Compensation Specialist

Company Description
**At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.**

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team - 47,000 strong - driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

**Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.**

We will give you the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion - a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

We will encourage you to grow and develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career opportunities. We believe in leadership at all levels. No matter where you sit in the organization you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and committees you join and our business.

We offer competitive pay and benefits, well-being programs to support you and your family, and the development resources you need to advance your career.

When you join us, you will connect and collaborate with a global network of experts - planners, designers, engineers, scientists, consultants, program and construction managers - leading the change toward a more sustainable and equitable future. Join us and let’s get started.

**Job Description**:
AECOM has an exciting new opportunity for an Compensation Specialist to join the team in St Albans. This will supporting across all 3 sectors including; Transportation, Building and Place's Energy, water, and Environment.

You will be reporting into the Compensation Manager, Europe, the role is dedicated to delivering a first-rate support and service to our HR Partners, Stakeholders and Employees based across the Europe Region. Total Reward Europe is focused on partnering with stakeholders to develop and deliver a best-in-class Total Reward Program to attract, develop and retain our best employees. The Compensation Analyst, Europe will be responsible for researching and responding to compensation inquiries, developing reporting and dashboards, liaising with key stakeholders, and supporting special projects.

**As a Compensation Specialist you will**:

- Responds to benchmarking requests and provide recommendations on adjustments and promotion's
- Own the compensation workstream in Workday, including reviews, approvals, and efficiencies.
- Reviews salary increases for compliance with company policy and budget
- Participate in and support data analysis requirements for annual pay and bonus reviews, budget planning, and other processes, including TUPE and acquisitions.
- Prepare and submit compensation data to market survey providers
- Provide analytical support, insights, and modelling
- Administer and support the management of the Reward in-box.
- Partner with HR Business Partners and the wider Reward team to create training and education materials.
- Support the on-going efforts to drive improvements and reduce complexity in core compensation processes.
- Work closely with HR to provide guidance and direction on compensation proposals and initiatives.
- Stay current with general compensation trends (Domestic & International) through review of relevant compensation & HR literature.
- Collaborate on special projects and support the global delivery team as needed.
- As a staff specialist, serves as the technical specialist for the compensation group.
- Receives essentially administrative supervision, with assignments given in terms of broad general objectives and limits.
- Performs most assignments independently with instruction on the general expected results.
- As an individual contributor, conceives, plans, and conducts consultation in areas of considerable scope and complexity.

**Minimum Requirements**:

- Experience of supporting a salary and bonus review cycle in a large, matrixed organisation
- Compensation/Rewards/Benefits experience
- An intuitive, analytical and pro-active approach to day-to-day work practices
- Ability to identify and drive continuous improvement opportunities
- Advanced in Excel

Additional Information

With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there’s never been a better time to be at AECOM Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits o