Reward Analyst, Talent & Reward Consulting at Willis Towers Watson

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Willis Towers Watson scores 4/5 based on 235 reviews.

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What are the Best and Worst things about your job?

Best

The best things about my job are the following: I get to work on challenging problems and provide service and insight that is invaluable to clients in solving real problems that will benefit people across the organisation. I work within such a fantastic team and there is a brilliant working culture. We often have socials and build great friendships. There is great career progression and there is an onus placed on learning and development with senior role models who are more than happy to put the time into providing you with support and coaching. You are also rewarded with a good base salary and benefits package and the office location in London is a great perk too!

Worst

I would struggle to find a criticism of my job, I was lucky to know that it was exactly the line of work that I wanted to go into. If pushed, there can be times when you are working a lot, this could be due to lots of client deliverables happening at the same time, or just some clients being demanding with their timelines. It is important to manage your workload effectively and speak to your manager or other people in the team if you have too much on your plate.

What is the annual salary for this role?

Starting salary: £31,000 - £33,000

Current salary: £31,000 - £33,000

What hours do you actually work, on average?

Start: 09:00

Finish: 18:00

What advice would you give to someone applying to this role?

Make sure you have read up on the business area that you are applying to and have a good reason for why you want to work in Talent & Reward consulting. For the psychometric tests, ensure that you put the time into practice, practice and practice. I can't stress the importance of practice! It helped me massively to complete the psychometric tests stage.

Do you have any interview tips?

Be confident, enthusiastic, passionate and personable. Interviewers want to know why you want to work in consulting, why Willis Towers Watson, why Talent & Reward. They also want to know more information about you as a person; what you like to do in your free time, what motivates you. Make sure you read up on the latest news in HR, what are big-name companies getting up to - particularly in the compensation space? I would also suggest learning some of the key terminology/methodology used in the rewards space - key terms such as benchmarking, job levelling, the process involved in M&A from an HR perspective. This will help for exercises within the assessment centre and at the same time demonstrate your enthusiasm and passion for working within the reward space.