Early Careers: Compensation Analyst Intern - Montréal, QC, Canada - Willis Towers Watson

Description

Create your future. At WTW, we help clients align their talent and rewards strategy with their business strategy to achieve long-term success. We rely on data, analytics and experience to pinpoint the talent and workforce needs that are vital to their overall performance. We develop strategies and design and implement programs that address these needs, drive higher performance and ensure the right return on their investment in people. Backed by industry-leading technology, global workforce data, research and insights, we help our clients quickly transform ideas into action.

Our Compensation teams are the global leaders in effectively aligning executive, broad-based and sales employee pay and other rewards with the interests of our clients' stakeholders. Our team consults to a broad array of clients on matters related to compensation benchmarking and plan design/calibration, corporate governance, legislative and regulatory trends, performance analysis and risk management, among others.

Love your work. As an Intern, you will work side-by-side with some of the industry's top consultants while you develop cutting edge technical knowledge and skills and gain experience working with a variety of clients across industries. You will have immediate exposure to real client assignments which will draw on your imagination and creativity as well as your ability to analyze data, draw conclusions and present results. These experiences will help build your technical knowledge and overall industry expertise while you benefit from more structured learning interventions that are tailored to our business.

Our projects range in scope from specific solutions (e.g., base pay program design, job evaluation, incentive design, pay level benchmarking, goal-setting methodology development, performance management program design, custom surveys) to broad cross-LOB engagements such as total rewards strategy and total rewards optimization.

• Partnering with consultants and clients to design philosophies and strategies to attract, reward and retain talent
• Helping our clients ensure that their reward programs are competitive by performing competitive benchmarking analyses
• Performing industry, company and financial research
• Keeping abreast of legal, regulatory and legislative trends that relate to corporate governance and compensation
• Modeling pay structures and conducting financial impact analyses of alternative designs
• Developing, analyzing and calibrating executive and broad-based incentive plan designs that help support companies' business strategies
• Drafting documents presenting the team's analytical work to client audiences
• Valuing equity awards through the application of financial formulas
• Increasing efficiency within client teams by identifying ways to improve processes

About you.

• Progress towards a Bachelor'sDegree in business, economics, finance, mathematics or any other major with significant quantitative course work, and minimum GPA of 3.0
• Work experience that demonstrates strong technical and/or client service skills (analyst type of internship preferred)
• Passion for solving problems and sharing solutions to exceed the standards of the client
• Strong financial literacy is highly preferred
• Ability to be a self-starter and work independently, but also cooperatively in a close team environment
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and a demonstrated ability to interact with colleagues at all levels
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills, particularly in Excel
• Accepting applications from candidates that graduate with a Bachelor's or Master's degree between December 2024 through June 2026

WTW Work Flex: At WTW, we see things differently. We understand flexibility is key to supporting an inclusive and diverse workforce and so we have a variety of different working arrangements which we call "WTW Work Flex". We encourage colleagues and candidates to make requests for the types of flexible working arrangements that suit them. Visit our career site for more information:

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