Analyst, Executive Compensation & Board Advisory (HR consulting)

This is a rare opportunity to gain client-facing experience early in your career while learning from some of the best minds in corporate governance and executive pay design.

We’re looking for an ambitious and bold individual to join our fast-growing Hong Kong team. This is a high-impact role for someone who enjoys exploring business challenges, building relationships, asking good questions, helping senior business leaders solve real problems, and contributing to the team’s growth exponentially.

To succeed, you’ll need the confidence to speak directly with clients as well as senior consultants internally, challenge ideas constructively, and bring fresh thinking to the table.

You don’t need to come from a specific academic background. However, what matters most is your curiosity about how businesses operate across various industries in Hong Kong, your comfort in speaking with people, and your motivation to learn, grow, and contribute quickly.

From day one, you’ll speak with clients to understand their needs, introduce our AI and data-led products, and support them in making better decisions. You’ll also receive training in corporate governance, product innovation, and marketing and sales strategy from a team of experienced consultants.

The Role

• Speak directly with clients to understand their priorities and recommend the right product and/or advisory solutions.
• Support consultants on key client projects, including executive pay reviews, incentive design, and governance assessments.
• Help develop insights and materials for client meetings.
• Manage our executive compensation database and collaborate with our digital team to identify opportunities to improve our products and processes.
• Proactively lead outreach campaigns to generate interest in our data products, and advisory services.

The Requirements

• Fluent in Cantonese and English: it is essential for engaging effectively with local clients in Hong Kong
• Outgoing and sociable: enjoy conversations, love to build friendships, and are confident presenting ideas and engaging with senior leaders
• Commercially curious: interested in how companies are run, grow, and transform, and how we help companies along the way
• Open to learn new things: eager to climb the learning curve quickly, embrace feedback, and willing to explore different approaches to get things done
• Detail-oriented and able to manage multiple tasks under tight timelines
• Good Excel hygiene and disciplined formatting practices in Word and PowerPoint
• Strong oral and written communication skills

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in any discipline: we welcome applicants from science, engineering, business, humanities, or other fields.
• Prior experience in client-facing, sales, research, or project-based roles (e.g. internships) is a plus.
• Strong written communication skills.

What can we offer you?

In return you will be rewarded with a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package including: a fantastic pension scheme, life insurance, medical insurance and flexible benefits including dental cover, additional life assurance, and many other options and Corporate deals. We also adopt a hybrid working arrangement, whereby a combination of work-from-home and in office is adopted.

WTW is an equal opportunity employer.