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The Reward and Wellbeing practice is looking for a practitioner with knowledge of the reward profession.

The Deloitte Human Capital – Reward and Wellbeing Consulting Practice has deep expertise in areas such as salary surveys, job profiling, job evaluation, salary benchmarking, development of remuneration policies and strategies, short–term incentive design and implementation, long–term incentives (share-based and cash) design and implementation, development of retention schemes and sales commission design. We help clients achieve their goals by ensuring their reward practices facilitate talent attraction, retention, and motivation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ascertain client needs, conduct sales presentations and develop proposals and tenders.
• Project management of engagements ensuring compliance with statutory and legal frameworks.
• Deliver significant projects and programmes. This will involve working closely with clients to improve their remuneration practices, policies and processes as part of a team or managing teams in quality delivery within tight deadlines and according to client objectives.
• Utilise strong data analysis skills and apply best practice information in project delivery.
• Present engagement results to client representatives (Board, Exco, Remco, HR/Reward Executives).
• Contribute to client issues using your insight and experience to solve complex client issues.
• Perform analysis to determine client needs/recommendations using experience, industry knowledge, tools and technology.
• Work with a range of stakeholders and be seen as a subject matter expert within client organisations and colleagues.
• Contribute to the practice’s growth by internal networking and supporting new business opportunities.
• Proposal development.

• Candidates must hold a relevant degree and have ten years of consulting or corporate experience.
• Global Remuneration Practitioner (GRP) accreditation is an added advantage.

Solid knowledge base in business and demonstrate the following skillset:

• Numerate with good MS Excel skills
• Experience in a range of remuneration functions, including but not limited to benchmarking, the development and implementation of remuneration strategies and policies and dealing with fixed and variable pay design and implementation
• Must demonstrate a sound understanding of the governance related to reward interventions
• Excellent facilitation, communication and data analysis skills
• Experience managing client relationships and teams

Talent Standards Capabilities:

Technical Competencies

• Possess specialised knowledge in Reward.
• Demonstrated Time Management skill.
• Good report writing skills.
• Developing depth and breadth in Consulting skills (i.e., business insights, contribution to commercial impact).
• Sound experience in presenting proposals, points of view, project outcomes to external clients.
• Emerging knowledge and understanding of market trends as well as best practice in relation to Total Rewards.
• Business Acumen

Behavioural

• Excellent communication (written and verbal) and business partnering skills.
• Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills.
• Strong client delivery focus.
• Strong quality and risk management orientation.
• Adaptable to managing sudden change and ambiguity with ease.
• Ability to operate independently to make custom adjustments to standard offerings to meet client needs.
• Ability to solve a range of problems, ranging from basic to complex.
• Mentorship and coaching ability, with willingness to guide others.

Senior Staff Talent Standards 

• Living our Purpose - Identify and embrace our purpose and values and put these into practice in their professional life.
• Influence - Build relationships and communicate effectively in order to positively influence peers and other stakeholders
• Performance drive - Seek opportunities to challenge self; teams with others across businesses and borders to deliver and takes accountability for own and team results
• Strategic direction - Understand objectives for clients and Deloitte, align own work to objectives and sets personal priorities

Cross Consulting Capabilities

• Delivery Excellence - Ability to produce a high quality work product and collaborate with others to deliver a superior client experience
• Knows the Business and Sector - Ability to understand how business functions operate and how sector trends impact a client’s business
• Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Ability to select appropriate methods for collecting and analysing data, and develop informed recommendations that shape or support the client’s business strategy
• Financial Acumen - Ability to incorporate financial information when evaluating strategic options
• Executive Presence - Ability to deliver key messages with clarity, confidence and poise to instil confidence in clients
• Logical Structuring - Ability to organise insights and define a logical flow to tell a story when presenting recommendations
• Global Mindset - Ability to apply a global and diverse perspective to problem solving
• Business-Technology Acumen - Ability to address client business challenges in the intersection of process and technology

Service Line Capabilities

• Builds Broad-based Domain Knowledge - Ability to apply breadth of experience in a domain to support initiatives that enable the client’s strategic agenda
• Employs Analytical Acumen - Ability to develop a sound business case and tell a story through detailed analysis and insights

*Please note that this job advertisement provides a summary of the capabilities required and all candidates shortlisted will receive a full list of capabilities.

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