Quality consultancy support

EBRS was set up in 2009 and is led by Karl Ellis, a reward specialist and a Chartered Member of the CIPD, who has more than 15 years of broad HR experience. We provide a quality, flexible service that meets your needs, but without the high overheads and premium fee rates of larger consultancies.  Before launching EBRS, Karl led the pay and reward team in the HR consulting arm of Smith & Williamson, a financial services company.  He has extensive reward experience across the public and private sectors, providing practical advice and helping clients to establish and maintain effective reward strategies.  Prior to this, Karl worked for Lloyds TSB, first as an HR Business Partner specialising in policies and projects, then coordinating C&G's annual salary review and flexible benefits processes.

Passionate about reward

You can be assured of quality advice and support when you work with EBRS. As well as working directly with a range of clients in different sectors, we also provide services to independent HR consultancies that don't have their own reward expertise.

Karl is passionate about helping organisations succeed with reward. He regularly speaks at seminars, offering practical advice on aspects of reward practice. He has also worked closely with employer groups and has spoken at housing organisation events run by the RSL Network and Community Housing Cymru. 

Over recent years, Karl has worked closely with a range of registered providers in the housing sector, helping them with job evaluation, pay benchmarking and reward strategy.  His experience in the sector has led to him devising surveys that examine subjects such as executive reward, pay rise plans and HR effectiveness.

Access to the expertise of others as needed

As well as handling and interpreting large volumes of pay and survey data, the EBRS team is accustomed to dealing with a broad range of HR matters. If a project needs specific HR or financial services expertise that we can't help with, then we can call on the support of our network of experts to provide the answer.

Dealing with your data accurately and carefully

Numbers, data, spreadsheets... three words that strike fear into many HR people!  Even if you aren't afraid of pay models, the chances are that you struggle to find the time you'd like to spend on getting them right.

At EBRS, we actually enjoy working with numbers, but we don't lose sight of the fact that the data we handle represents real people, their jobs and their livelihoods.  Rest assured that we will deal with your data accurately and sensitively, taking account of the impact that any proposals would have on your employees.

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