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Overview We are seeking a talented individual to join our Career team s role will be based in Ottawa . This is a hybrid role that requires 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 bring clients a range of integrated solutions across five practice areas:
Workforce Rewards, Executive Rewards, Workforce Planning & Analytics, Communications & Change Management and HR Transformation.
As a Compensation Analyst in the Rewards practice, you will work with a broad range of clients and industries in a stimulating environment, participating as an integral member of project teams to diagnose issues and design strategic human resource solutions that support clients’ success. You will provide quantitative and qualitative analytical support to senior consultants and draw meaningful conclusions from client and market data.
Responsibilities 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
Examples of projects Designing and implementing a gender-neutral, pay equity-compliant job evaluation system to determine a company’s internal hierarchy
Executive and non-executive compensation benchmarking
Conducting trends research regarding short and long-term incentive programs
Developing a base salary and bonus program for non-executive employees
Creating a compensation program for sales positions, including commissions
Creating a career architecture including elements such as role profiles and career path tools
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 December 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…
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