll, but if not, a willingness to learn and be accountable for all payroll related matters is important. Experience with Workday would be an advantage, but not essential. Most importantly you will be a self-starter, who is proactive and willing to learn.

It’s an exciting time to join a friendly and energising People team and shape this role to redefine the HR service and processes we deliver. If you are excited by the opportunity, but don’t think you are an exact fit, we would still like to hear from you, so please get in contact to discuss the role further.

We are proud to have received Great Places to Work accreditation, which reflects our ambition to bring out the best in our people.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leading all Payroll activity, including the processing of monthly payroll and ensuring all the statutory reporting requirements of payroll are met.
• Support the implementation and ongoing adoption of Workday in providing reward, benefits, and payroll services.
• Planning and facilitating the annual pay review, reviewing the annual pay scales and providing reporting and analysis as required.
• Completing Gender pay reporting, creating the appropriate reports and analysing the data to support the development of plans to close any gaps.
• Leading and managing the job evaluation and benchmarking process – submitting data to Willis Towers Watson (WTW) and setting and agreeing pay bands each year, working closely with key stakeholders to ensure that pay decisions are appropriate.
• Working with the HR Operations manager to manage the annual benefits renewals.
• Promote and report on take up of our employee benefits offering.
• Acting as a main point of contact for pay and benefits queries.

About You

Essential Skills and Qualifications:

• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, and Teams).
• Previous experience of working with HR systems.
• Previous reward related experience to include pay benchmarking, creation of pay scales, and pay review planning.
• Exceptional organisation, time management skills and commitment to delivering quality work.
• Able to prioritise work under a rapidly changing, pressure-filled, fast-paced environment whilst maintaining a positive attitude without supervision.
• Ability to proactively organise own workload and manage ambiguity.
• A proactive style and can-do attitude, who takes initiative and demonstrates a willingness to help others.
• Confident, person-centric communication skills demonstrated by experience in communicating verbally and in writing with employees at all levels.
• Good problem-solving skills

Desired Skills:

• Experience of working with an ERP e.g. Workday
• Desire to grow and develop in an HR career, working towards CIPD professional qualification or showing a willingness to work towards CIPD/appropriate professional qualification.
• Previous experience in processing payroll and benefits administration

Why Bishop Fleming?!

Bishop Fleming is an independent leading provider of audit, accountancy, tax, and advisory services in the UK. With a turnover of £38.4m, the firm saw growth of 15.5% per cent over the last 12 months.

From owner-managed businesses, SMEs, and large businesses; to entrepreneurs and private individuals; Bishop Fleming has a wealth of knowledge and experience in areas such as internal and external audit, corporate and personal tax, corporate finance and deals and accounting services.

Bishop Fleming is currently ranked 33 in the Accountancy Age league table and is the number one provider of audit services multi-academy trusts in the academy sector. The firm was also ranked fifth in the inaugural UK Accountancy Age Mid-Tier Power Index.

With 8 offices spanning from the West Midlands to the South West, the firm has 43 partners and nearly 500 staff, and is a certified Great Place to Work®.

Bishop Fleming is a member of Kreston Global, a global network of independent accounting firms in more than 100 countries.

We are a firm that thinks clients, people and communities. As a member of Business in the Community (BITC) we are focussed on improving our responsible business practices and collectively making positive impacts for the benefit of society.

If that’s not enough, we offer a fantastic range of benefits including:

• Competitive holiday allowance, plus bank holidays, plus Christmas off!
• Hybrid working
• A contributory Pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Simply Health cashback plan including access to 24/7 online GP service and counselling services
• Perkbox discounts and rewards platform with over 4,00 perks and discounts
• Yulife employee wellbeing app
• Social events with active social committees that plan internal and external events
• Numerous opportunities for development

Please contact Sam Ford, Talent Acquisition Manager if you would like to discuss this opportunity further.

We welcome applicants who would like the flexibility in their working arrangements, including working from home or part time working which may help to accommodate parent or carer responsibilities, further studies, and activities outside of work.

We are committed to welcoming new people into an inclusive working environment, where everyone is given equal opportunity to reach their full potential. We support a culture where people are valued and treated fairly with respect and differences are understood and celebrated.

The more varied our workforce, the broader the expertise within our business. The broader our expertise, the greater our chances of innovation and success. That's why as a responsible business and member of Business in the Community (BITC), we're committed to equality of opportunity, diversity, and inclusion at every level.