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Senior Reward Analyst

🗓️ Posted 2026-08-28 Edinburgh Hybrid Human Resources Recruitment
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market 3,750 GBP–5,417 GBP/mo

About the Company

Job Description The Reward team plays an important role in attracting, retaining and motivating talented colleagues across Aberdeen. Working closely with HR, Finance, Payroll and business leaders, the team delivers fair, data-driven reward strategies, governance and market insight. Through robust analysis, effective processes and continuous improvement, the team supports Aberdeen's goal of enabling our clients to be better investors.

About the Role

Based in Edinburgh, this permanent Senior level role is an opportunity to play a key part in the delivery and continuous improvement of Aberdeen's reward framework.

Responsibilities

  • ● ge to provide meaningful insight across compensation, benefits, market benchmarking and regulatory reporting. Working with large and complex datasets, you will influence reward decisions, support annual compensation activities and help strengthen governance and compliance. This is an excellent opportunity to develop your expertise while making a visible impact across the organisation.
  • ● The Senior Reward Analyst plays a key role in the delivery, governance and continuous improvement of Aberdeen's reward framework. This role provides experienced analytical, technical and operational support across reward processes.
  • ● Reward Analysis & Reporting
  • ● Lead and deliver detailed reward analysis across salary, bonus, benefits, market positioning, equal pay and pay transparency reporting requirements.
  • ● Produce high-quality reward dashboards, reports and insights for Reward Consultants and Managers, HRBPs and senior stakeholders using Power BI and Workday data.
  • ● Undertake data modelling, validation, reconciliation and quality assurance to support robust reward decisions and governance.
  • ● Contribute to regulatory reporting including gender and ethnicity pay gap reporting.
  • ● Reward Processes
  • ● Support the end-to-end delivery of annual compensation review cycles, including salary review, bonus modelling, configuration of Advanced Compensation module, testing, reporting and post-cycle analysis.
  • ● Maintain and enhance reward data in Workday, including compensation-related fields, job matching and reporting outputs, ensuring accuracy and compliance with internal governance.
  • ● Contribute to process improvement, automation and control enhancements across reward operations and compensation cycle delivery.
  • ● Market Insight
  • ● Co-ordinate participation in external reward surveys and benchmarking exercises, including Aon/McLagan data submissions and outputs.
  • ● Undertake job matching and cataloguing activity, applying internal career frameworks and external market frameworks consistently.
  • ● Analyse market trends, peer data and compensation insights to inform recommendations on pay positioning, ranges and reward policy application.
  • ● Operational & Stakeholder Support
  • ● Act as a knowledgeable point of contact for reward-related queries from Workday Help, HRBPs and business stakeholders, resolving issues where appropriate and escalating complex matters to Reward Consultants.
  • ● Work closely with HR, Finance, Payroll, Technology and external providers to support smooth reward process delivery, data integrity and system readiness.
  • ● Risk, Governance & Compliance
  • ● Operate within reward policies, frameworks, controls and regulatory requirements, applying strong judgement and maintaining robust audit trails.