EMEA VP Compensation

EMEA VP Compensation

There comes a point in many Reward careers when the question isn’t simply “what’s my next title?” but “who am I learning from, and how much better am I becoming?”

This opportunity is aimed squarely at someone asking themselves that question.

An established international financial services organisation is seeking a Reward Manager to join its EMEA HR team in London, working alongside a highly respected Reward leadership team with a strong track record of developing talented compensation professionals.

This is not a role for somebody looking for a quick promotion or title inflation. It is an opportunity for an ambitious, intellectually curious Reward professional who wants to raise their game, deepen their technical expertise and learn how a sophisticated Reward function really operates.

You’ll gain exposure across compensation, governance, regulation, market intelligence and strategic Reward projects, with the support and challenge needed to become a genuinely well-rounded Financial Services Reward practitioner.

The Role

As a key member of the EMEA Reward team, you’ll support both annual compensation delivery and a broader programme of strategic and regulatory Reward activity.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Supporting annual compensation and salary review processes across EMEA.
• Designing and implementing Reward frameworks, policies and governance structures.
• Managing complex compensation datasets where accuracy, consistency and attention to detail are critical.
• Delivering market benchmarking and compensation analytics to support business decision-making.
• Supporting remuneration governance, committee activity and regulatory reporting.
• Leading aspects of Material Risk Taker identification and administration.
• Contributing to projects including salary structures, pay transparency readiness and wider Reward programme development.
• Providing thoughtful, pragmatic Reward guidance to HR colleagues, managers and senior stakeholders.
• Continually identifying where processes, controls and reporting can be improved.

About You

We’re looking for someone with strong Compensation/Reward foundations who is ambitious enough to want more from their career, but equally self-aware enough to know there is still plenty to learn.

You’ll ideally bring:

• Experience across compensation, benchmarking and annual Reward cycles, within Financial Services.
• Strong analytical capability and confidence working with large, complex datasets.
• An understanding of Financial Services remuneration regulation, ideally including CRD V and MRT requirements.
• Experience preparing materials for senior stakeholders and governance forums.
• Exceptional attention to detail and a willingness to hold yourself to increasingly high standards.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• A collaborative, low-ego approach and a willingness to listen, learn and contribute as part of a close-knit team.
• Intellectual curiosity and the confidence to ask questions rather than assume you already know the answer.
• Experience using McLagan or comparable compensation market data would be advantageous, but is not essential.

Why Join?

This is where the opportunity really differentiates itself.

You’ll be joining senior Reward practitioners who are willing to invest time in developing you, while also expecting you to continually improve.

For somebody who perhaps feels they have reached the limit of what they can learn in their current environment, this offers the opportunity to accelerate your development through exposure to complex work, high standards and genuinely experienced Reward leadership. You’ll develop across the full Reward agenda, from annual compensation and market intelligence through to regulation, governance, executive-level decision support and strategic programme design. You’ll be trusted with meaningful responsibility, but you’ll also have people around you who will challenge your thinking, help identify the gaps in your experience and give you the opportunity to close them. If your motivation is to become a genuinely rounded Financial Services Reward professional rather than simply acquire the next title, this could be an unusually good place to do it.

Location: St Paul’s / Bank, London

Working pattern: Hybrid, 3 days per week in the office

The SR Group (UK) Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.