Analytics Executive Reward Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

Job Description & Summary

A career in our Reward practice, within People and Organisation services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients reset their talent strategies and deliver extraordinary business results through their people. We focus on evaluating and managing their unique challenges so our clients can maximise their return on the overall investment in human capital. You’ll gain a tremendous depth of expertise in all aspects of human capital, including creating sustainable value through people culture and change, designing compensation and retirement strategies, and improving human capital operations.

Our team helps organisations set their compensation strategies through analysis of industry benchmarks, company policies and culture, and employee performance. As part of our team, you’ll help our clients determine their compensation structure, executive pay packages, legal and regulatory requirements, tax implications, and financial reporting and accounting advice.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

As a Senior Associate, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Use feedback and reflection to develop self awareness, personal strengths and address development areas.
• Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.
• Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry or sector trends.
• Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance.
• Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.
• Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives.
• Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.
• Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

The role will entail providing analytical and financial modelling support for the following functions:

• Corporate finance enterprise value and equity valuation models;
• Long-term and Short-term incentive cost modelling;
• Executive remuneration benchmarking statistical analysis;
• Consulting on projects across the full spectrum of reward. This includes reward strategy and structuring, short-term and long-term incentive (e.g. share plan) design (incl  tax and legal/regulatory considerations) and financial modelling e.g. remuneration benchmarking, Calculation of appropriate award levels and modelling the cost of proposed remuneration structures. The executive remuneration of large listed companies is a major focus and provides for interesting assignments directly related to South African (and broader African) business leaders

EXPERIENCE

KEY KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

• Qualified CA(SA) or
• Bsc Applied Mathematics graduate with 3 years + working experience.
• CFA level 1 will be an added benefit.

• Completion of 3 years SAICA articles or 3 years + work experience

• Excellent writing skills
• Numerical and Excel ability
• Proactive and self-driven
• Client service and results oriented
• Good administration skills with attention to detail
• Ability to deal with multiple demands under tight client deadlines
• Comfortable building relationships and communicating with people at all level
• Ability to work as part of the team as well as independently
• Takes responsibility for personal development