About the Role
LGT Wealth Management UK LLP is seeking a dedicated professional to oversee and manage payroll, benefits, and compensation processes. This role involves ensuring accuracy, compliance, and seamless administration while supporting strategic HR initiatives and employee wellbeing.
Responsibilities
- Oversee and reconcile monthly payroll submissions across UK & Jersey entities.
- Process monthly payroll, benefits, and pension reports, coordinating with providers.
- Manage statutory payroll reporting requirements and ensure compliance.
- Deliver payroll and benefit inductions to new joiners and handle related queries.
- Provide expert guidance on parental leave, salary sacrifice, and HMRC matters.
- Manage key relationships with benefits and pension vendors, resolving discrepancies.
- Process and record all benefit vendor invoices.
- Oversee annual enrolment and rate renewals for the flexible benefits platform (Darwin).
- Lead testing and rollout of the annual benefits selection window on Darwin.
- Keep the benefits portal updated with all starters, leavers, and compensation changes.
- Administer the annual Holiday Buy/Sell scheme through the benefits portal.
- Work closely with leadership to manage operational annual compensation review processes.
- Provide and adapt compensation review data analysis, highlighting key trends.
- Take a lead role with the Firm’s annual compensation benchmarking and market data exercise analysis.
- Oversee internal salary banding, job profile levelling, and role coding.
- Collate, validate, and submit annual compensation data to McLagan.
- Partner with Group Reward to provide baseline and budgetary information.
- Conduct annual pay gap compensation data analysis and contribute to payroll reporting.
- Action ad hoc visa-related payroll regulatory requirements.
- Partner with Group HR and HRBP teams to manage international assignments and related tax matters.
- Lead payroll and benefits audit processes.
- Support preparations for the EU Equal Pay Transparency Act.
- Contribute to the design of equal pay analysis.
- Maintain and develop UK Compensation & Pay Gap dashboards.
- Establish wellbeing and health-based metrics aligned to the Firm’s people strategy.
- Support the rollout of Pension Governance initiatives.
- Play an active role in the wellbeing committee, Enrich.
- Lead on event communications and host wellbeing and benefits-related events.
Requirements
- Proven experience in managing monthly UK payroll submissions.
- Proficient with Microsoft Excel (including pivot tables).
- Experience managing or coordinating external relationships with benefit and pension providers.
- Understanding of compensation review and salary benchmarking methodologies.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills.
- Collaborative team player.
- Highly proactive and hands-on approach.
- Excellent organisational skills with strong attention to detail.
- Adaptable and solutions-focused.
- Willingness to learn and support broader HR initiatives.
Skills
- ADP experience (beneficial)
- Power BI or people analytics tools (advantageous)
- Familiarity with flexible benefits platforms (e.g. Darwin)
- Experience working in a regulated environment (helpful)
Location
- London
- Edinburgh
- Jersey
- Leeds
- Birmingham
- Bristol
- Manchester
Work Type
- Full-time
Benefits
- Flexible benefits platform (Darwin)
- Holiday Buy/Sell scheme
- Wellbeing and health-based initiatives
About the Company
- LGT Wealth Management UK LLP is a UK-based partnership, wholly owned by the private banking group LGT.
- The firm offers a fresh approach to wealth management with a transparent service designed around client needs.
- They draw together in-depth knowledge and experience to provide a flexible, bespoke service.
- Their mission is to create long-term value for all stakeholders.
- Their culture encourages idea generation, development, and implementation.
- Core values include belonging, respect, integrity, conviction, and entrepreneurship.
- They have over £30 billion in funds under management and circa 700 staff.
