16 Compensation Benefits jobs in the United Kingdom

I am sourcing a detail driven, people focused Compensation & Benefits Specialist to join a leading Logistics Business based in the East Midlands . This is a fantastic opportunity to work on reward, benefits, and pensions projects that truly make an impact. This role will be 3 days on site and 2 days working from home. Competitive salary offering great company benefits.

You'll work closely with the Comp & Bens Manager, taking ownership of benefits communication and engagement and supporting across a variety of reward related activities from annual salary reviews and bonus schemes to gender pay analysis and pension administration.

Compensation & Benefits Specialist Key Responsibilities:

• Supporting the annual salary review process.
• Ensuring data accuracy, answering queries, and tracking completion.
• Managing elements of company bonus schemes and conducting salary benchmarking.
• Leading the delivery of benefits communication to maximise engagement.
• Driving improvements in benefits processes
• Administering and improving risk based benefits and pensions processes.
• Managing benefit renewals, annual selection windows, and holiday purchase schemes.
• Analysing data and gender pay gap reporting
• Being the go to person for reward and benefits queries.

Compensation & Benefits Specialist Skills Required:

• Solid knowledge of UK Compensation & Benefits practices
• Understanding of employment law, HMRC guidance, and auto-enrolment legislation.
• Experience with Defined Contribution (DC) pension schemes and benefits processes.
• Strong Excel skills (VLOOKUPs, Pivot Tables, large data sets).
• Excellent communication and relationship building skills.
• Experience managing projects in a complex, fast-paced environment.

At Gleeson Recruitment Group, we embrace inclusivity and welcome applicants of all backgrounds, experiences, and abilities. We are proud to be a disability confident employer.

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Compensation and Benefits Analyst

Ref: CC46779

A global Japanese trading company is seeking an experienced Compensation and Benefits Analyst to join its London office.

Reporting to the C&B Lead, you would be responsible for providing full remit of compensation and benefits advice, and co-ordination and its elected subsidiary companies, (including related taxation, National Insurance issues, year-end- procedures, salary budget, department budget, bonus calculation and pension) to ensure a seamless function is maintained always.

The ideal candidate should have strong analytical skills, attention to detail, proficiency in payroll systems, and excellent communication abilities – from a background of managing monthly payrolls.

TYPE: Permanent, full-time

WORKING HOURS: 9:00-17:00 from Monday to Friday

SALARY: £43k-£46.5k, depending on experience

START: Applications will be processed from the start of September

LOCATION: London, (Hybrid – 3 days in the office, 2 days working from home)

Compensation and Benefits Analyst Main Responsibilities:

• To provide a service in connection with payroll/tax, bene?ts, monthly reporting and project work
• Manage payroll processes and related month end activities in SAP
• Assist employees with compensation and bene?t queries
• Collate and upload monthly contributions to Scottish Widows. Issue SAP payments, recharge subsidiary and deal with related queries
• Prepare provision of bonus for Accounting Department
• Reconcile year end PAYE and NI for the UK payrolls. Calculate NIC.5 due on bene?ts in kind, issue P11D (b)'s for 6 July deadline and issue payments to HMRC
• Collate expenses for the PSA, taxable relocation and issue calculation/payment to HMRC
• Complete annual compensation and benefit surveys
• Prepare salary budget and department budget. Analyse and track monthly budget progress
• Provide Global Mobility team with monthly headcount report by cost centre
• Establish service agreements with subsidiary companies

Compensation and Benefits Analyst Ideal Candidate:

• Deep understanding of payroll - to understand what a tax code means, why it has changed, what maternity/paternity pay is, and understands how an employee’s pension works
• Understanding of company budgeting, for monitoring budget vs actuals for the department
• Highly numerate with a high level of attention to detail
• Excellent analytical and communication skills
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Word and Excel, including pivot tables
• Experience in payroll processes and management of confidential data
• Understanding of UK tax laws and regulations
• Experience working with a payroll software, ideally Moorepay
• Budget preparation and analysis
• Business level fluency in English

** All applicants for the Compensation and Benefits Analyst must have the right to work in the country as the Company is not able to offer visa support.

*We regret that we cannot accept applications from Working holiday visa, Graduate or Student visa holders.

If your application is successful, you will be contacted within two business days. We regret that due to the high volume of applications we receive we cannot provide feedback on individual CVs.

Meraki Talent are partnering with a leading Brokerage house, looking for an experienced Compensation & Benefits Specialist to join their HR team. You will be responsible for providing full advise to employees, explaining in detail any changes in relations to payroll, tax, salary, pensions and other benefit changes.

Compensation & Rewards responsibilities :

• Manage seven monthly payrolls internationally across different business entities, with changes in regulations and budgets.
• Understand and explain tax codes, changes, and statutory payments such as maternity/paternity pay.
• Handle P11Ds, PSA calculations, NIC on benefits, and HMRC submissions.
• Overseeing benefits, pension scheme enrolment, contributions, and salary sacrifice arrangements.
• Manage renewals for life assurance, critical illness cover, PMI, travel insurance, and income protection.
• Prepare and track departmental salary and operating budgets.
• Work alongside wider HR teams, such as Global Mobility for monthly headcount report for cost centre.
• Monitor actuals against forecasts, ensure correct cost allocations, and produce monthly headcount reports.
• Complete annual compensation, benefits surveys and contribute to benchmarking for the UK & Europe.
• Provide clear, confident guidance to employees on payroll, benefits, and taxation matters.

Person Specification:

• 5+ years in payroll, tax, and benefits within a trading firm ideally or other financial services and professional company dependant.
• Experience dealing with multi-entity business, someone not within big payroll bureau, but someone within monthly payroll exposure.
• Strong understanding of UK tax laws and regulations.
• Experience with pensions, benefits schemes, and payroll systems ideally Moorepay if not ADP, or Sage.
• Exposure to budgeting and accounting processes.
• Exceptional attention to detail, accuracy, and analytical skills.
• Advanced Excel (including pivot tables).
• Strong organisational and time management abilities.
• Proactive, independent, and comfortable making decisions off their own knowledge.
• Committed to deadlines, especially during critical payroll periods.

For a private and confidential discussion please contact Yasmin Soames, available on or please call me on 0204 5724853.

Compensation and Benefits Analyst

Ref: CC46779

A global Japanese trading company is seeking an experienced Compensation and Benefits Analyst to join its London office.

Reporting to the C&B Lead, you would be responsible for providing full remit of compensation and benefits advice, and co-ordination and its elected subsidiary companies, (including related taxation, National Insurance issues, year-end- procedures, salary budget, department budget, bonus calculation and pension) to ensure a seamless function is maintained always.

The ideal candidate should have strong analytical skills, attention to detail, proficiency in payroll systems, and excellent communication abilities – from a background of managing monthly payrolls.

TYPE: Permanent, full-time

WORKING HOURS: 9:00-17:00 from Monday to Friday

SALARY: £43k-£46.5k, depending on experience

START: Applications will be processed from the start of September

LOCATION: London, (Hybrid – 3 days in the office, 2 days working from home)

Compensation and Benefits Analyst Main Responsibilities:

• To provide a service in connection with payroll/tax, bene?ts, monthly reporting and project work
• Manage payroll processes and related month end activities in SAP
• Assist employees with compensation and bene?t queries
• Collate and upload monthly contributions to Scottish Widows. Issue SAP payments, recharge subsidiary and deal with related queries
• Prepare provision of bonus for Accounting Department
• Reconcile year end PAYE and NI for the UK payrolls. Calculate NIC.5 due on bene?ts in kind, issue P11D (b)'s for 6 July deadline and issue payments to HMRC
• Collate expenses for the PSA, taxable relocation and issue calculation/payment to HMRC
• Complete annual compensation and benefit surveys
• Prepare salary budget and department budget. Analyse and track monthly budget progress
• Provide Global Mobility team with monthly headcount report by cost centre
• Establish service agreements with subsidiary companies

Compensation and Benefits Analyst Ideal Candidate:

• Deep understanding of payroll - to understand what a tax code means, why it has changed, what maternity/paternity pay is, and understands how an employee’s pension works
• Understanding of company budgeting, for monitoring budget vs actuals for the department
• Highly numerate with a high level of attention to detail
• Excellent analytical and communication skills
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Word and Excel, including pivot tables
• Experience in payroll processes and management of confidential data
• Understanding of UK tax laws and regulations
• Experience working with a payroll software, ideally Moorepay
• Budget preparation and analysis
• Business level fluency in English

** All applicants for the Compensation and Benefits Analyst must have the right to work in the country as the Company is not able to offer visa support.

*We regret that we cannot accept applications from Working holiday visa, Graduate or Student visa holders.

If your application is successful, you will be contacted within two business days. We regret that due to the high volume of applications we receive we cannot provide feedback on individual CVs.

Meraki Talent are partnering with a leading Brokerage house, looking for an experienced Compensation & Benefits Specialist to join their HR team. You will be responsible for providing full advise to employees, explaining in detail any changes in relations to payroll, tax, salary, pensions and other benefit changes.

Compensation & Rewards responsibilities :

• Manage seven monthly payrolls internationally across different business entities, with changes in regulations and budgets.
• Understand and explain tax codes, changes, and statutory payments such as maternity/paternity pay.
• Handle P11Ds, PSA calculations, NIC on benefits, and HMRC submissions.
• Overseeing benefits, pension scheme enrolment, contributions, and salary sacrifice arrangements.
• Manage renewals for life assurance, critical illness cover, PMI, travel insurance, and income protection.
• Prepare and track departmental salary and operating budgets.
• Work alongside wider HR teams, such as Global Mobility for monthly headcount report for cost centre.
• Monitor actuals against forecasts, ensure correct cost allocations, and produce monthly headcount reports.
• Complete annual compensation, benefits surveys and contribute to benchmarking for the UK & Europe.
• Provide clear, confident guidance to employees on payroll, benefits, and taxation matters.

Person Specification:

• 5+ years in payroll, tax, and benefits within a trading firm ideally or other financial services and professional company dependant.
• Experience dealing with multi-entity business, someone not within big payroll bureau, but someone within monthly payroll exposure.
• Strong understanding of UK tax laws and regulations.
• Experience with pensions, benefits schemes, and payroll systems ideally Moorepay if not ADP, or Sage.
• Exposure to budgeting and accounting processes.
• Exceptional attention to detail, accuracy, and analytical skills.
• Advanced Excel (including pivot tables).
• Strong organisational and time management abilities.
• Proactive, independent, and comfortable making decisions off their own knowledge.
• Committed to deadlines, especially during critical payroll periods.

For a private and confidential discussion please contact Yasmin Soames, available on or please call me on 0204 5724853.

The ideal candidate will lead the design and delivery of the global reward policy agenda for the company. The role focuses on all aspects of reward including reward infrastructure and job architecture, global incentive design and overall strategic reward partnering at a leadership level.

Hybrid – 3 days in the office

Start – ASAP

Duration – 8 months

Responsibilities

• Drive the development and implementation of the global reward approach
• Design and seek leadership approval of global reward models and approaches, which supports the wider HR strategy
• Lead the development of global incentive plans (sales and bonus) and bring expertise to the development of functional/regional incentive plans
• Own the approach to the company's reward infrastructure including job banding, market benchmark surveys, salary range models, and supporting job architecture.
• Manage the annual bonus and merit cycles globally

Qualifications

• 7 years+ experience in reward role in house or consulting
• Experience in modelling, incentive plans, bonus design and the ability to work with data and model it effectively.
• A solid understanding of pay reviews is essential, as the successful candidate will need to feel confident standing in front of 500 managers and delivering training.
• Experience in managing large, complex, global projects with network of cross-functional stakeholders
• Deep knowledge of core reward topics e.g., job architecture, reward and compensation principles, pay structure design, incentive design and benefits
• Experience of working in a multinational organisation

I am sourcing a detail driven, people focused Compensation & Benefits Specialist to join a leading Logistics Business based in the East Midlands . This is a fantastic opportunity to work on reward, benefits, and pensions projects that truly make an impact. This role will be 3 days on site and 2 days working from home. Competitive salary offering great company benefits.

You'll work closely with the Comp & Bens Manager, taking ownership of benefits communication and engagement and supporting across a variety of reward related activities from annual salary reviews and bonus schemes to gender pay analysis and pension administration.

Compensation & Benefits Specialist Key Responsibilities:

• Supporting the annual salary review process.
• Ensuring data accuracy, answering queries, and tracking completion.
• Managing elements of company bonus schemes and conducting salary benchmarking.
• Leading the delivery of benefits communication to maximise engagement.
• Driving improvements in benefits processes
• Administering and improving risk based benefits and pensions processes.
• Managing benefit renewals, annual selection windows, and holiday purchase schemes.
• Analysing data and gender pay gap reporting
• Being the go to person for reward and benefits queries.

Compensation & Benefits Specialist Skills Required:

• Solid knowledge of UK Compensation & Benefits practices
• Understanding of employment law, HMRC guidance, and auto-enrolment legislation.
• Experience with Defined Contribution (DC) pension schemes and benefits processes.
• Strong Excel skills (VLOOKUPs, Pivot Tables, large data sets).
• Excellent communication and relationship building skills.
• Experience managing projects in a complex, fast-paced environment.
  

At Gleeson Recruitment Group, we embrace inclusivity and welcome applicants of all backgrounds, experiences, and abilities. We are proud to be a disability confident employer.

By applying you will be registered as a candidate with Gleeson Recruitment Limited. Our Privacy Policy is available on our website and explains how we will use your data.

Delighted to be working with a global brand name that is looking to hire a Compensation & Benefits Advisor on a permanent basis. This a great role to gain broad experience across all areas of compensation and benefits with a sizable and diverse headcount that is geographically dispersed across the UK.

Reporting into the Head of C&B's this role supports a headcount of c.6K across multiple UK sites.

• Own end-to-end payroll delivery (UK & international) in collaboration with HR, Finance, and external partners
• Act as the go-to expert for payroll queries and employee benefits, including pensions and family-related leave
• Manage and enhance reward initiatives such as our annual award and share schemes
• Conduct compensation analysis, salary benchmarking, and support pay equity reviews
• Ensure HR data integrity through regular audits and system updates (HRIS)
• Produce accurate reporting for leadership, auditors, and regulatory needs
• Drive process improvements and support HR tech projects
• Contribute to broader HR initiatives, providing guidance on employment legislation

• Proven experience in managing UK and international payrolls
• Strong knowledge of benefits schemes, pensions, and statutory entitlements
• Skilled in compensation benchmarking and pay analysis
• HRIS and payroll system proficiency; strong data management capabilities

• CIPD Level 7 or equivalent (nice to have)
• Global reward experience, including share schemes and provider networks
• Experience in HR tech, employee relations, and private company incentive schemes

• Salary disclosure on discussion
• Full corporate benefits package
• Fully office based, Monday to Friday
• Great London offices and fantastic working environment