Compensation Specialist

Job Purpose: Along with another People Advisor - Compensation Specialist, you will take ownership of compensation-related administrative tasks, reporting, and managing daily compensation queries from colleagues and people managers in the UK, allowing our Compensation Partners to focus on more strategic work. Meet Your Team and Manager You will be part of our People Services Advisory team (Tier 2), specialising in compensation. We are a centralised team responsible for managing all administrative tasks and complex queries related to rewards. You will join a global team dedicated to providing efficient, colleague-focused service, promoting simplicity, new working methods, and standardisation. Your manager is fully committed to your development, offering flexibility and ensuring a healthy work-life balance, so you have the support needed to succeed in your role.,

• Conduct job evaluations to ensure fairness and consistency across the business.
• Manage compensation queries from colleagues ensuring effective ticket (ServiceNow) resolution.
• Review and submit pay data to external, market-leading salary surveys.
• Maintain and update manager resources in online brochures.
• Ensure data accuracy through regular audits, data cleansing, and updates in our HCM system.
• Support the pay review cycle by ensuring data integrity, testing compensation planning tools, and facilitating a seamless experience for Managers during year-end reward activities.
• Build and maintain strong, collaborative relationships with cross-functional People teams, Director of Rewards, and People Business Partners.
• Recommend process improvements to strengthen workflows and collaboration.
• Provide ad hoc support to the Reward Centre of Excellence (COE) for projects and initiatives.
• Complete cyclical compensation activities, including gender pay gap analysis and national minimum wage reviews.
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• You have 2+ years of experience in HR specializing in compensation and data analysis.
• You have intermediate-to-advanced proficiency with Excel (e.g., VLOOKUPs, pivot tables, and formulas) and can draw meaningful and reliable conclusions from large, complex, datasets.
• You possess a basic understanding of statistics (e.g., mean, median, quartiles) to support data-driven decision-making.
• You can collaborate effectively with different colleagues across the People team recognizing that different partners may have unique ways of working.
  
  Working at Sage means you're supporting millions of small and medium sized businesses globally with technology to work faster and smarter. We leverage the future of AI, meaning business owners spend less time doing routine tasks, like entering invoices and generating reports, and more time pursuing their ambitions.
Our colleagues are the best of the best. It's why we were awarded 2024 Best Places to Work by Glassdoor. Because to achieve extraordinary outcomes, we need extraordinary teams. This means infusing Sage with people who knock down barriers, continuously innovate, and want to experience their potential.


• Generous bonuses and pension scheme: Up to 8% matched pension contribution plus 2% top-up by Sage (8+8+2% = 18% total contribution).
• 25 days of paid annual leave with the option to buy up to another 5 days
• 8 bank holiday days
• Paid 5 days yearly to volunteer through our Sage Foundation
• 50% income protection
• Holiday buy + sell
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
• Work away scheme for up to 10 weeks a year
• Ongoing training and professional development
• Hybrid working
• Healthy Mind app membership
• Access to various helpful memberships for finances, health and wellbeing