Compensation Associate

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KBR is a global provider of differentiated, professional services and technologies delivered across a wide government, defense and industrial base. Drawing from its rich 100-year history and culture of innovation and mission focus, KBR creates sustainable value by combining engineering, technical and scientific expertise with its full life cycle capabilities to help our clients meet their most pressing challenges today and into the future.

KBR employs approximately 29,000 people worldwide (including our joint ventures), with customers in more than 80 countries, and operations in 40 countries, across two synergistic global businesses.

The Compensation Associate in PARC (People Advice & Resource Centre) will support the payroll team by ensuring payroll operations run smoothly and follow best practices. The main goal is to help create a positive experience for both employees and the business.

Working closely with the PARC team and our onshore and offshore Finance teams, you will assist in compensation-related tasks for KBR UK entities. Your responsibilities will include helping with pre-payroll activities, maintaining employee records, triaging employee queries, and supporting the rollout of the new Workday Global payroll system.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to build or grow their career in payroll, compensation, and benefits. You'll gain hands-on experience across a wide range of payroll and compensation processes within a supportive and collaborative team environment.

This is a development opportunity and training will be provided to help you deepen your knowledge of UK payroll operations, HR systems, and employment compliance.

If you're organised, detail-oriented, and eager to learn, this role offers the chance to be part of a dynamic organisation where your work will make a real impact.

Responsibilities

• Support pre-payroll administrative tasks for pay cycles for multiple business units.
• Assist with processing of leavers, including termination payments, holiday calculations, redundancies and settlement agreements.
• Assist in calculating and processing family leave, overtime, bonuses, and all other ad-hoc pay adjustments.
• Help coordinate the administration of UK employee benefits schemes
• Provide support for global compensation and benefits projects.
• Assist with reconciling and submitting monthly Charity reports, working alongside Finance and external partners.
• Help identify and suggest process improvements to streamline payroll and benefits tasks.
• Maintain positive working relationships with stakeholders, including PARC, Finance teams, business units and external vendors.
• Support the Compensation & Benefits Manager and team with ad-hoc administrative tasks.
• Maintain accurate records and data management in HR and payroll systems.

Essential Experience, Skills & Knowledge

• Experienced administrator.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Excel (e.g., basic formulas, VLOOKUPs desirable).
• Competence using Microsoft Office packages (Word, Outlook, etc.).
• Willingness to learn and develop knowledge of UK employment law, GDPR, and compliance requirements.

Desirable (but not essential)

• Previous experience in payroll, finance, or banking (desirable)
• Experience working with HR systems like SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, or Workday

KBR Company Information

When you become part of the KBR team, your opportunities are endless. Through collaboration with our customers, we’re defining tomorrow’s challenges, then providing the solutions and services to overcome those challenges, always maintaining our commitment to total safety and reliability.

At KBR, we partner with government and industry clients to provide purposeful and comprehensive solutions with an emphasis on efficiency and safety. With a full portfolio of services, proprietary technologies and expertise, our employees are ready to handle projects and missions throughout their entire lifecycle, from planning and design to sustainability and maintenance. Whether at the bottom of the ocean or in outer space, our clients trust us to deliver the impossible on a daily basis.

Working at KBR means being rewarded for your contributions. In addition to competitive benefits and professional development, our people are empowered to use all their potential, creating meaningful change for themselves and our clients. We attract the best minds in the world because our expertise thrives on creativity, resourcefulness and collaboration. That is how we supply our clients with cutting-edge solutions and services.

As the needs of the world change, we’re ready to respond and guide the way forward with strategic, sustainable, and technological advancements grounded in more than a century of practical application and execution.

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