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    Employee Benefits Advice

    Employee rewards to recruit, motivate and retain talent

    Planning your employee benefit package

    Our specialist Workplace team can help you with all things Employee Benefits – covering everything you need as an employer to review, select, launch and embed an employee benefits and wellbeing strategy for your employees. Get access our market-leading flexible benefits technology and a deep suite of options to suit all budgets.

     

    Enhance your business with a better employee benefits strategy

     

    Our employee benefit advice services

    Our services are designed with your workplace in mind. Whether you need to create an employee benefits strategy, educate your employees on their finances, or embed new benefits to compliment your recruitment and retention policies – our employee benefits advice can help.

    Why should you consider offering employees benefits?

    A clear employee benefits strategy demonstrates that you’re invested in your employees and their wellbeing.

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    How Wren can support your employee benefit strategy

    We can work with you directly to enhance your employee benefits proposition and protect your business, as well as helping you improve the wellbeing of your employees by communicating your benefits and services in a way they can understand and value. Our employee benefits advice can:

     

    Save you time and effort

    With so many choices to make, getting an effective employee rewards and staff wellbeing strategy in place can be complicated. Workplace pensions alone have many rules and regulations, and it’s important to get it right, so it pays to work with an expert. Our Workplace consultants are experienced in this area, and engaging with us can save you time, giving you the capacity to fulfil all the other essential aspects of your role.

     

    Give your employees access to financial advice

    Wren Sterling helps thousands of people across the UK to build their financial plan and we can do the same for your employees. We can offer access to our Private Client team to give your employees confidence their finances are on the right track.

     

    Help you understand your people

    The workforce is changing. Your employees have vastly different goals emerging between generations from those planning for imminent retirement to millennials struggling with university debt and scaling the housing ladder.

    Our employee benefit clients

    Decoration
    • Sarah Herd and her team of professionals have been working with our HR department for several years. Their support is highly valuable to us, not only in terms of the expertise and services they provide, but also in terms of their responsiveness, availability and excellent sense of service. Wren Sterling, through this team, greatly facilitates the management of our various benefits and schemes and we are very pleased to be building a long-term relationship with them.

      Carole Csorgei, 
      FIA

    Executing the right employee benefit strategy with Wren Sterling

    Deeply personal and bespoke approach

    We’ll start by learning about your business’ challenges and opportunities and build a solution for you. Other consultancies will have different contacts for difference services, but with us everything you need is handled by your lead consultant.

     

    Whole of market

    We’ll help you find the right solutions for your business. Unlike many others who offer limited advice or products from selected providers, our employee benefits advice process involves searching the whole market to find the right solutions for you, your business and your people.

     

    Understanding their benefits

    We can work with you to enhance your employee benefits proposition and protect your business – and help you improve the wellbeing of your employees by ensuring they understand and value your benefits and services through financial education.

    Why choose Wren Sterling to support your employee benefit plan?

    • 450+

      businesses as clients

    • 80,000+

      employees supported

    • 600+

      workplace schemes advised on

    Our employee benefits experts

    • Paul Mitchell

      Paul Mitchell

      Director, Corporate Solutions
      Paul has worked in the employee benefit industry for over 25 years, 15 of which have been spent advising companies on their employee benefit strategy.…Read more
    • Bramwell Towse

      Bramwell Towse

      Director, Corporate Solutions
      Bramwell has 40 years of financial services experience with the past 37 years in employee benefits. Areas of advice include group pensions (both…Read more
    • Sarah Herd

      Sarah Herd

      Head of Workplace
      Sarah has worked in the financial services industry for over 25 years. She joined Wren Sterling in 2016 having worked as an independent financial…Read more
    • Bryan Stott

      Bryan Stott

      Corporate Consultant
      Bryan has worked in the employee benefit industry for over 20 years and before that he ran his own IFA practice. Bryan has been heavily involved in…Read more
    • Roger Dickenson

      Roger Dickenson

      Corporate Consultant
      Roger has over 25 years’ experience providing advice to SME clients on employee benefits provision. This includes the review and communication of…Read more

    Employee Benefits FAQs:

    • Do businesses have to offer an employee benefit plan?

      Do businesses have to offer an employee benefit plan?

      Workplace pensions, Statutory Sick pay, Holiday pay, Maternity/paternity leave must be provided by law. However, there are other additional benefits which are optional. However, companies wanting to compete for talented individuals should consider whether their competitors are offering.

      Your workplace pension scheme is a central piece in your long-term HR strategy, so it needs to be set up and managed accordingly. It can be a complicated space though, with many rules and regulations, so it pays to work with an expert. We can audit your current workplace pension scheme, assist in scheme selection, and support your Pension Scheme Governance.

    • What are the main types of employee benefits?

      What are the main types of employee benefits?

      We can review and help you enhance your benefits, ensuring your people truly value the rewards you provide – such as your workplace pension, group risk policies, salary exchange, ultimately saving you and your people cash. As your business financial adviser, we can support you with:

    • Is there a limit on how many benefits you can offer employees?

      Is there a limit on how many benefits you can offer employees?

      If you’re an employer and provide expenses or benefits to employees or directors, you might need to tell HMRC and pay tax and National Insurance on them. Find out more at gov.uk.

      Looking to reward your senior executives? When you offer competitive salaries and benefits to your executives it can introduce tax planning issues, if it isn’t managed proactively by an expert financial adviser. Wren Sterling overcomes this by pairing corporate advisers with private client advisers, ensuring you get the maximum benefit from your investment in our relationship. Our holistic personal financial advice that covers everything from their pension arrangements to wealth planning to protection.

      • Executive Pension Planning
      • Cashflow Planning
      • Wealth Management
      • Holistic Financial Planning
      • Relevant Life Policy
      • Executive Remuneration