Can you use data, insight and strong Excel skills to support fair and consistent pay decisions? Make an immediate impact at Buro Happold.
We are a growing global practice of world‑class engineers, designers and advisors, united by a commitment to delivering sustainable outcomes and putting our people at the heart of everything we do.
We are seeking a Senior Reward Analyst to join our Global Reward team on a 6‑month fixed‑term contract, playing a key role in supporting our annual pay review cycle. This is a delivery‑focused role suited to someone highly numerate, detail‑driven and confident working with complex reward data in Excel.
About The Role
Reporting to the Head of Global Reward, you will support the preparation, analysis and governance of pay review activity across the business. Working closely with Reward, HR and Finance colleagues, you will help ensure pay decisions are robust, consistent and underpinned by high‑quality data.
This role is particularly suited to someone who enjoys working at pace, handling sensitive data, and using advanced Excel skills to support large‑scale, time‑critical reward processes.
What you’ll be doing:
- Support the end‑to‑end annual pay review process, including data preparation, validation and analysis.
- Build, maintain and adapt Excel models to support pay proposals, scenarios and affordability checks.
- Assist with salary benchmarking and market data analysis to inform pay decisions.
- Produce clear, accurate reporting and summary outputs for senior stakeholders
- Perform detailed reconciliations and sense‑checking to ensure data accuracy and governance.
- Respond to ad‑hoc analysis requests during the pay review, often to tight deadlines
- Support documentation of assumptions, decisions and methodologies for audit and transparency.
- Work collaboratively with Reward and HR colleagues to ensure consistent application of reward principles.
What We Are Looking For:
- Proven experience in reward, compensation or reward analytics, ideally including pay review activity.
- Strong Excel skills, including complex formulas, lookups, pivot tables and large‑dataset handling.
- High levels of numeracy, accuracy and attention to detail.
- Experience producing data‑driven analysis and reports for stakeholder review.
- The ability to work discreetly with confidential and sensitive information.
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast‑paced environment.
- Clear communication skills and a collaborative, supportive working style.
- Experience in job evaluation, benchmarking or reward processes (desirable but not essential).
Why Join Buro Happold?
At Buro Happold, we believe in creating a better, more sustainable world. You’ll be part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and excellence. We offer a supportive environment where your contributions make a real difference.
What we Offer You:
Bring your knowledge and expertise to one of the world’s most respected consultancies.
- Hybrid working arrangements
- Attractive salary
- Discretionary bonus
- Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum (exclusive of bank holidays) and flexible holiday arrangements
- Generous company pension scheme, life assurance and income protection
- Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts
- Enhanced parenthood leave policies
- A strong commitment to continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you
- Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions
- A commitment to your wellbeing through a comprehensive employee assistance programme and wellbeing activities
- An opportunity to support your local community and those in society that are most in need, wherever they are located in the world through our Share Our Skills (SOS) programme
- A supportive and inclusive environment that will welcome you through social and outreach activities from the Young Employees Forum to mentoring
- An international culture that wherever your career takes you at Buro Happold, you won't be far from exceptional.
Apply now and be where exceptional is everywhere.
A place for everyone
Buro Happold values individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of the way you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.
Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.
We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment and are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing difference allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.
Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact recruitment@burohappold.com so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.
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