Senior Remuneration Consultant in Perth

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The Senior Remuneration Consultant provides specialist remuneration and total reward advice to support consistent, equitable and commercially sound workforce decisions across Western Power.

The role offers the opportunity to shape and strengthen how we reward our people, combining technical remuneration expertise with practical business insights.

You will manage job evaluation, remuneration reviews, market benchmarking and modelling, while providing trusted, evidence-based advice on complex reward matters.

Working closely with business leaders, People teams, Finance and Employee Relations, you’ll help ensure our remuneration and total reward frameworks and applied effectively, while continually improving and modernising our practices to keep them contemporary, competitive and fit for purpose.

Your Role in Action

• Provide trusted specialist advice on complex remuneration, benefits and total reward matters, balancing market competitiveness, internal equity, affordability, governance and employee experience.
• Manage job evaluation, market benchmarking and remuneration analysis providing clear insights and recommendations to support effective remuneration decisions.
• Manage the annual remuneration review cycle, including planning, modelling, data validation, stakeholder guidance and governance reporting.
• Prepare evidence-based remuneration recommendations, options and decision papers for leaders, executives and relevant governance forums.
• Analyse workforce and market data to identify remuneration trends, risks, inequities and emerging workforce issues, translating insights into practical actions and recommendations.
• Provide remuneration modelling and specialist advice to support Enterprise Agreement negotiations, industrial relations matters, organisational change and workforce planning.
• Partner across People , Finance, Talent Acquisition, Employee Relations and business to develop integrated and commercially sound workforce solutions.
• Strengthen and continuously improve remuneration and total reward practices, promoting the consistent and equitable application of frameworks, job evaluation methodology, policies, controls and delegated authorities.
• What Makes You a Great Fit
• Extensive remuneration and total reward experience gained in a corporate, consulting or similarly complex environment with demonstrated expertise across job evaluation, market benchmarking, remuneration review cycles and complex remuneration analysis.
• Strong analytical and numerical capability, including advanced Microsoft Excel skills and the ability to interpret and complex workforce and market data and translate it into meaningful insights and recommendations.
• Demonstrated experience developing remuneration models, options and recommendations to support senior stakeholder and executive decision-making.
• Sound understanding of remuneration governance, pay equity, industrial instruments and relevant employment obligations, with the ability to apply these considerations to complex remuneration matters.
• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities and deliver complex remuneration activities accurately and within required timeframes.
• Strong written communication skills, including the preparation of executive-quality reports, papers and recommendations.
• Tertiary qualification in human resources, business, commerce, finance or a related discipline.

By joining Western Power, you will contribute to powering a cleaner energy future.

We are dedicated to fostering career development and promoting a healthy work-life balance, empowering you to drive innovation as we develop a network that will serve the Western Australian community for generations.

• You will also benefit from a range of perks and opportunities, including:
• Over 50% of our employment opportunities are driven by career progression.
• Flexible work arrangements to support part time work, working hours and working from home arrangements.
• The opportunity to purchase up to four weeks of additional leave per year.
• Access to salary packaging, social club activities, and discounted health insurance and gym membership.
• An award-winning employee recognition and benefits programme.
• An innovative team culture that’s enabling the transition to renewable energy and decarbonisation.
• In addition to standard leave, enjoy three wellness leave days each year.
• Access to end-of-trip facilities at our Perth office and South Metro Depot, perfect for cyclists.
• On-site café available for convenient meals and refreshments throughout the day.
• 22 weeks paid parental leave and 5 days of First Nations cultural leave to support family and cultural connections.

Applications close on 5 November 2026.

We value diversity and inclusivity, encouraging applications from all backgrounds, including women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and LGBTQIA+ communities.

As a WORK180 -endorsed employer for women, we are proud of our commitment to inclusion.

You can learn more about this through our Reconciliation Action Plan and Disability Access and Inclusion Plan.

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