Join our team as an Executive Compensation Associate and work alongside some of the industry's leading consultants on high-impact client projects. From day one, you'll gain hands-on experience with real assignments that challenge your analytical thinking, business insight, and problem-solving skills. You'll play a key role in collecting and interpreting data, presenting findings, and shaping strategies for top-tier clients. Along the way, you'll build deep technical expertise through structured learning tailored to your role-all while developing a strong foundation in executive compensation and the broader industry landscape. Curious to learn more about Work & Rewards at WTW? Discover how our unique blend of advisory expertise, data-driven insights and digital capabilities helps organisations attract, reward and engage their people. The Role Excellence - Develop technical knowledge and skills in the area of Executive Compensation - Deliver on projects to meet or exceed internal or client expectations - Contribute to sales and marketing efforts by supplying information for proposals - Apply financial rigour through accurate time recording and invoicing Clients - Partner with consultants and clients to design strategies to attract, reward and retain talent - Help our clients ensure that their executive reward programs are competitive by performing competitive benchmarking analyses - Perform industry and financial research related to compensation strategy and design - Develop pay structures and incentive designs that help support companies' business strategies - Value equity awards through the application of financial formulas - Participate in the design and conduct of custom compensation surveys - Assist clients in their review and preparation of public disclosures, regulatory filings and plan documentation - Identify competitive best practices and emerging trends in executive compensation; monitor evolving regulatory, legislative and shareholder developments and report issues that may impact the client's approach to compensation strategy and design - Increase efficiency within client teams by identifying ways to improve processes People - Build relationships internally and collaborate effectively on cross-functional teams - Team player; Ability to work independently as well as in a team
What you'll bring:
- Experience as a compensation Associate, a genuine interest in this field as well as the ability to do the following:
- Conduct custom compensation surveys
- Perform industry and financial research related to compensation strategy and design
- Perform analyses of competitive compensation levels
- Develop pay structures and analyzing the mix between fixed and variable pay
- Learn incentive plan design
- Value stock option grants
- Advanced MS Excel skills required
- A problem solver; able to identify and solve challenging problems
- Analytical; able to draw conclusions from data in a logical, systematic way
- Conceptual; ability to go beyond the detailsn and see the big picture
- Results-driven; focused on achieving results that promote business success
- Communicator; displays strong oral, written and public speaking skills
- Organized; able to work and think in a methodical and orderly way
- Committed to quality; continuously works to achieve the highest quality standards
- Ability to carry out assignments with minimal supervision
- Ability to manage own workload efficiently to full fill commitments.
- Bachelors or Masters degree in economics, finance, mathematics, statistics or any other major with significant quantitative course work, and a strong academic record
