Early Careers: Work & Rewards Analyst – Toronto – 2026

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Early Careers: Work & Rewards Analyst – Toronto – 2026

  • 202600625
  • Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • Full time
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Description

Please submit a CV/resume and cover letter in 1 PDF file with your application.

Note: Employment-based non-immigrant visa sponsorship and/or assistance is not offered for this specific job opportunity.

Create your future. Our Work & Rewards teams are the global leaders in defining work and rewards strategies with our clients. Our team effectively aligns executive and broad employee pay, benefits and other rewards with the interest of our clients’ stakeholders. Our team consults to a broad array of clients on matters related to corporate governance, legislative and regulatory trends, performance analysis, risk management and compensation plan design/calibration, among others.

Explore an opportunity. As an Work & Rewards Analyst, you will work side-by-side with some of the industry’s top consultants while you develop cutting edge technical knowledge and skills and gain experience working with a variety of clients across industries. You will have immediate exposure to real client assignments which will draw on your imagination and creativity as well as your ability to analyze data, draw conclusions, present results and recommend potential solutions. Working within project teams, you will collaborate with colleagues with a similar interest in human resources strategies and be exposed to other segments of WTW.

Our projects range in scope from specific solutions (e.g., base pay program design, job evaluation, incentive design, pay level benchmarking, goal-setting methodology development, performance management program design, custom surveys) to broad cross-LOB engagements such as total rewards strategy and total rewards

Love your work.  While every day and assignment is somewhat different, some of your main responsibilities will include: 

  • Partnering with consultants and clients to design philosophies and strategies to attract, reward and retain talent

  • Helping our clients ensure that their reward programs are competitive by performing competitive benchmarking analyses

  • Performing industry and financial research

  • Keeping abreast of legal, regulatory and legislative trends that relate to corporate governance and compensation

  • Modeling pay structures and conducting financial impact analyses of alternative designs

  • Developing, analyzing and calibrating executive and broad-based incentive plan designs that help support companies’ business strategies

  • Drafting documents presenting the team’s analytical work to client audiences

  • Valuing equity awards through the application of financial formulas

  • Increasing efficiency within client teams by identifying ways to improve processes

Qualifications

About you.  

  • Bachelor’s Degree in business, economics, finance, mathematics, statistics or any other major with significant quantitative course work, and minimum GPA of 3.0 (expected graduation Spring 2026)

  • Work experience that demonstrates strong technical and/or client service skills (analyst type of internship preferred

  • Passion for solving problems and sharing solutions to exceed the standards of the client

  • Strong financial literacy is highly preferred

  • Ability to be a self-starter and work independently, but also cooperatively in a close team environment

  • Excellent oral and written communication skills

  • Excellent Microsoft Office skills, particularly in Excel 

  • Accepting applications from candidates that graduate with a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree between May 2025 through August 2026 

The Application-Interview Process: 

Step 1: Online application, including resume/CV and cover letter 

Step 2: Online assessments and Video Interview  

Step 3: Virtual Interview with hiring manager and team  

Step 4: Offer and onboarding 

Compensation

The base salary compensation range being offered for this role is $65,000 - $70,000 CAD per year.

 

This role is also eligible for an annual short-term incentive bonus.


Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools may be used in the process to screen, assess, or select applicants for a position but all final decisions and determinations are made exclusively by authorized human personnel.

This job posting is an advertisement for an existing vacancy.
 
We’re committed to equal employment opportunity and provide application, interview and workplace adjustments and accommodations to all applicants. If you foresee any barriers, from the application process through to joining WTW, please email candidate.helpdesk@willistowerswatson.com.

Equal Opportunity Employer 

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