Compensation & Benefits Manager

Frazer Jones is delighted to be partnering exclusively with a highly successful international investment organisation currently undergoing a period of significant expansion across Europe and North America.

The business employs cira 500 professionals across multiple international locations and has established itself as a leading investor within the private markets sector. With an entrepreneurial culture and an impressive track record of growth, the organisation acquires and transforms businesses across a diverse portfolio, creating substantial value through operational excellence and strategic investment.

As the organisation continues to expand internationally and enters new markets, they are seeking a Compensation & Benefits Manager to play a key role in shaping and evolving their global reward strategy.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Compensation & Benefits professional to join a growing HR function and take ownership of compensation frameworks, executive reward structures and annual remuneration processes across a highly international workforce.

Reporting into senior HR leadership, you will partner closely with stakeholders across HR, Finance, Legal, Tax and Payroll, providing specialist reward expertise and helping to drive a modern, scalable compensation framework that supports continued business growth.

Key responsibilities include:

• Designing, developing and implementing compensation strategies, salary structures and pay frameworks across multiple jurisdictions
• Managing annual salary and bonus review processes, ensuring effective governance and execution
• Supporting the design and administration of executive compensation structures, including short term and long term incentive programmes
• Conducting market benchmarking, compensation analysis and reward modelling to support business decision making
• Producing management reporting, reward analytics and compensation insights for senior stakeholders
• Reviewing and enhancing compensation policies, processes and governance frameworks
• Providing expert advice to business leaders, HR partners and senior executives on compensation related matters
• Ensuring compliance with relevant tax, regulatory and remuneration requirements across international markets
• Collaborating with Finance, Legal, Payroll and external advisers on reward related projects
• Supporting the continued development of reward tools, systems and ways of working

The successful candidate will bring:

• A minimum of five years' experience within Compensation & Benefits, Total Rewards or Reward Analytics
• Strong technical compensation expertise gained within an international or complex matrix environment
• Experience managing salary review and bonus processes across multiple countries
• Excellent analytical and numerical capability with advanced Excel skills
• Strong market benchmarking and job evaluation experience
• The ability to influence and build credibility with senior stakeholders
• A pragmatic, commercial and solutions focused approach
• Experience working with HR systems and reward technologies, ideally including Workday
• Excellent communication skills and the confidence to operate autonomously
• Experience within financial services, private equity, professional services, consulting or other fast paced commercial environments would be advantageous

Why join?

This opportunity offers the chance to join an ambitious and growing international organisation at a key stage in its evolution.

• A genuinely international remit spanning Europe and North America
• Exposure to complex executive and incentive compensation structures
• Significant influence over the future development of reward strategy
• Close engagement with senior leadership and decision makers
• A collaborative, entrepreneurial and commercially focused culture
• Long term career development opportunities as the organisation continues its growth trajectory

This would suit either an established Compensation & Benefits specialist looking for broader international exposure, or a more senior reward professional seeking a hands on role within a high growth and entrepreneurial environment.

For a confidential discussion or more information, please contact Kate Headford at Frazer Jones.

The SR Group (UK) Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.