Reward Consultant/Senior Reward Consultant – Dispute Resolution - Johannesburg at Bowmans (Law Firm)

Purpose:

Working with senior leaders of large JSE listed companies in providing advice on executive remuneration matters, including remuneration benchmarking, remuneration governance (advising the remuneration committee), designing incentive plans and share schemes, pay fairness, employee benefits and financial modelling for integrated reporting and various remuneration related analysis.

Experience and Qualifications:

• A bachelor’s degree is essential, preferably specializing in a quantitative science, such as mathematics or statistics, or a BCom, or Business Science/Economics degree. A post graduate qualification such as an Honours or Masters, or a professional qualification such as a CA, CFA, CMA or an Actuary is a differentiator.
• Global Remuneration Professional (GRP) Certification is advantageous.
• 1 – 2 years’ experience (Consultant) and 3-5 years for the Senior Reward Consultant, in quantitative analytics, including financial modelling, and/or compensation and reward.

Key Accountabilities and Activities:

Marketing and Thought Leadership

• Conduct research on matters of interest to clients, as directed by the practice leaders, and assist in writing articles and material of interest to clients for business development, marketing and use in client deliverables.

Matter Administration

• Assist with matter administration including drafting proposals, engagement letters, conflict searches and assisting the practice administrator to open new matter codes. Assist in following up on WIP, invoicing and payments by clients.

Financial Modelling and Analytics

• Support the delivery of engagements by building financial models to support the design of short term and long-term incentive structures. To support remuneration and benefits offerings (such as private equity structures and retirement savings instruments), benchmarking of executives, management and employee remuneration using public data and survey reports.

Research and Surveys

• Conduct research and surveys on executive and non-executive director remuneration practices.