Director, Executive Compensation and Board Advisory Consulting

The Role

As Director in the Executive Compensation & Board Advisory Practice in the HK, you will be responsible for developing new business, leading and delivering client engagements, serving as strategic advisor to clients in your areas of subject matter expertise, developing unique and insightful intellectual capital, ensuring the quality of our advice and counsel in the HK and potentially beyond, and developing and mentoring consultants across the region.

Clients

· Develop and maintain selected key accounts and trusted client relationships at a senior level in a way that results in building long term client relationships across multiple practices

· Actively manage multiple and complex engagements ensuring that projects are completed on a timely and profitable basis while ensuring high client satisfaction

· Serve as the senior ECBA leader on complex, multi-discipline projects

· Think strategically in partnering with clients to pioneer unique approaches to solving their business problems

· Provide high quality consulting advice, accurate technical content and engaging deliverables to Boards and senior leaders in client companies

· Use highly effective written and spoken communications to deliver detailed findings, analyses and recommendations to Boards and senior leaders of client organizations

Financial

· Build relationships with internal and external stakeholders to maximize the penetration of key target accounts

· Identify opportunities to deepen and broaden relationships with clients beyond ECBA

· Support effective collaboration and provide leadership and input to preferred resourcing approach to make most efficient use of resources across the geography

· Coordinate with existing sales and Client Relationship Management teams to identify, develop and close strategic sales opportunities

Excellence

· Be a positive role model of WTW values and contribute to building an employer of choice culture of top performing associates committed to client satisfaction, teamwork and excellence in all that is done

· Provide insight, judgement and intellectual capital to the executive compensation business and local office teams

People

· Lead ECBA engagements including developing project plans for execution of large, global engagements leveraging cross-functional teams that work together effectively

· Demonstrate leadership ability by effectively mentoring other consultants

· Build relationships internally and collaborate effectively on cross-cultural and cross-functional teams spanning multiple geographies

· Ensure project managers are maintaining team progress against established budget, timeline and quality standards (while you have overall responsibility, consultant level staff typically serve as day to day project managers)

The Requirements

· Significant experience consulting at the Board level

· In-depth knowledge of tax, corporate finance, regulatory, corporate governance and accounting issues and requirements in order to design executive compensation plans including annual, equity, stock and other long- and short-term incentive plans

· Hands-on experience crafting compensation solutions in special situations such as IPO’s, LBO’s, M&A’s, divestitures, spin-offs, recapitalizations and venture/entrepreneurial start-ups

· Executive presence, including polished and well-developed written and oral communication skills and ability to influence senior management while working effectively across all levels of an organization

· Collaborative business style to introduce new programs and value-added services both internally and to client organizations

· Outstanding analytical skills and understanding of human resource and financial issues within major global organizations and in entrepreneurial environments

· Proven experience with and passion for business development within the Financial Services space

· Collaborative business style, internally and externally

· Experience in coaching, managing and developing others

· Excellent client relationship skills, interpersonal skills and entrepreneurial attitude

· Commitment to quality and professionalism; continuously working to achieve the highest quality standards

· An undergraduate degree is required; an advanced degree is highly desirable, particularly an MBA, MA or MSc and professional certifications are highly desirable

· Written and spoken fluency in English is a must

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, flexible benefits 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.