Closing Date of Applications – 25/03/2024

Our Story

Established in 2013, City Football Group is the world’s leading private owner and operator of football clubs, with total or partial ownership of thirteen clubs across the world. City Football Group also invests in other football related businesses and serves as a global commercial platform for our partners, whilst fulfilling our purpose of empowering better lives through football on a local and global scale, consistent with what “City” football has meant to people for over a century.

Our Winning Team

Our purpose is to empower better lives through football. We are proud of the role City Football Group clubs play in their localities, delivering positive economic, social and environmental impact through our operations and through programmes and activities that bring about meaningful, lasting change.

The Payroll & Reward function sits within the People team here at City Football Group. This is an exciting opportunity, playing a key role within the department, ensuring reward and benefit processes and outcomes for employees are accurate and efficient; reviewing and setting strategic principles across the group as well as much more- please see the ‘your impact’ section below.

This is Your City

As part of our team, you will be entitled to 26 days annual leave plus an additional day off for your birthday, private healthcare and simply health cash plan, an annual discretionary bonus, plus a range of partnership and lifestyle discounts.

Your Impact

1. Manage, deliver, provide technical expertise and work closely with key stakeholders for cyclical reward projects:
   • Annual salary review
   • Bonus scheme outturn
   • Gender Pay Gap reporting
   • Exceptional salary increase process
   • Be part of the budgeting process for annual salary review and bonuses, working closely with Finance.

1. Manage the Living wage process internally to review rates of pay across the group, working with a range of internal stakeholders and also liaising with the Living Wage Foundation as required.

1. Manage the provision of benefits across the group, including managing the relationships with third party benefit providers, liaising with the People Services team on benefits administration, and managing the benefits communications and intranet. Review existing benefits provision, put forward proposals for changes, as required, and manage any such benefits projects, e.g. change of provider, new benefit provision, etc.

1. Manage incentives across the group, including bonus and commission plans, and input into any incentive plan review or redesign projects.

1. Support the monthly payroll review process.

1. Manage the pay benchmarking process, coordinate participation in benchmarking surveys, and prepare all necessary reporting. Input to the group’s pay range process and evolution.

1. Manage and support the Director of Reward on other Reward related projects as required.

1. Develop strong relationships with key stakeholders across the business to ensure alignment and a collaborative approach to Reward.
   

What we are looking for

Essential

• Ability to adapt to change.
• Ability to establish and maintain strong working relationships.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Understands the internal and external environment.
• Take personal ownership.
• Demonstrate excellent attention to detail.
• Effective planning and organisation skills with the ability to prioritise when under pressure
• Experience in managing reward projects (for example salary reviews and bonus plan management and design)
• Advanced Excel/spreadsheet data modelling and manipulation skills.
• Strong analytical skills.

Desirable

• Project management exposure.
• Experience of job evaluation methodologies.
• Experience of benefits and contract management.
• Working in a global business and delivering reward projects over a number of countries.
• Experience of Comp and Bens systems.
• Good working knowledge of the tax implications and legal compliance requirements of reward

City Football Group promotes equal opportunities in employment and we positively welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

We will screen all applicants and select candidates whose skills and experience seem to meet our needs. We will carefully consider your application during the initial screening and will contact you only if you are selected for an interview.

Employment is subject to the provision of proof of eligibility to work in the UK.

Due to our safeguarding promise, all UK based CFG roles will be subject to a DBS check upon commencing employment with us. This will be either a basic, standard or enhanced check depending on the job role and responsibilities.