Senior Adviser

Senior Pay & Reward Adviser

Basis:
Permanent, Full time 36 hours per week

Salary: £40,031 - £42,033 per annum

London-based employees receive an additional £3,217 London weighting.

A £312 tax-free working from home allowance is also payable annually.

Location:

London, Belfast, Cardiff or Edinburgh Office (Hybrid - min. 2 days in office) or Remote (UK)

About the Electoral Commission

The Electoral Commission is the UK’s independent body overseeing elections and regulating political finance. Everything we do is about ensuring trust, participation, and integrity in the democratic process.

As we continue to deliver our five-year Corporate Plan, the Commission is building on a period of growth and change, expanding our workforce and modernising how we deliver our services to better support the needs of a changing democracy. As our organisation develops and adapts to meet future challenges, this post will play a vital part in supporting that progress and helping ensure we remain responsive to the democratic needs of voters, campaigners, parties and electoral administrators across the UK.

We believe people do their best work when they have the flexibility, support and recognition they need to thrive. That's why we offer flexible and hybrid working arrangements that help colleagues balance work and personal commitments, supported by a flexi-time scheme that gives greater autonomy over the working day. With generous leave allowances, a highly competitive Civil Service pension and performance-related pay, our benefits package is designed to support your wellbeing, reward your contribution and provide security for the future.

This is an opportunity to build your career in pay and reward in a role where your analysis, judgement and advice will directly influence the experience of colleagues across the Electoral Commission.

Working across People Services, you will deliver a varied portfolio covering pay reviews, promotions, retention cases, payroll assurance, statutory and contractual pay, job evaluation, benchmarking and reward. You will work with colleagues and senior stakeholders to turn complex pay information into clear, practical advice and support fair, consistent and evidence-based decisions.

No two periods of the year will look exactly the same. You could be analysing pay data and identifying an issue, reviewing payroll outputs, advising on a complex pay case or contributing evidence to future reward and benefits decisions.

• deliver annual and ad hoc pay activity, providing professional advice and constructive challenge to support fair and consistent decisions
• review and validate payroll outputs, investigating discrepancies and coordinating their resolution
• calculate and validate statutory and contractual pay entitlements, including family-related and sickness pay
• analyse pay and reward data, undertake benchmarking, job evaluation and reporting, and translate findings into clear recommendations
• contribute to the development of our reward and benefits approach by analysing uptake, cost, value and market information
• provide technical guidance and coaching to colleagues, sharing your knowledge and helping build capability across People Services
• identify practical improvements to our processes, guidance and controls, helping make our services simpler, more accurate and effective.

You will join a newly created team within People Services, giving you an exciting opportunity to be part of the team as it develops and establishes new ways of working.

We want to bring together colleagues with different experiences, perspectives and ideas. You will be encouraged to share what you have learned elsewhere, contribute ideas and help us develop practical, effective ways of…