Head of Reward & Data Analytics

At Urban Partners, we believe that cities can be a force for good. As a leading European investment firm, we work across the built environment to create sustainable, positive impact in the communities where we invest while delivering attractive returns to the global institutions who invest with us.

We are now searching for a Head of Reward & Data Analytics Director to join our international People & Culture team.

The position

This role is perfect for someone who has a long history of managing reward and incentive structures across multiple asset classes including Private Equity, has owned and managed global year-end cycles and has a passion for people-related strategies.

Area of responsibilities

• Be the subject matter expert to the Remuneration Committee and Partners
• Understand our remuneration and incentives, across geographies and their asset-class specifics, and be the trusted source to influence a broad set of stakeholders
• Own the promote allocation process and annual compensation review
• Lead both the promote allocation process, and the annual compensation review process; alongside company-wide projects
• Ensure that our approach to remuneration and incentives aligns with all regulatory requirements across our jurisdictions
• Be a thought leader as a senior member of the People & Culture team; analysing and recommending strategies to improve the overall employee value proposition, and the effectiveness and efficiency of the team.

Position top tasks

• Manage promote processes: pool splits, allocation models, launch, and ongoing operations
• Manage all components of annual compensation review: bonus and salary pool determination, market benchmarking, promotions, systems and communication strategies
• Own data People & Culture analytics, reporting, and visualisation
• Participate in People & Culture and company-wide projects
• Work closely with a broad set of stakeholders: Remuneration Committee, senior management, Finance, Tax, Legal and Compliance, and manage external providers
• Compensation and incentive package design across all levels
• Develop our approach to job architecture, levelling, data systems, reporting, and data visualisation to enhance our ability to make decisions quickly and accurately
• Maintain a close eye on regulatory developments across our jurisdictions, and develop policies to support

Work experience

• Min 15+ years as reward specialist (with a preference for more)
• Managed/operated global carried interest plans, processes, operations
• Extensive experience owning/running global compensation reviews
• Extensive experience with global remuneration committees and c-suite
• Executive compensation and incentive design
• Senior stakeholder management
• Experience operating and influencing outside of Human Resources – eg Finance, Legal, Risk, Compliance, Operations
• Experience with job mapping and role levelling
• M&A experience: assessing, integrating, standardising
• Deep experience with global financial regulations
• Worked across several industries in financial services
• Extensive experience in global financial hubs
• Experience with employee mobility
• Policy creation
• Systems: implementation, integration, management, RFI/RFPs, HRIS, ATS, payroll
• Data surfacing and visualisation tools
• 3rd party provider relationship management
• Strong connections in the marketplace with other reward and industry professionals

Education requirements

• Master’s Degree or local equivalent – topic less relevant, Human Resources or Finance likely
• Professional certification, Human Resources or Finance likely
• Fully proficient in English, and another European language