Performance & Reward Expert

Your role & work environment

ING Luxembourg is seeking a dynamic individual to reinforce its Performance & Rewards team. The Performance and Reward Expert will be a key contributor in managing local Performance and Rewards activities. This role offers a unique opportunity to delve into diverse areas such as Compensation & Benefits, Performance Management, Regulatory Compensation, and job architecture. In this position, you will have the possibility to have a real impact and help the organization attract and retain top talent.

As part of the HR team in the Performance and Rewards Centre of Expertise, you will report directly to the Head of Performance and Rewards Luxembourg. You'll collaborate closely with HR Business Partners, People Services, and Talent & Learning colleagues to drive excellence in HR practices.

Your key responsibilities

• Performance and Rewards Initiatives: you play an important role in Luxembourg's Performance and Rewards activities, including the preparation and execution of the annual compensation cycle, monitoring of market practices, budgeting, performance management, and maintaining job architecture. You also support local communication efforts around Performance & Rewards matters.
• HR system and data accuracy: you ensure the accuracy of compensation data in our HR system (Workday) as well as you work closely with our HR colleagues to make sure they have the information they need to perform their work. You gather and prepare compensation data for benchmarks and for internal and external regulatory reports.
• Ensure compliance: you play a pivotal role in ensuring that Performance & Rewards documentation and processes adhere to both internal and external policies and requirements. You will also support internal and external audit requests and gather relevant data and documentation. You contribute to regular activities such as identifying regulated staff.
• Management of inquiries: you address standard Performance and Rewards questions from our internal customers and HR colleagues, ensuring complex requests are efficiently routed to the appropriate stakeholders.

We look for

A colleague with a talent for taking it on and making ithappen, enthusiasm for helping others to be successful and a knack for always being a step ahead. In other words, you strive to bring fresh ideas to life and embrace challenges in a fast changing and complex environment. You are a naturally collaborative person who listens and invests in others to achieve common goals. You love to challenge the status quo and are eager to propose creative solutions to problems.

As a Performance and Reward Expert you will also need:

• A minimum of 3 years of professional experience. Experience within the Financial sector and in the field of Rewards is considered as an advantage.
• Our biggest expectation is that you’ll stay curious. Keep learning. Take on responsibility.
• We value curiosity and practical application over excessive niche expertise. Since we work as a Team and value polyvalence, we also expect you to support your HR colleagues on other topics as needed.
• Ability to understand complex regulatory landscape how this translates into practice.
• An analytical mindset, data-driven approach and able to “roll up sleeves” are crucial.
• Team player and ability to partner with multiple stakeholders, including outside HR.
• An ability to work autonomously, identify and escalate bottlenecks as needed.
• Excel proficiency is a must.
• Knowledge of an HR information System (e.g. Workday) is considered as an advantage.
• You are fluent, both written and orally, in English. Any additional language would be an asset.

We offer you

• Work in an informal, dynamic environment: ING is a stimulating international working environment with many learning opportunities and a strong connection with our Group.
• Personal growth & challenging work with opportunities to realise your ambitions: by joining a convivial and diverse HR team composed of colleagues with varied backgrounds and deep expertise in their respective fields, you will have a unique opportunity to develop your own skills and expertise in Performance and Rewards, as well as in other areas. We will accompany you in developing your knowledge and acquiring skills that will make you successful in the role.

We redefine banking. What about you?

There has never been a more interesting time to work at ING. We’re on a journey that’s centred around our customers, powered by technology and driven by smart, determined people. Our customers feel our people are empowering them to stay a step ahead in life and in business. We’re proud of that!