Work, Reward & Career Consulting Graduate Programme

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Corporate Risk & Broking Actuarial Graduate Analyst

The Business 

The greatest asset of most organisations is their people. In an era of rapidly developing technology, greater workforce mobility and increasing customer demands, having a cohesive human capital strategy is crucial for business success.  

In our Work, Reward & Career business, we help clients deliver strong business results by ensuring that they have the right people in the right places, doing the right things, at the right cost. Through a combination of advice, data, and software, we deliver solutions that help organisations improve their business performance through their people.  

We know that high-performing businesses cultivate and grow talent, carefully balancing costs, and rewards. From job architecture to performance management, we take a rounded perspective, based on leading-edge thinking, data, analytics, and software, unearthing new ways to attract, engage and retain talent.  

Our human capital clients are varied – we advise organisations across all industries, from financial services to retail, telecommunications, and energy. In the UK, we advise many of the world’s leading and largest companies and often interact with our offices around the world to provide a truly global service offering. We provide invaluable advice to companies at some of the most exciting and critical moments in their lifecycle, at times when employee engagement and retention is crucial – from mergers and acquisitions to listing on the stock market.  

Graduates on our Work, Reward & Career (WRC) Consulting Graduate Programme have the opportunity to work alongside our Work, Reward & Career consultants who provide strategy, design and delivery support to help our clients organise and reward their people appropriately and fairly, enabling organisations to attract, retain, motivate, and engage employees efficiently and cost-effectively. 

If you are interested in this position, you may also want to consider the Executive Compensation and Board Advisory Consulting Graduate Programme or the Global Financial Services Consulting Graduate Programme.

• Our Executive Compensation and Board Advisory colleagues focus on working with boards of directors, compensation committees and management to get all elements of executive level pay right. 

The Role 

As a WRC graduate, you will work as part of a team on a wide variety of complex projects, serving as a key resource for the consultant in charge of each of your engagements. You will be encouraged to develop as broad an understanding of our client solutions as possible by supporting across multiple, complex projects. You will have immediate exposure to real client assignments, which will draw on your imagination and creativity, as well as your ability to analyse data, draw conclusions and present results. These experiences will help build your technical knowledge and overall industry experience while you benefit from more structured learning interventions.  

As you grow and gain more expertise, you will become a key contact for the client and gradually begin to take responsibility for deliverables and client relationships across a range of sectors and geographies. You will work alongside some of the industry’s top consultants on cross-industry client projects, including many household names: FTSE 100 and 250 clients, privately held companies and public service organisations.  

Typical work for WRC Analyst might include: 

• Job levelling (utilising our propriety methodology), an analytical process that determines the relative value of roles in an organisation, providing the absolute foundations for reward and career path opportunities  
• Creating appropriate and effective performance management tools  
• Designing, modelling, and implementing high-impact sales incentive programmes, clarifying sales processes, roles, and sales organisational design  
• Providing clients with market benchmarking on a number of pay elements including base pay, benefits, short and long-term incentive plans and total reward, using a variety of sources such as survey data and published reports 
• Working with companies to understand and qualify their compensation strategy using data analytics, research, and trends 
• Conducting reviews of pay programmes to ensure they are competitive and support drivers of attraction, retention, and engagement 
• Developing pay philosophy, salary structure design, pay ranges and pay-for-performance analysis 
• Designing and drafting accountabilities across client roles and grades 
• Reviewing an organisation’s approach to managing knowledge and skills  
• Helping organisations to develop core, leadership and functional competencies and link into their HR practices   
• Designing and implementing career architecture, developing job families and disciplines 
• Analysing pay gaps (for example, by gender or ethnicity) and providing insights to help clients address areas of concern

You are required to have good problem-solving and analytical skills, as well as excellent communication skills, as you will be interacting with clients from the beginning. 

Qualifications

Qualifications and Training  

We have a focused 12-month training programme for graduates, which is called FAST START. FAST START is designed to give you an insight into our business, and help you develop the consulting, practical and technical skills you need to succeed at WTW.  

We continue to invest in our people, and you will have regular opportunities for training throughout your career with us – both on the job and through more formal classroom sessions. Consultants are not required to have a particular qualification; therefore, the wide variety of external qualifications we do support are determined by the needs of the business and the individual’s interests.  

The Requirements 

• Minimum 2:1 degree in any discipline 

About WTW

At WTW, our purpose is to transform tomorrows. We provide data-driven, insight-led solutions in the areas of people, risk and capital to propel the world’s leading businesses forward.

When you join an early careers program at WTW, you’re empowered to develop your skills and make a difference by applying your unique perspective. We fuse our passion, intelligence and imagination to make real impact – confident that behind everyone one of us is all of us.

Difference makers

Begin your career with WTW where every step is an opportunity. Join a company with global scale and diverse perspective where you can deepen our collective insight, set the bar high and succeed your way. Whichever early careers program you join, you’ll go into a role with real responsibilities, exposure to client assignments and the opportunity to build up valuable experience. With WTW behind you, you’ll learn and develop the skills to succeed in your chosen role.

Where you means all of us

We’re proud of our culture and commited to making a real impact for our clients and colleagues. That’s why we constantly challenge ourselves to grow our inclusive culture and create a place where we’re bolder together. Our inclusion networks help us to live our values and our defined inclusion and diversity commitments improve and measure our progress. For you, this means joining a company where you can bring your whole self to work.

Your future in sharp focus

We leverage the global view and local expertise of our 44,000 colleagues serving 140 countries and markets to transform tomorrows. At WTW, you’ll tackle challenges with the help of a diverse, expert global team and identify strategic solutions that move us – and the world’s most powerful organizations – forward.

WTW is proud to be a disability confident employer. We work with MyPlus who support the 15% of disabled students and graduates applying for jobs, internships and placements.

How to Apply

• Online application, including CV. 
• Invitation to complete online assessment and a video interview.
• Virtual assessment centre – this is an opportunity for you to meet with members of the team and for the team to understand your strengths, preferences, and motivations. The assessment will take place virtually, and there will be an opportunity for you to ask questions. 
• Offer and acceptance. 
• Keeping in touch including office visit and invites to social events where you will be able to meet some of your future colleagues. 
• On-boarding. 

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