About you and the role:
The Reward Senior Associate will deliver operational excellence, reward related recommendations, advanced analytics, and play a key role in multiple strategic projects across compensation and reward. This role is for someone wanting to work in a fast-paced and evolving environment with exposure to high profile initiatives with opportunities to input into decision-making through providing data-driven insights and process and policy improvement ideation and delivery. This position will also support the delivery of Reward initiatives, with broad opportunity to work on technology, design, analytics, process, and policy.
What you will be doing:
Reward Analytics & Insights
- Develop and maintain advanced models for compensation, bonus, and mobility cost analysis.
- Support in the production of dashboards and visualizations (e.g., Power BI, Excel) that facilitate leadership decisions.
- Interpret large datasets to identify trends, risks, and opportunities across reward programs.
- Deliver accurate, timely reporting for senior stakeholders and regulatory requirements.
Reward Operations
- Prepare summaries and recommendations to support reward decisions.
- Annual compensation review and pay-for-performance initiatives (testing, data preparation and validation, data analytics & reporting, communication support, query point person).
- Complete benchmarking and market competitiveness analysis.
- Assist in modelling bonus scenarios and long-term incentive calculations.
- Apply job evaluation methodology to assess roles, support grading decisions, and maintain alignment with the organisation’s job architecture
- Document processes and recommend and implement improvements for efficiency and compliance.
Reward
- Validate and prepare data for reward related system uploads.
- Complete benchmarking and market competitiveness analysis.
- Assist in modelling bonus scenarios and long-term incentive calculations.
- Prepare summaries and recommendations for reward decisions.
Project Delivery
- Actively contribute to global projects such as:
- Reward policy reviews and process optimization.
- Integration of new systems or tools for reward data, planning and long-term incentive plans
- Job Architecture development and roll out.
- Coordinate with HR, Finance, and external vendors to ensure successful project outcomes.
Stakeholder and Vendor Management
- Act as a first point of contact for internal stakeholders, responding to queries across a broad range of reward topics, and providing clear, accurate and consistent guidance.
- Ensure accurate tracking of reward data and support compliance with internal policies and governance requirements.
- Partner with vendors and external providers to support the delivery of efficient and high-quality services.
What you will bring:
- Strong technical reward knowledge and experience.
- Experienced at least 2 end-to-end pay planning cycles and implementation/revision of a job architecture.
- Experience in process development and optimisation.
- Working experience in creating insights analysis and supporting dashboards within reward.
- Comfortable working with complex data using advanced Excel and VBA skills and experience with Power BI. Working knowledge of HRSoft highly desirable.
- Vendor relationship experience.
- Analytical Thinking: Expert in data interpretation and modelling.
- Business Acumen: Understands global reward structures and frameworks.
- Project Management: Skilled in planning, prioritizing, and delivering multiple initiatives.
- Collaboration: Works effectively across geographies and functions. Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Adaptability: Thrives in dynamic environments with shifting priorities.
- Influence: Communicates insights that can shape decisions.
Your Benefits:
- Pension (Enrolment is automatic on joining with a 10% employer contribution)
- Dental Insurance (This is an optional taxable benefit available to employee, spouse, and dependents)
- Medical Insurance (This is an optional taxable benefit available to employee, spouse, and dependents through a private health network)
- Travel Insurance (As an employee you are automatically enrolled with business and leisure travel insurance with single, couple, family, or single parent family coverage options.)
- Eligible company funded annual 360 Health Assessment.
- Voucher for free annual eye examination.
- Option to loan a bicycle and safety equipment tax free.
- Wellness Reimbursement program (up to 700 pounds annual reimbursement for wellness related expenses, i.e, gym memberships, massage, etc.).
- Tusker – Electric Vehicle (A fixed monthly amount is taken directly from your gross salary and, in return, you get the use of a brand new electric car.).
- Optional Critical Illness coverage
- Automatic coverage provided by income protection programme
- Access to Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) for health and wellbeing
- One paid annual volunteer day
Who we are:
We are a trusted global re/insurance group and the leading provider of retrospective solutions, with specialist underwriting capabilities. We help our clients manage risk, unlock capital and create the financial freedom to grow. With operations across the world’s major insurance hubs and a global network of close to 800 talented professionals, we bring expertise and fresh thinking to some of the industry’s biggest challenges.
For more information about Enstar, visit our website: www.enstargroup.com.
For more information about careers at Enstar, visit our LinkedIn Life page or visit our careers site
Why Enstar:
Learning and development are a fundamental part of every employee's career journey with Enstar. Supporting growth and career progression is key to how we engage our people - helping them to learn, grow and succeed at Enstar.
We offer a range of initiatives and resources to support our people throughout their careers:
- Professional Qualifications and Study Support: We support employees who wish to take professional qualifications aligned to their role and career development.
- Training, Conferences & Seminars: As a global organisation, we work with many professional bodies to provide access to training programmes, conferences, seminars and continuing professional development (CPD) opportunities.
- Digital Learning Hub: Our digital learning hub, LinkedIn Learning, offers a wide range of self-serve resources, including courses, videos, eBooks, and audio books, to help employees build news skills and deepen their knowledge.
We also invest in physical, mental and financial wellbeing initiatives for our employees. Supportive teams, inspiring work and a positive working environment all contribute to our collective wellbeing. Beyond the workplace, we strive to make a positive influence in our communities and to continuously reduce our impact on the environment.
Enstar Inclusivity Policy:
Our annual Inclusivity Index puts Enstar ahead of the industry in terms of promoting an inclusive and welcome working environment. We’re an equal opportunity employer and believe that our inclusive environment creates an authentic working culture. We don’t discriminate on the basis of age, physical or mental disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and carer status, race (including colour, nationality, and ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. Enstar is committed in providing an accessible recruitment experience for all those interested in working with us. Please let your Enstar Recruitment Partner know if you require any reasonable accommodation during the application process due to a disability to enable you to fully participate in our recruitment process.
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