Reward Specialist

Job title:  Reward Specialist

Location: London - Hybrid 

Salary: £75,000 - £100,000

Team:  People Team

Reporting To: People Operations & Reward Director

This role is based in London and requires existing right to work in the UK.

At this time, we are not able to offer visa sponsorship for this role. We are committed to building a diverse, global team and our sponsorship policy is evaluated on a role-by-role basis. We encourage you to keep an eye on our careers site to stay informed about future opportunities where we are able to offer visa sponsorship.

Kaluza is the Energy Intelligence Platform, turning energy complexity into seamless coordination. We help energy companies overcome today’s challenges while accelerating the shift to a clean, electrified future.

Our platform orchestrates millions of real-time decisions across homes, devices, markets and grids. By combining predictive algorithms with human-centred design, Kaluza makes clean energy dependable, affordable and adaptive to everyday life.With teams across Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, and a joint venture with Mitsubishi Corporation in Japan, we power leading companies including OVO, AGL and ENGIE, as well as innovators like Volvo and Volkswagen.

What will I be doing?

We are looking for a talented Reward Specialist to join our growing team.  As a fast-growing scale-up organisation, we have already put some key Reward & Benefits infrastructure in place. But you will have a huge opportunity to redefine & iterate elements of our offering across global compensation, bonus, commission, equity and more!

Key Responsibilities

The key objective of this role is to design, implement and manage the organisation’s reward and benefits framework, ensuring competitiveness in the market, alignment to business strategy, and compliance with legislation.You will provide expert advice to the People team (HR) and business leaders on pay, recognition, and benefits, supporting employee engagement and retention.

• Lead the annual pay review and bonus cycle, working closely with People Partners and Finance.
• Manage the company’s pay band structures, ensuring internal control and external competitiveness.
• Support leadership on all aspects of executive reward—including the design, governance, and administration of senior leadership and executive bonus schemes, ensuring proposals are market-aligned, compliant, and clearly documented for approval.
• Own the day-to-day administration and employee communication of the equity (share) scheme, including the issuance of new shares and share certificates.
• Review and manage the organisation’s benefits offering (pension, healthcare, insurance, wellbeing, salary sacrifice schemes).
• Lead relationships with benefits providers, brokers and consultants.
• Provide detailed reward analysis, benchmarking and market insights to inform business decisions.
• Ensure compliance with applicable local law (e.g. for the UK HMRC reporting, P11D, Gender Pay Gap, pay transparency).
• Deliver clear, engaging employee communications on reward and benefits programmes.

About You

Ideally you’ll have/be

• Demonstrable experience in Reward / Compensation & Benefits roles. This could be from a variety of backgrounds, e.g. a market data consultancy, financial services, tech, start-up/scale-up or some combination.
• Experience working with Reward market data providers such as Aon Radford and Ravio.
• Strong analytical skills with an intermediate-to-advanced level of Excel proficiency (Vlookups, index:match, pivot tables, ability to present data in graphs & charts).
• Experience managing annual reward cycles in a mid- or large-sized organisation.
• The ability to manage both strategic projects and day-to-day operations. 
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.  Strong interpersonal impact.
• Desirable not essential: Experience in establishing and overseeing the governance structure of Remuneration Committees (RemCos) and in working closely with them on executive reward matters.

What will set you apart 

• You are equally happy with your head down in a spreadsheet as you are presenting to C-level executives. The role will range from presenting strategy to the CFO, to responding to an employee’s query about their benefits enrolment.
• The ability to work in a scale-up environment where processes are not always mapped, and you have to create structure from multiple disparate data sources.
• A passion for the practical use of AI in your day-to-day work, to drive efficiency gains in administrative work to enable a greater focus on strategic value.

Kaluza Values
Here at Kaluza we have five core values that guide us as a business: Play to win, Solve the real problem, Build trust every day, Own the outcome, Go further together.

Our Perks

• Pension Scheme
• Discretionary Bonus Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance + Virtual GP
• Life Assurance
• Access to Furthr - a Climate Action app
• Free Mortgage Advice and Eye Tests
• Perks at Work - access to thousands of retail discounts
• 5% Flex Fund - to spend on the benefits you want most
• 26 days holiday
• Flexible Bank Holidays - Giving you an additional 8 days which you can choose to take whenever you like
• Progressive Leave Policy - With no qualifying service periods, including 26 weeks full pay if you have a new addition to your family
• Personal Learning Budget - Upskill, learn and grow!
• Home Office Budget
• And more!

We want the best people

We’re keen to meet people from all walks of life — our view is that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We want to build teams which represent a variety of experiences, perspectives and skills, and we recognise talent on the basis of merit and potential.

We understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they tick every box. But if you're excited about joining us and think you have some of what we're looking for, even if you're not 100% sure, we'd still love to hear from you.

Find out more about working in Kaluza on our careers page and LinkedIn. 

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