Compensation and Data Analyst

Compensation & Data Analyst London - Hybrid (3 days in the office) £55,000 - £65,000 base plus very competitive bonus and benefits. The Opportunity Our client is a prestigious London-based financial services organisation currently looking for a Compensation & Data Analyst to join its People team. You'll start by running an established reward cycle. From there, you'll help build the modelling behind an evolving approach to pay, with a real focus on automation and smarter use of data. It's a rare chance to shape how reward works, rather than simply maintain it. Key responsibilities

• Run the annual compensation model and support the end-to-end reward cycle
• Build new pay modelling as the organisation's reward methodology evolves
• Produce gender and ethnicity pay gap reporting
• Support job sizing and benchmarking for new roles
• Provide reward analysis and clear insight to senior stakeholders
• Automate recurring processes so models can be refreshed with new data each year rather than rebuilt
• Help shape the use of AI and self-service tools that give managers secure, controlled access to reward data What we're looking for
• Around two to five years' experience in an analytical role within reward, or people data .
• Confidence working with large datasets: cleaning, reconciling, checking and finding the story in the numbers
• Advanced Excel skills (an Excel-based assessment forms part of the process)
• Experience automating processes using Power Query, Power BI, VBA, SQL, Python or similar is a strong advantage
• A genuine curiosity about AI, combined with sound judgement on data confidentiality
• A confident, articulate communicator who can explain their analysis clearly and stand behind it when challenged
• Financial services or insurance experience is welcome but not essential