Payroll, Pension & Reward Manager
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Occupation Type
Book-keepers, payroll managers and wages clerks
Occupation Code Skill LevelMedium Skilled
Sponsorship Salary Threshold
£41,700
(£21.38 per hour)
Standard minimum applies
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Description
Job Description
Payroll, Pensions & Reward Manager
Location: London or Ipswich (Suffolk)
Hybrid: 3 days per week onsite
Salary: Circa £75,000 + 5% bonus
Holiday: 28 days + bank holidays (rising to 30 after 5 years)
Pension: Up to 15% employer contribution
Closing Date: Thursday 19 March 2026
About The Role
Sizewell C is one of the UK’s most significant infrastructure projects. As our workforce grows, we are building a modern People function to support thousands of employees.
We are seeking an experienced Payroll, Pensions & Reward Manager to design and lead our long‑term operating model. You will shape the strategy for payroll, pensions and reward (in‑house vs outsourced), oversee day‑to‑day service delivery, and ensure compliance, accuracy and best practice across the function.
This role combines strategic leadership, operational oversight, vendor management, and senior stakeholder engagement.
Key Responsibilities
Payroll, Pensions & Reward Manager
Location: London or Ipswich (Suffolk)
Hybrid: 3 days per week onsite
Salary: Circa £75,000 + 5% bonus
Holiday: 28 days + bank holidays (rising to 30 after 5 years)
Pension: Up to 15% employer contribution
Closing Date: Thursday 19 March 2026
About The Role
Sizewell C is one of the UK’s most significant infrastructure projects. As our workforce grows, we are building a modern People function to support thousands of employees.
We are seeking an experienced Payroll, Pensions & Reward Manager to design and lead our long‑term operating model. You will shape the strategy for payroll, pensions and reward (in‑house vs outsourced), oversee day‑to‑day service delivery, and ensure compliance, accuracy and best practice across the function.
This role combines strategic leadership, operational oversight, vendor management, and senior stakeholder engagement.
Key Responsibilities
- Design the long‑term payroll, pensions and reward operating model
- Lead daily payroll, reward and benefits operations
- Act as the senior escalation point for complex queries
- Manage outsourced payroll, reward and pensions providers
- Validate and sign off payroll files for audit and compliance
- Lead salary/benefits benchmarking and reward strategy
- Oversee DC pension scheme administration
- Produce reporting and insights for HR SLT and the Remuneration Committee.
- Ensure all processes meet legal, audit and governance standards
- Support major change activity and stakeholder engagement
- Extensive experience in Payroll, Reward and/or Pensions leadership
- Strong hands‑on payroll & reward expertise, with benefits experience
- Experience designing or managing in‑house/outsourced operating models
- CIPD Level 7, finance or equivalent qualification
- Confident managing providers, SLAs and compliance
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills and attention to detail
- Experience in large, fast‑paced, complex organisations
Desirable
Play a defining role in a nationally significant project that will power millions of homes and contribute to the UK’s long‑term energy security. This is a rare opportunity to build and shape a critical HR function from the ground up.
If you thrive in complex environments and enjoy leading strategic, high‑impact work, we’d love to hear from you.
Apply now!
Additional Information
Join the team at Sizewell C. Our vision is to Lead The Way On Nuclear.
The Sizewell C team is one of the most exciting and largest new megaprojects in the UK, whilst being at the forefront of the UK’s climate change agenda and energy policy. We have begun constructing a 3.2-gigawatt nuclear power station on the Suffolk coast in the East of England replicating, wherever possible, the design used for Hinkley Point C, another nuclear power station being built in Somerset.
When built, Sizewell C will be one of the largest power stations to operate in the UK. The power station will generate low carbon electricity for at least 60 years, supplying over 6 million homes and supporting around 7% of the UK’s current electricity needs.
Our vision is to Lead The Way On Nuclear
- Strong analytical and benchmarking skills
- Project management and change experience
- Knowledge of UK employment law and DC pension regulations
Play a defining role in a nationally significant project that will power millions of homes and contribute to the UK’s long‑term energy security. This is a rare opportunity to build and shape a critical HR function from the ground up.
If you thrive in complex environments and enjoy leading strategic, high‑impact work, we’d love to hear from you.
Apply now!
Additional Information
Join the team at Sizewell C. Our vision is to Lead The Way On Nuclear.
The Sizewell C team is one of the most exciting and largest new megaprojects in the UK, whilst being at the forefront of the UK’s climate change agenda and energy policy. We have begun constructing a 3.2-gigawatt nuclear power station on the Suffolk coast in the East of England replicating, wherever possible, the design used for Hinkley Point C, another nuclear power station being built in Somerset.
When built, Sizewell C will be one of the largest power stations to operate in the UK. The power station will generate low carbon electricity for at least 60 years, supplying over 6 million homes and supporting around 7% of the UK’s current electricity needs.
Our vision is to Lead The Way On Nuclear
. We want Sizewell C to define what good leadership for the nuclear industry and British infrastructure looks like and deliver on it. We understand the feats of organisation, logistics, collaboration and imagination that building nuclear requires. We are building for the next generation for their home-grown energy, energy price stability and ultra-low carbon power in abundance. We also want to set the benchmark for maximising long-lasting social value as we build and demonstrate how smart collaboration can work for the benefit of communities – locally, regionally and nationally.
We are the first nuclear power station in the UK to be funded under the Regulated Asset Base funding model (RAB). Our largest shareholder is the UK Government, alongside equity partners La Caisse, Centrica, EDF and Amber Infrastructure.
Sizewell C operates within a complex and fast-moving stakeholder environment, engaging with a wide range of partners including government bodies, regulators, local communities, supply chain partners, and international collaborators. This makes Sizewell C a uniquely stimulating place to work — where navigating evolving priorities, balancing interests, and building trusted relationships is just as critical as technical excellence. For those who thrive in dynamic, multi-dimensional settings, it offers unmatched professional challenge and growth.
When joining Sizewell C, you may wonder why you are contacted by colleagues with an EDF email or see the
We are the first nuclear power station in the UK to be funded under the Regulated Asset Base funding model (RAB). Our largest shareholder is the UK Government, alongside equity partners La Caisse, Centrica, EDF and Amber Infrastructure.
Sizewell C operates within a complex and fast-moving stakeholder environment, engaging with a wide range of partners including government bodies, regulators, local communities, supply chain partners, and international collaborators. This makes Sizewell C a uniquely stimulating place to work — where navigating evolving priorities, balancing interests, and building trusted relationships is just as critical as technical excellence. For those who thrive in dynamic, multi-dimensional settings, it offers unmatched professional challenge and growth.
When joining Sizewell C, you may wonder why you are contacted by colleagues with an EDF email or see the
EDF logo on portals that you access and/or documentation you receive; this is because we have partnered with EDF for the provision of a number of support services whilst we complete a successful transition out of the EDF group.
At Sizewell C we encourage and embrace diversity and how it can improve our experience and performance at work. It is a requirement that those who join us have the right to work in the UK. Whilst sponsorship may be a possibility that we can explore, we are fully committed to local recruitment where possible, and those already holding the right to work in the UK.
To be appointed to this role, you will need to meet the criteria for Security Vetting, which will, ordinarily, require you to have been a resident of the UK for at least three of the past five years.
By submitting an application to this role, you acknowledge that you have read and understood Sizewell C’s employee privacy policy and EDF's employee privacy policy. Just to let you know, EDF will be processing and sharing information about your application on behalf of Sizewell C.
At Sizewell C we encourage and embrace diversity and how it can improve our experience and performance at work. It is a requirement that those who join us have the right to work in the UK. Whilst sponsorship may be a possibility that we can explore, we are fully committed to local recruitment where possible, and those already holding the right to work in the UK.
To be appointed to this role, you will need to meet the criteria for Security Vetting, which will, ordinarily, require you to have been a resident of the UK for at least three of the past five years.
By submitting an application to this role, you acknowledge that you have read and understood Sizewell C’s employee privacy policy and EDF's employee privacy policy. Just to let you know, EDF will be processing and sharing information about your application on behalf of Sizewell C.