Senior Pay & Reward Manager
Duration: 6 months
Rate: £350 per day
Location: Remote working with occasional travel to the client site when required and you can choose either London, Bristol or Manchester.
IR35 Status: Inside
Start: ASAP

We require a Senior Pay & Reward Manager for our Government Client to focus on Pay and Reward for their digital and data profession (DDaT); which comprises in excess of 25,000 who work in multiple departments.

Responsibilities include:

Market pay analysis to inform the drafting of new 2025 business cases on

Senior Civil Service roles

Cyber roles

Current Government Digital and Data roles (updated for 2025 data)

Capture and analysis of UK employment practice on bonuses and non-pay benefits to help build a profession-led reward approach for a future business case

Reviewing and analysing department's business cases to adopt, or extend, the pay framework focusing on

Spreadsheet analysis of department's data, and savings estimates

Template completion

Advising and supporting Depts Implementation preparation

Advising and supporting new adopting Depts on capability assessment

Building a GDS library of adopting departments documentation and agreements connected to framework implementation.

Support the Pay and Reward Lead as necessary

Skills & Experience required:

As the Senior Pay & Reward Manager you will possess the following:

Analytical skills, modelling pay data, drawing inferences, testing models
Excel skills; including pivot tables, some 'whatif'
Influencing stakeholders via oral and written media
Previous experience of working in a Pay and Reward role; using market data, helping design pay and benefit practice and addressing challenges relating to pay and reward
An understanding of reward tools and practices and evidence of implementation - essential
External pay benchmarking & working with data to inform strategy
To possess an understanding of pay frameworks together with an understanding of reward tools and practices and evidence of implementation is also required.
Demonstrable evidence of thinking critically, using analysis and challenging assumptions

Certes IT Service Solutions welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds

To apply to this role please call Joanne Stanley or email: (see below)

Certes Computing (and all of its subsidiary companies) is committed to promoting equality and diversity in its business operations.