Quilter

Reward Analyst

Southampton Full time

About the Business

Quilter plc is a leading wealth management business, helping to enable brighter financial futures for every generation.
Quilter oversees £126.3 billion in customer investments (as of August 2025). It has an adviser and customer offering spanning financial advice, investment platforms, multi-asset investment solutions, and discretionary fund management. The business is comprised of two segments: Affluent and High Net Worth.
Affluent encompasses the financial planning business, Quilter Financial Planning, the Quilter Investment Platform and Quilter Investors, the multi-asset investment solutions business.
High Net Worth includes the discretionary fund management business, Quilter Cheviot, together with Quilter Cheviot Financial Planning – offering a highly personalised service to private clients, charities, trustees, and professional partners. Quilter Cheviot has presence throughout the UK, Ireland and Channel Islands.
At Quilter we never stand still. Our foundations are rooted in our extraordinary expertise, which is trusted by hundreds of thousands of customers, but we have great ambitions to stay one step ahead and make an even greater difference to the people and communities we serve, including our colleagues.
Our business is transforming, continually modernising, and becoming even more customer centric. So, if you want to be bold in the pursuit of your ambitions, bring new ideas, and challenge and evolve what we do, it’s the perfect time to join us!

About the Role

Level: 3

Contract: permanent

Location: Southampton (Hybrid)

Department: HR

As a Reward Analyst you will focus on the data and analytics required to support all aspects of the annual compensation processes at Quilter. One of our most important processes is the Group’s annual salary and incentive cycle in Q1 each year, which to deliver requires a raft of activities across the team, that you will play a key role in.

The emphasis will be on all data elements that form part of our compensation cycle, which will include activities such as the completion and analysis of market data compensation surveys, the maintenance of incentive accrual files provided for our colleagues in Finance, the maintenance and evolution of Reward-built employee job matching and benchmarking databases, the development and testing of our year-end compensation tool (PayScale), and the upkeep of other Reward systems and trackers as required. We also have a peer-to-peer employee recognition platform (Thank Q) for which this role will support both its ongoing maintenance (including running engagement campaigns with our Internal Communications colleagues) and the suite of associated quarterly reporting for the platform’s use and effectiveness.

This role will also support with the preparation and analysis of the various annual regulatory disclosures that Quilter is required to make, such as Gender and Ethnicity Pay Gap calculations and Real Living Wage monitoring, amongst others.

In addition, the role will give you the opportunity to partner with the wider HR function and directly with the business where appropriate, supporting with technical reward guidance and other advisory services. This may include tasks such as composing salary and incentive package recommendations for new hires and internal moves/promotions (supported with the most relevant benchmarking data), ensuring that any proposals are in keeping with our diversity and inclusion principles and Equal Pay regulations. Other advisory tasks may include the preparation of employee redundancy and exit schedules, practical advice on reward governance and controls, providing market trends and insights as required, plus employee reward cost analysis and more.

There will also be the opportunity to contribute to project work as we support our HR, Finance and wider business colleagues with Quilter’s strategic priorities and the impact that employee reward has on these. The role will involve making use of artificial intelligence (Copilot) where applicable, with the aim of improving our overall proposition and increasing productivity within the team.

Consumer Duty

Whilst this isn’t a directly customer facing role, the Reward frameworks and pay structures that we support and maintain seek to ensure that Quilter attracts and retains talented employees. This means our customers are then served by motivated, high-performing staff who are fairly rewarded for their work. By analysing and preparing regulatory disclosures, such as Gender and Ethnicity Pay Gap reports and Real Living Wage monitoring, this role supports our commitment to transparency and fairness, which can build trust with customers who can see that Quilter values ethical pay practices and inclusivity.

About You

  • Relevant experience working within a similar Reward role is essential, whereby you have ideally supported 2-3 compensation cycles previously.

  • A particular understanding and familiarity with the kinds of roles and team structures within the Financial Services sector would be preferred, as would a working understanding of Willis Towers Watson and McLagan compensation data

  • Demonstrable experience of working with data and a high level of proficiency with MS Office applications, in particular MS Excel is essential. Workday HCM knowledge and/or Curo Compensation (PayScale) would be beneficial.

  • You will have a high level of numeracy and an analytical mindset with a need to be comfortable with handling large sets of data, ideally within a Financial Services or other relevant context.

  • Experience of using Copilot/other AI solutions to create efficiencies would be beneficial.

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Inclusion & Diversity

We value diversity and strive to promote inclusivity in all aspects of our culture. We believe in equal opportunities for all, ensuring that no applicant encounters less favourable treatment based on anything but their skills, qualifications, experience, and potential. We celebrate the unique contributions of a diverse workforce and create a respectful, nurturing environment where every colleague can thrive.

Values

Do the right thing: We act with integrity and are proudly committed to going above and beyond in service of our clients and the support we provide our communities.
Always curious: We continuously seek new ideas and knowledge so we’re one step ahead of our clients’ needs. We look for inspiration everywhere and encourage experimentation, recognising that this is how we create brilliant solutions for brighter futures.
Embrace challenge: We aim high to transform our potential into meaningful outcomes. With ambition as our driving force and a steadfast commitment to growth, we succeed for the good of every generation.
Stronger together: Combining our diverse talents, we accomplish more collectively than we ever could do alone. We speak openly, actively listen, and support each other, and constructively challenge and embrace new ideas. We seek empowerment and demonstrate ownership and trust, with the confidence to make impactful decisions.

Core Benefits

Holiday: 182 hours (26 days)

Quilter Incentive Scheme: All employees are eligible to participate in incentive scheme, to incentivise business performance and their contribution.

Pension Scheme: A non-contributory company pension scheme that can be boosted through personal contributions.

Private Medical Insurance: Single cover as standard with options to increase cover to include your partner or children.

Life Assurance: 4x your salary.

Income Protection: 75% of salary, less state benefits, payable after 26 weeks of absence.

Healthcare Cash Plan: Jersey employees only

In addition to our core benefits, we offer a range of flexible benefits to UK employees that you can choose from and pay for conveniently via a salary deduction.