Early Careers: Work & Rewards Analyst – Montreal – 2027

WTW; Montreal; On-site; CAD 55,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

WTW in Montreal seeks a Work & Rewards Analyst to collaborate with top consultants on compensation strategy projects across industries. You will analyze data, draw conclusions, present results and recommend solutions while working in project teams.

The role covers base pay design, incentive design, benchmarking and regulatory awareness. You will develop analytical work, value equity awards, and communicate in English and French with clients.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in business, economics, human resources, marketing, finance, mathematics, statistics or any other major with meaningful 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
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English and French
• Accepting applications from candidates that graduate with a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree between May 2026 through June 2027

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

Analytical thinking

Client service

Self-starter

Team collaboration

Excel proficiency

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

Tools

Excel

Microsoft Office

Job description

Description

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 compensation plan design/calibration, legislative and regulatory trends, performance analysis, risk management, corporate governance, 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.

• 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, human resources, marketing, finance, mathematics, statistics or any other major with meaningful 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
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English and French
• Accepting applications from candidates that graduate with a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree between May 2026 through June 2027

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 [e-mail].

Equal Opportunity Employer