ANZ Rewards Lead

The ANZ Rewards Lead is the organisation’s senior expert responsible for supporting with delivering the reward strategy. This role provides deep subject matter expertise in remuneration, benefits, recognition, and reward governance, ensuring competitiveness, compliance, and alignment with business objectives. 

Operating as a strategic advisor to executives, senior HR leaders, the role leads complex reward initiatives, compensation frameworks, job architecture, policy design, and annual remuneration cycles across Australia and New Zealand.

How you’ll make a difference

Strategic Reward Leadership 

• Support with delivering the organisation’s total reward strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals and market trends. 
• Serve as the principal adviser to key stakeholders on remuneration frameworks, pay equity, and strategic reward decisions. 
• Drive innovation in remuneration, benefits, recognition, and wellbeing programs. 

Remuneration Governance & Compliance 

• Lead remuneration governance, including policy frameworks, delegations, and audit processes. 
• Ensure compliance with relevant Australian and New Zealand legislation (e.g., Fair Work Act, Modern Awards, NES, Superannuation Guarantee, KiwiSaver). 
• Undertake Gender pay reporting and analysis for Australia and New Zealand 
• Provide oversight on job evaluation, position descriptions, and organisational job architecture. 

Compensation Programs & Cycles 

• Lead annual remuneration review cycles, including salary benchmarking, market analysis, and remuneration modelling. 
• Manage remuneration data integrity and analytics, including reward dashboards for data insights. 

Benefits & Recognition Programs 

• Evaluate, enhance, and manage benefits offerings, such as salary packaging, wellbeing initiatives, leave programs, and employee recognition frameworks. 
• Lead vendor management and negotiations related to benefits providers. 

Stakeholder Engagement 

• Provide expert guidance on remuneration matters including offers, retention strategies, and market movements.  
• Present business cases and recommendations to key stakeholders, leveraging data-driven insights and aligning proposals with business priorities.  
• Influence stakeholder decisions by building relationships to advise on remuneration strategies and addressing concerns.  

The following qualifications and experience are highly desired, but if you don’t tick all the boxes you could still be a perfect fit for this role. Please apply, all applications will be considered.

• 7+ years relevant experience
• Advanced analytical skills with the ability to manage, consolidate, and validate complex data. 
• Expertise in Australian and New Zealand legislation, reward governance and compliance.  
• Experience supporting compensation, rewards, financial modelling, or other cyclical People programs. 
• Familiarity with job architecture frameworks (e.g. Mercer, AON, and Strategic pay) 
• Staying informed on emerging trends to adapt strategies and maintain a competitive edge.  
• Experience using AI in more advanced applications, such as data modelling, forecasting, or within HR, Compensation, or Finance processes. 

AECOM acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands on which we, our clients and our communities live and work around Australia. We pay our respects to their cultures and to their Elders — past, present, and emerging. We are committed to connecting to Country in our work through meaningful engagement with First Nations peoples and businesses.  Find out more about our Australian Reconciliation Action Plan here: https://aecom.com/au/our-vision-for-reconciliation/.

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.