Senior Associate
About The Position
The Senior Associate works within WTW’s Integrated & Global Solutions (IGS) team, which serves the headquarters of multinational clients. IGS helps multinational companies navigate business, cultural, language, and regulatory environments, advises on specialist topics, and connects clients with expertise from colleagues around the world. The role supports senior consultants on large client engagements and leads smaller, multi-country projects. It provides strategic consulting expertise in global retirement plan accounting, valuation, and design; manages projects and reviews complex work; and contributes to client service, business development, and the development of tools and approaches. The position is with Willis Towers Watson US LLC in New York, NY.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related quantitative field.
- Three years of experience in a related International Benefits Consulting role.
- Prior experience providing consulting advice and services to multinational companies on retirement and broader employee benefit issues for their global operations.
- Prior experience delivering defined actuarial valuation work (ASC 715 or IAS19) and consulting services to multinational organizations.
- Prior experience in corporate defined benefit and/or group health plans.
- Prior experience working on global HR benefit programs.
- Prior experience successfully managing multiple projects and producing quality deliverables on time and within budget.
Responsibilities
- Support senior consultants on large client engagements and lead smaller client engagements on multi-country projects.
- Draft statements of work, project plans, and budgets involving multiple workflow streams and client and consultant teams across the globe.
- Serve as the primary daily contact for clients in headquarters and overseas offices regarding service delivery.
- Finalize and present quality deliverables to clients.
- Manage client expectations and raise appropriate issues to senior consultants.
- Establish trusted-advisor relationships with client contacts.
- Provide strategic consulting expertise in global retirement plan accounting, valuation, and design.
- Serve as project manager and perform technical reviews of complex global projects and other work products.
- Participate in special projects involving mergers and acquisitions, benefit plan strategy and design, plan management and governance strategy, and global financing and funding policies.
- Support senior consultants in penetrating local and regional markets, introduce new clients and projects to the firm, and identify cross-selling opportunities to meet annual revenue and billable-hour goals.
- Contribute to developing new tools and approaches, including monitoring and analyzing economic conditions in major markets and updating country profiles.
- Mentor analysts and manage project teams.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
