Total Rewards Lead

Head of Total Rewards

Are you a strategic rewards leader with a passion for shaping innovative compensation and benefits programs that drive business performance and employee engagement?

Our client, a leading financial services organisation, is seeking an experienced Head of Total Rewards to lead and evolve its total rewards agenda. This is a high-impact leadership role responsible for designing and governing reward strategies that attract, motivate and retain top talent while ensuring alignment with business priorities, market competitiveness and regulatory requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and drive the organisation's Total Rewards philosophy, strategy and governance framework.
• Lead compensation strategy, including salary structures, annual remuneration reviews, incentive plans and promotion-related reward processes.
• Oversee employee benefits programmes, including healthcare, insurance, retirement and wellbeing offerings, ensuring effectiveness and cost efficiency.
• Design and manage recognition frameworks that support both strategic and operational objectives.
• Lead job evaluation, grading and job architecture initiatives while supporting organisational design and transformation programmes.
• Drive market benchmarking, reward analytics and workforce cost analysis to inform talent and business decisions.
• Act as the subject matter expert on Total Rewards, partnering closely with senior leadership, HR stakeholders and external advisors.

Ideal Profile

• Extensive experience leading Total Rewards, Compensation & Benefits, or Rewards Strategy functions within large and complex organisations.
• Strong expertise in compensation frameworks, benefits design, reward governance and market benchmarking.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and provide strategic advisory support.
• Strong analytical capabilities with experience leveraging data to drive reward decisions.
• Experience within financial services or other highly regulated industries would be advantageous.
• Demonstrated success in leading transformation, organisational design or workforce-related initiatives.