Compensation & Benefits Manager - London (Fintech)

Location: London, United Kingdom; hybrid. Candidates must have the right to work in the jurisdiction where they will work.

Company

hirify.global is a growing B2B financial services provider delivering global payments, foreign exchange, treasury management, and finance reconciliation services across EMEA, APAC, and North America.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain salary structures, job levels, pay bands, and market benchmarking practices.
• Lead annual salary reviews, bonus and equity cycles, including modelling, budgeting, communications, and award governance.
• Partner with the CFO, Head of FP&A, Finance, People, Talent, Payroll, and HRIS teams on reward strategy, forecasting, budgets, and accurate processes.
• Manage the benefits portfolio, providers, renewals, tenders, communications, utilisation, and employee satisfaction.
• Build reporting and dashboards covering compensation costs, pay competitiveness, benefits utilisation, pay equity, and required gender and ethnicity pay gap reporting.
• Support remuneration governance, audit readiness, M&A, international expansion, organisational design, business cases, ROI analysis, and board or investor materials.

Requirements

• 5–7 years of experience in compensation and benefits, reward, or a related HR analytics role.
• Strong analytical and financial modelling skills with advanced Excel or Google Sheets.
• Hands-on experience with salary benchmarking tools and surveys, such as Radford, Mercer, Korn Ferry, or Willis Towers Watson.
• Solid knowledge of employment, tax, and benefits regulations in relevant jurisdictions.
• Experience running an annual pay review cycle end to end.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to explain complex topics simply to employees and executives.
• High attention to detail and strong judgment when handling confidential data.
• Commercial, data-driven, collaborative, consultative, fair, ethical, and discreet approach; confidence influencing senior finance and executive stakeholders; comfort with ambiguity and changing priorities.

Nice to have

• Experience in fintech, technology, or a high-growth environment.
• Experience with multi-country reward and equity plans.
• Familiarity with HRIS and compensation platforms such as BambooHR and Pave.
• Experience with pay transparency and pay equity regulations.

Culture & Benefits

• Agile and flexible working culture in a growing global startup with bases across multiple countries.
• Benefits portfolio includes pension or retirement plans, health and life insurance, wellbeing, leave, and flexible benefits.
• Inclusive equal-opportunities workplace with accommodations available during the recruitment process.