Global Benefits Analyst

Willis Towers Watson; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Paid time off

401k plan

Job summary

Willis Towers Watson seeks a professional to support multinational clients by coordinating local brokerage and consulting services in the area of employee benefits and related programs. You will collaborate with the headquarters and local teams to deliver high-quality consulting and project management across countries.

The role emphasizes international collaboration, financial reporting, and staying updated on regulatory changes.

Qualifications

• 1-2+ years of client-facing or consulting experience in employee benefits.
• Excellent communication, report writing and presentation skills.
• Well organized with high attention to detail and ability to prioritize conflicting work.
• Be effective at planning, monitoring and reviewing.
• Hands on experience with employee benefits or insurance market is a plus.
• Ability to work within an international team to high standards and tight timescales.
• Ability to analyze situations, provide recommendations and be flexible in approach.
• Proficiency in English (written and spoken); other languages (French/German) are a bonus.
• Bachelor’s Degree strongly required.
• Ability to travel on an as-needed basis.

Responsibilities

• Support client delivery activities, providing updates on local country activities and escalating issues with our clients.
• Develop and present global or regional financial and stewardship reports.
• Effectively manage projects using established project management tracker and technology to deliver a successful project across all countries.
• Keep abreast of changes in legislation or market practice to identify issues that clients should be addressing.
• Support the use of WTW technology to help clients maximize the value from the information collected.
• Review local deliverables to ensure consistency of style and message, as appropriate.
• Coordinate and project manage multi-country projects such as global benefit benchmarking exercises and governance processes.
• Work with the global consultant lead to deliver advice on financing of risk benefit programs (self-insurance, pooling and captive work) for feasibility study, negotiation, implementation and ongoing support.

Skills

Client facing

Project management

English proficiency

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Description

Are you looking for a stimulating role, working with colleagues all round the world to help fix client solutions?

This role involves supporting our multinational clients directly and by working effectively with local colleagues in a variety of countries. Specifically, you will be responsible for coordinating local brokerage and consulting services in the area of medical and other insured benefit programs, as well as providing consulting services around all employee benefits to the headquarters.

The IGS team comprises over 300 colleagues across all WTW geographies and is dedicated to serving the needs of the headquarters of its multinational clients. Operating in the global marketplace means multinational companies face a variety of different business, cultural, language and regulatory environments. IGS colleagues get involved in four key areas as follows: multi-country coordination and project management; strategic advice around the management of employee benefits; technical expertise on global risk management; supporting global reach.

You will supportour multinational clients through various consulting and project management activities such as:

• Support client delivery activities, providing updates on local country activities and proactively identifying and escalating issues with our clients.
• Develop and present global or regional financial and stewardship reports.
• Effectively manage projects using established project management tracker and technology to deliver a successful project across all countries, regularly engaging with local colleagues globally.
• Keep abreast of changes in legislation, market practice or otherwise, to identify issues that clients should be addressing.
• Support the use of WTW technology to help clients to maximize the value from the information collected.
• Review local deliverables to ensure consistency of style and message, as appropriate.
• Coordinate and project manage multi-country projects such as global benefit benchmarking exercises, cost savings projects and governance processes.
• Work with the global consultant lead to deliver advice to multinational clients about the financing of their risk benefit programs, such as self-insurance, multinational risk benefits pooling and employee benefit captive work - for feasibility study, negotiation, selection, implementation and ongoing support.

Qualifications

The Requirements

• 1-2+ years of client facing or consulting experience in the benefits space
• You enjoy delivering complex solutions to internal and external clients, while delivering proactively on time and on budget.
• Excellent communication, report writing and presentation skills.
• Well organized and high attention-to-detail with ability to prioritize conflicting work schedules.
• Be effective at planning, monitoring and reviewing.
• Hands on experience with employee benefits or insurance market (is a plus).
• Ability to work within an international team to high standards and tight timescales.
• Ability to analyze situations, provide recommendations and be flexible in approach in order to resolve problems.
• Proficiency in English (written and spoken). Other languages (especially French and German) are a bonus.
• Bachelor’s Degree is strongly required
• Ability to travel on as needed basis

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

This position will remain posted for a minimum of three business days from the date posted or until a sufficient/appropriate candidate slate has been identified.

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 $75,000.00 - $95,000.00 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),Paid Time Off
• Retirement Benefits:Contributory Pension Plan and Savings Plan (401k). All Level 38 and more senior roles may also be eligible for non-qualified Deferred Compensation and Deferred Savings Plans.

This position will remain posted for a minimum of three business days from the date posted or until a sufficient/appropriate candidate slate has been identified.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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.

EOE, including disability/vets