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The Executive Compensation team is responsible for a wide and varied remit which includes regulatory reporting, remuneration disclosures, remuneration governance, and responding to the European remuneration regulations. The team also manages other key activities such as assisting with the public disclosure of Directors Emoluments, dealing with senior employee compensation matters and handling employee equity queries, in addition to a variety of firmwide projects and initiatives.

The successful individual will be involved in the following activities:

• Preparation / review of regulatory submissions
• Determination of Material Risk Taker population
• Preparation / review of public remuneration disclosures
• Drafting responses to regulatory queries
• Preparation of materials for remuneration committee meetings
• Involvement in ad hoc projects as required to respond to changes in remuneration rules
• Involvement in director’s emoluments reporting
• Other annual executive remuneration processes
• Coordinate with colleagues in the Firmwide Compensation team - together with other departments such as Equity Compensation, Benefits, Recruiting, Controllers, Legal and Tax

To be successful in performing and developing in this role, you will need to demonstrate exposure and experience in the majority of the following areas:

• At least 3 years reward/compensation experience, with some functional knowledge of Executive Compensation practices and European remuneration regulations preferred
• Good communication and relationship management skills - ability to understand and articulate complex issues
• Excellent analytical skills - an ability to review current processes and/or data, detect and correct errors, take responsibility for data quality
• Project management - prioritize workload and meet deadlines
• Ability to understand and consider requirements of Firmwide functions, divisions and regions
• Client service focus, notable responsiveness and a "can-do" attitude
• Good judgment - knowing when to escalate an issue combined with a willingness to be flexible
• Strong Excel skills required
• Thorough attention to detail

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Functional Expertise - keeps up-to-date with emerging business, economic, and market trends
• Technical Skills - demonstrates strong technical skills required for the role, pays attention to detail, takes initiative to broaden knowledge and demonstrates appropriate financial/analytical skills
• Drive and Motivation - successfully handles multiple tasks, takes initiative to improve own performance, works intensely towards extremely challenging goals and persists in the face of obstacles or setbacks
• Client and Business Focus - effectively handles difficult requests, builds trusting, long-term relationships with clients, helps the client to identify/define needs and manages client/business expectations
• Teamwork – gives evidence of being a strong team player, collaborates with others within and across teams, encourages other team members to participate and contribute and acknowledges others' contributions
• Communication Skills - communicates what is relevant and important in a clear and concise manner and shares information/new ideas with others
• Judgement and Problem solving - thinks ahead, anticipates questions, plans for contingencies, finds alternative solutions and identifies clear objectives. Sees the big picture and effectively analyses complex issues