Catalyst Partners
Rewards Manager
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About the Company
Our client is a leading international financial services institution with a strong reputation for governance, innovation, and disciplined growth. Operating within a highly regulated environment, the firm places significant emphasis on sophisticated reward structures to attract, retain, and motivate senior talent while maintaining robust regulatory compliance.
About the Role
This Senior Reward Manager role sits within the central Reward function and reports to the Global Head of Reward. It is a senior advisory position, partnering closely with executive stakeholders and remuneration committees to shape remuneration strategy and deliver complex, high-impact reward initiatives. The successful candidate will play a critical role in influencing reward philosophy, leading annual processes, and ensuring alignment with evolving market practice and regulatory expectations.
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Key Responsibilities
- Act as a trusted adviser to senior leadership and executive committees, providing strategic and commercially grounded guidance on remuneration frameworks and policy.
- Lead the end-to-end annual reward review process, including bonus pool determination, allocation, and governance, ensuring robust analysis and board-ready recommendations.
- Oversee remuneration governance and regulatory compliance, including disclosures, reporting requirements, and interpretation of FCA/PRA-related regulations.
- Deliver complex reward projects and transformation initiatives, translating regulatory, market, and business developments into actionable changes.
- Drive market benchmarking and remuneration insights, using external data to inform pay positioning, talent strategy, and senior hiring decisions.
- Own reward data, analytics, and reporting, ensuring integrity, governance, and high-quality management information to support executive decision-making.
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Candidate Profile
- Extensive reward experience within financial services, with a strong understanding of remuneration regulation, governance, and executive compensation.
- Proven track record advising senior stakeholders and operating effectively within complex, highly regulated environments.
- Strong analytical capability, including advanced Excel skills and the ability to translate complex data into clear, actionable insights.
- Deep experience in benchmarking, reward design, regulatory reporting, and annual compensation cycles.
- Excellent communication skills, with the confidence to present at executive and board level and influence decision-making.
- High levels of discretion, commercial judgement, and the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
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