Health & Benefits Financial/Analytical Analyst

WTW; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 65,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Flexible arrangements

Annual bonus

Job summary

WTW in Canada is seeking a Health & Benefits Analyst to support financial analyses, proposal development, and client deliverables across regional teams. The role involves modeling, benchmarking, and contributing to benefits strategy through carrier procurement and negotiation.

You will engage with client service teams, global delivery centers, and vendors to ensure timely, high-quality outputs while expanding knowledge of health and benefits programs and related funding concepts.

Qualifications

• 1+ years’ experience in health benefits or underwriting.
• Ability to manage multiple deliverables on time and within budget.
• Knowledge of benefit program products, underwriting, and funding.
• Experience with traditional and flexible benefit programs including RFPs.
• Strong analytical thinking with data-driven insights.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Support financial analyses and client deliverables across regional teams.
• Develop financial models and analysis for benefit programs.
• Assist with carrier procurement, negotiations, and proposals.
• Coordinate renewal/placement deliverables with deadlines.
• Collaborate with Global Delivery Centers and client service teams.
• Ensure quality standards and compliance.

Skills

Health benefits knowledge

Financial analysis

Project management

Negotiation

Data analysis

Written and verbal communication

Self-starter

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

Education

University degree

Job description

Description

As a Health & Benefits Analyst you will support a wide variety of projects involving the design, funding, measurement, and financial analysis of the full spectrum of employer health and benefit programs including medical, dental, life, disability, voluntary benefits, etc., and will contribute to a client’s benefits strategy through managing the entire carrier procurement and negotiation process. You will interface with client service teams and global delivery centers to contribute to analyses and client deliverables, ensuring quality standards are met. You will have the opportunity to significantly grow your health and benefits business acumen as well as your financial, project management, negotiation, and communication skills by working on cutting edge projects alongside leaders in the industry.

The Role

• Play an active support role in multiple client teams developing financial analyses, outputs and client deliverables across a regional team.
• Develop working proficiency of core financial, actuarial and analytics theories, models and tools.
• Support accurate and reliable claim reporting and financial modeling to guide client decisions.
• Develop basic knowledge of all broad-based benefit programs (e.g., health care, pharmacy, wellbeing, life, disability, voluntary benefits, etc.)
• Assist with financial modeling of benefit plan designs, cost avoidance/funding strategies, and budget projections and rate/contribution development
• Take responsibility for execution of specific tasks that contribute to financial, analytical and placement deliverables for clients, with guidance and adherence to stated deadlines.
• Manage follow-up questions/request from the carriers/vendors
• Collect, summarize and analyze proposal findings; support negotiations, make recommendations for finalist carriers, and communication to carriers
• Design and manage placement (renewal/marketing) deliverables with a strict adherence to stated deadlines
• Increase efficiency within client teams by identifying ways to improve processes.
• Build relationships internally and collaborate effectively on cross-functional teams.
• Partner with Global Delivery Centers and Client Service teams to deliver superior project management.
• Comply with internal excellence and compliance requirements.
• Contribute to the development of new intellectual capital.

Qualifications

• 1+ years’ experience ideally gained in a benefit consulting / brokerage firm or health underwriting / actuarial function of an insurance company

• Proven ability to manage multiple deliverables simultaneously and produce quality deliverables on time and within budget

• Strong knowledge of benefit program products & services, underwriting and funding concepts

• Experience with both traditional and flexible benefit programs – design elements, renewal pricing, analysis, risk assessment, negotiations, RFP process and analysis

• Strong analytical thinker with experience working with data, developing insights to draw conclusions

• A desire and ability to support the client team in expanding relationships with clients

• Proven ability to identify and resolve issues with limited information

• Polished and well developed written and verbal communication skills

• Self-starter attitude, curious with an ability to work independently and as part of a team

• Creative and integrative skills

• Ability to direct work of more junior colleagues and provide feedback

• Excellent Microsoft Office skills, particularly in Excel and PowerPoint

• Life and Health license required within 180 days of joining

• Relevant experience and/or university degree 1+ years’ experience ideally gained in a benefit consulting / brokerage firm or health underwriting / actuarial function of an insurance company

• Proven ability to manage multiple deliverables simultaneously and produce quality deliverables on time and within budget

• Strong knowledge of benefit program products & services, underwriting and funding concepts

• Experience with both traditional and flexible benefit programs – design elements, renewal pricing, analysis, risk assessment, negotiations, RFP process and analysis

• Strong analytical thinker with experience working with data, developing insights to draw conclusions

• A desire and ability to support the client team in expanding relationships with clients

• Proven ability to identify and resolve issues with limited information

• Polished and well developed written and verbal communication skills

• Self-starter attitude, curious with an ability to work independently and as part of a team

• Creative and integrative skills

• Ability to direct work of more junior colleagues and provide feedback

• Excellent Microsoft Office skills, particularly in Excel and PowerPoint

• Life and Health license required within 180 days of joining

• Relevant experience and/or university degree

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 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 $65,000- $80,000 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.

At WTW, we trust you to know your work and the people, tools and environment you need to be successful. The majority of our colleagues work in a ”hybrid” style, with a mix of remote, in-person and in-office interactions dependent on the needs of the team, role and clients. Our flexibility is rooted in trust and “hybrid” is not a one-size-fits-all solution.

We understand flexibility is key to supporting an inclusive and diverse workforce and so we encourage requests for all types of flexible working as well as location-based arrangements. Please speak to your recruiter to discuss more.

EOE, including disability/vets