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Early Careers: Employee Experience Analyst – New York – 2025
Early Careers: Employee Experience Analyst – New York – 2025
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Early Careers: Investment Analyst – Chicago – 2025
Illinois, United States
Employment-based non-immigrant visa sponsorship and/or assistance is not offered for this specific job opportunity.
The Business
The Investment business aims to create sustainable competitive advantage for clients in their investment portfolios. This is delivered to clients by providing expert advice on their investments and decision-making processes, making investment decisions on their behalf through delegated investment services and providing investment tools. Our clients are a diverse range of institutional investors, including corporate pension plans, defined contribution plans, and more. As a trusted partner to over 1,200 clients, we advise on over $2.6 trillion of global assets.
The Role
You will be part of a collaborative team, working alongside some of the industry’s top consultants, researchers, and portfolio managers.
The Investment business offers a range of career paths to suit individual skills and interests. Whether your career path focuses on deep research of global asset classes, managing risk utilizing sophisticated modelling, improving investment outcomes through expert advice, or implementing innovative investment solutions. Our ultimate mission is to create better and more sustainable outcomes for plan beneficiaries.
As an Investment Analyst you will work in one or more of the following teams:
- Manager Research – you will work as part of a research team, using robust research techniques to form a view of investment managers across the world and across asset classes. This research contributes to building investment portfolios that seek to deliver differentiated investment outcomes, both from a return and risk perspective.
- Portfolio Management – you will work as part of our delegated portfolio management team, combining top-down and bottom-up investment manager and asset class research and best in class analytics to direct portfolio investment decisions. You will be working with the team to manage portfolio exposures across both multi-asset portfolios, as well as asset class specific funds (such as equities, alternative credit, real assets and liquid alternatives).
- Client Consulting – you will support client teams that manage client relationships, offering best-in-class investment advice and innovative solutions. Some of the client projects you will complete may include investment strategy, liability hedging, portfolio construction, investment performance calculations, investment manager searches and selection, portfolio and investment manager monitoring and preparation of materials for client meetings.
We support our graduates to develop a broad range of technical and soft skills. This includes training from subject matter experts, working on a variety of projects across functions and teams and the opportunity to network with colleagues across and beyond our Investment team. This breadth of knowledge across the investment spectrum will allow you to identify which topics you find most interesting and explore them further. There are also opportunities to contribute to developing our intellectual capital and other Investment business initiatives.
This is an in-office or hybrid role, with the expectation of being present in the office at least three days each week. Position placement will be in one of the following offices: Pittsburgh, PA; Philadelphia, PA; Chicago, IL; Stamford, CT or New York, NY.
Role Requirements.
- Progress towards a Bachelor’s degree and a minimum GPA of 3.0 shown on resume (no major/minor specification)
- Proactive team player
- Clear communicator verbally and in writing
- Project management skills, with attention to detail and the ability to meet deadlines
- A desire to learn with a general interest in financial markets
- Problem solving skills, demonstrating intellectual curiosity and critical thinking
- Knowledge of spreadsheet and presentation computer software, for example Microsoft Office or similar
- This is a hybrid position that requires you to be local and able to commute to one of the following offices: Pittsburgh, PA; Philadelphia, PA; Chicago, IL; Stamford, CT or New York, NY.
- Able to work legally in the United States indefinitely and without Visa sponsorship
- Accepting applications from candidates that graduate with a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree between May 2024 through June 2025
The Application-Interview Process:
Step 1: Online application, including resume/CV
Step 2: Online assessments and Video Interview
Step 3: Virtual Interview with business
Step 4: Offer and on-boarding
Compensation and Benefits
Base salary range and benefits information for this position are being included in accordance with requirements of various state/local pay transparency legislation. Please note that base salaries may vary for different individuals in the same role based on several factors, including but not limited to location of the role, individual competencies, education/professional certifications, qualifications/experience, performance in the role and potential for revenue generation (Producer roles only).
Compensation
The base salary compensation range being offered for this role is $68,000 – $70,000 USD. This role is also eligible for an annual short-term incentive bonus.
Company Benefits
WTW provides a competitive benefit package which includes the following (eligibility requirements apply):
- Health and Welfare Benefits: Medical (including prescription coverage), Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account, Commuter Account, Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, Group Accident, Group Critical Illness, Life Insurance, AD&D, Group Legal, Identify Theft Protection, Wellbeing Program and Work/Life Resources (including Employee Assistance Program)
- Leave Benefits: Paid Holidays, Annual Paid Time Off (includes paid state/local paid leave where required), Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, Other Leaves (e.g., Bereavement, FMLA, ADA, Jury Duty, Military Leave, and Parental and Adoption Leave)
- Retirement Benefits: Contributory Pension Plan and Savings Plan (401k).
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EOE, including disability/vets
At Willis Towers Watson, we believe that a culture of inclusion and diversity (I&D) is critical to our business. It’s not a separate initiative in its own silo. Rather, I&D is fundamental to everything we do including how we hire and promote, how we work with clients, and how our team’s function. With 45,000 colleagues serving more than 140 countries and markets, our company vision includes being a destination employer where colleagues work together as one team.
Illinois, United States
UNSOLICITEDCONTACT
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OUR OFFICES
Our colleagues serve more than 140 countries and markets around the world. This gives a global dimension to everything we do and creates lots of exciting opportunities for you to collaborate and grow. Explore the map below to see where you career could take you.
Meet our people
Massimiliano Abri
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Theodore Coteok
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Nichelle Daulby
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Shadab Hemani
Donna O'Riordan
Mitch Dauz
Kerstin Plag
Anna Stonelake
Mathew Stewart
Ritu Batheja
Matice Morris
Catarina Carvalho
Soumya Kurup
Leonardo Araujo
Karan Patel
Poonam Yadav
Tom Leigh-Eldredge
Karan Rai
Felipe Pradel
Michael McConnell
Mel Scrutton
Irene Larbi
Kingsley Wang
Charlie (Charlotte) Garrod
Laura Punzón
Nick Alexander
Benjamin Tessier
Paul Dowding
Pei Wang
Emma White
Basil Al Hatoum
Jasmin Bedi
Anshul Garg
Emily Reading
Dominic Ferrari
Suzanne Vaughan
Nuno Arruda
Salmaan Saeed
Massimiliano Abri
Burn Domingo
Theodore Coteok
Karuna Jose
Ana Cristessa Nabuab
Nichelle Daulby
Roberta Jones
Shadab Hemani
Donna O'Riordan
Mitch Dauz
Kerstin Plag
Anna Stonelake
Mathew Stewart
Ritu Batheja
Matice Morris
Catarina Carvalho
Soumya Kurup
Leonardo Araujo
Karan Patel
Poonam Yadav
Tom Leigh-Eldredge
Karan Rai
Felipe Pradel
Michael McConnell
Mel Scrutton
Irene Larbi
Kingsley Wang
Charlie (Charlotte) Garrod
Laura Punzón
Nick Alexander
Benjamin Tessier
Paul Dowding
Pei Wang
Emma White
Basil Al Hatoum
Jasmin Bedi
Anshul Garg
Emily Reading
Dominic Ferrari
Suzanne Vaughan
Nuno Arruda
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October 1 @ 12:00 pm - 4:00 pmNorthwestern Career Advancement In Person Career Fair (Fall 2024)
October 1 @ 12:00 pm - 4:00 pmFall Actuarial Career Fair
October 2 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pmUGA Risk Management and Insurance Careers Day Fall 2024
October 2 @ 3:30 pm - 6:30 pmFall 2024 In-Person All Majors Career Fair
October 3 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pmMaryville University Actuarial, Data, Computer Sciences, and Data Analytics Career Fair 2024
October 3 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pmGreenberg School of Risk Management Fall 2024 Job and Internship Career Fair
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