Description
Reward Project Analyst
Location: London
Working Pattern: Hybrid – 2 days per week in the office
Contract: Temporary
Pay Rate: £18.44 per hour PAYE / £23.35 per hour Umbrella
We are currently supporting one of London's largest and most established housing organisations to recruit a Reward Project Analyst on a temporary basis.
With a strong social purpose and a focus on providing high-quality homes and services to residents and communities across London, the organisation is undergoing a range of important People and organisational initiatives. This is an excellent opportunity to join a collaborative People function and play a key role in supporting reward, pay and grading activity.
About the Role
Reporting to the Reward Lead, you will provide analytical, reporting and project support across a range of reward and people-related activities.
You will work closely with colleagues across People, Payroll, Finance and People Systems, as well as senior leaders and external benchmarking providers. The role will involve maintaining accurate reward data, supporting benchmarking and job evaluation activity, producing analysis and reports, and helping to ensure reward decisions are consistent, evidence-based and aligned with organisational frameworks.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain accurate reward, pay, grading and organisational data, ensuring records and audit trails are complete and up to date.
- Analyse reward and workforce data to support pay, grading, benchmarking and wider reward activities.
- Support the development and maintenance of role profiles, job families, career pathways and job architecture documentation.
- Coordinate and support job evaluation and benchmarking activities.
- Produce reward reports, analysis and briefing materials for stakeholders and governance discussions.
- Undertake data validation and quality assurance, identifying and resolving data issues.
- Support annual reward activities, organisational change initiatives and wider reward projects.
- Work closely with the Reward Lead and wider People Team to resolve queries and improve reward processes.
- Prepare reports, presentations and stakeholder materials to clearly communicate findings and insights.
About You
We're looking for someone with strong analytical and organisational skills who is comfortable working with data and supporting projects.
You should have:
- Experience gathering, maintaining and analysing data and information.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify trends and present findings clearly.
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills and experience using systems to manage data and produce reports.
- Experience maintaining accurate records, audit trails and supporting documentation.
- Experience supporting role profiling, job evaluation, benchmarking, organisational design or workforce-related activity — or the ability to quickly develop knowledge in these areas.
- Knowledge of reward, pay, grading, People processes or workforce data.
- Experience producing reports, presentations or briefing materials.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- The ability to work collaboratively across multiple teams and manage competing priorities.
Desirable Experience
- Previous experience within Reward, HR, People & Culture, workforce planning or organisational change.
- Familiarity with job evaluation methodologies, grading structures, market benchmarking or job architecture.
- Experience supporting role profiles, job families or career pathway documentation.
Why Apply?
This is a great opportunity for an experienced Reward Analyst, HR Analyst, People Analyst or Project Analyst to gain further experience within a large, purpose-led organisation.
You will be joining a collaborative People team and contributing to projects that directly support how the organisation attracts, develops, rewards and retains its workforce.
If you have strong analytical skills, excellent attention to detail and an interest in Reward and People projects, we'd love to hear from you.