Reward and Payroll Manager

Our Reward and Payroll Manager plays a key role in shaping and delivering the reward strategy for The R&A. Working as part of the People Team, you will ensure our pay, benefits and recognition approach supports the attraction, engagement and retention of talented people across the organisation. This is a broad and influential role, combining strategic thinking with hands-on delivery, ensuring that pay, benefits and incentive programmes are competitive, fair, and legally compliant.

• Own end-to-end oversight of the monthly payroll process, including monthly payroll checks and sign-off.
• Ensure accurate, timely payment for all employees, balancing hands-on involvement with supervision of a small team.
• Maintain strict adherence to statutory regulations, including HMRC requirements, P11Ds, P60s and national minimum wage legislation.
• Lead the annual salary review, bonus and incentive processes as part of reward strategy and delivery.
• Ensure reward policies and practices remain competitive, equitable and compliant.
• Produce reward analytics and insights, including future gender pay gap reporting, benchmarking and workforce trends.
• Manage the organisation's benefits offering, including pension, healthcare, wellbeing and flexible benefits.
• Manage relationships with external benefits suppliers and internal stakeholders.
• Lead the design and delivery of recognition programmes that celebrate achievement and reinforce organisational values.

• Significant experience in reward, compensation and benefits within a medium or large organisation.
• Strong knowledge of pay frameworks, benefits, pensions and reward governance, and relevant employment and pension legislation.
• Experience managing annual pay review, benchmarking, statutory reporting including gender pay gap reporting, and benefit provider relationships and market reviews.
• Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to interpret data and provide clear, commercially focussed recommendations.
• Strong written and oral communication, stakeholder management and influencing skills, with experience collaborating across People, Finance and leadership teams.
• Ability to balance strategic initiatives with operational delivery in a pragmatic and detail focussed way.
• Trusted to handle confidential information with discretion, diplomacy and professionalism.
• Curious and confident in challenging existing approaches, bringing fresh ideas and contributing to the People team plan.

• CIPD qualification or equivalent experience.

• Conduct annual market benchmarking to ensure competitive salary and benefits packages, using job evaluation methodologies.

• Company pension scheme and sick pay
• Life insurance cover
• Enhanced maternity/partner pay
• 35 days holiday per year
• Free tickets to The Open and AIG Women's Open each year, and other relevant R&A Championships
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Season Ticket Loan
• Discounts available across 800 UK retailers and local businesses
• Including gym memberships
• Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice Scheme