Mercer Career Compensation Consulting Analyst

We are seeking a talented individual to join our Career - Rewards team at Mercer. This role will be based in Toronto. This is a hybrid role that has a requirement of working at least three days a week in the office.

Mercer's Career business segment helps our clients around the world engage their talent to drive business performance. Career consultants partner with HR leaders, board members, and top-level executives to optimize business performance through strategies that enable organizations to better reward and engage their people. We stay ahead of the competition by providing best-in-class information, unsurpassed global reach, dedicated support services, and innovative solutions. We bring clients a range of integrated solutions across five practice areas: Workforce Rewards, Executive Rewards, Workforce Planning & Analytics, Communications & Change Management and HR Transformation.

**We will count on you to**:

- Conduct market research and analysis to understand industry and organization-specific issues, including compensation and rewards trends, business strategy, corporate performance, and hiring and retention challenges
- Combine an understanding of clients’ internal needs with external market practices to help facilitate a client’s go-forward rewards strategy and programs
- Analyze clients' strategic, financial, and organizational information to provide insights that will develop into talent strategies and solutions
- Design and implement executive, workforce, and sales compensation structures and incentive plans to align pay and performance with corporate strategic objectives
- Develop and implement job evaluation systems and performance management programs
- Perform pay equity diagnostics that drive clients’ pay equity compliance strategy for provincially and/or federally-regulated clients
- Prepare client reports and presentations, including recommendations presented to senior management, HR leaders, boards of directors, and executives

**What You Need to Have**
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills, both quantitative and qualitative
- Strong working knowledge of Excel including advanced formulas (VLOOKUP, INDEX (MATCH), COUNTIF, AVERAGEIF, etc.) and developing analysis files and dashboards
- Demonstrated experience in data analysis and presentation design
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
- Intellectual curiosity and a drive to understand “the why”, seeking opportunities to develop deeper understanding and new skills
- Flexibility, adaptability, and the ability to work under tight deadlines and changing client needs
- Superior organizational skills and strong attention to detail

**What Makes You Stand Out?**
- Completing a Bachelor's degree majoring in commerce, business, economics, finance, statistics, accounting, mathematics, psychology or HR preferred by May 2025
- Consulting, business, finance/banking, accounting, HR, and/or economics internship experience preferred
- Demonstrated academic excellence with a minimum GPA of 3.0
- Involvement in extra-curricular activities, clubs and/or sports teams preferred

**Why join our team**:

- We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work and supportive leaders.
- We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have impact for colleagues, clients and communities.
- Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being.

Marsh McLennan is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh McLennan colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.