Rewards/Compensation Senior Analyst – French Speaker

This Rewards/Compensation Senior Analyst role at Mercer in Johannesburg offers exposure to internal and external clients in a global environment. The position is hybrid, requiring three days in the office. Responsibilities include administering remuneration surveys across African countries, contributing to sales and marketing strategy, managing campaigns for other Mercer products, and supporting consulting teams. The role requires strong analytical, communication, and collaboration skills, with a focus on client engagement and project participation.

Must Have

• Administer remuneration surveys and other products across African countries with client service team
• Perform client canvassing, data collection, data cleaning, and reporting for surveys
• Conduct high-level client analysis when required
• Contribute to the design of country sales and marketing strategy
• Execute country sales and marketing strategy
• Manage campaigns of other Mercer products in assigned countries
• Engage clients regularly on Mercer products including employee engagement surveys and analysis tools
• Support the delivery of other Mercer products under supervision of associates and senior associates
• Participate in internal company projects
• Provide ad-hoc support to the consulting team
• Manage key client accounts

Good to Have

• Comfortable working on international projects in a structured organization
• Enthusiastic personality and willingness to learn
• Ready to play a leading role in cross-functional team collaboration
• Focused on understanding how things work in detail
• Great communicator and a team player

Perks & Benefits

• Professional development opportunities
• Interesting work
• Supportive leaders
• Vibrant and inclusive culture
• Opportunity to work with talented colleagues
• Create new solutions and have impact for colleagues, clients and communities
• Range of career opportunities
• Benefits and rewards to enhance well-being

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

As a Rewards/Compensation Senior Analyst, you will have great exposure to internal and external clients, working with colleagues across geographies in a global environment.

You will be working for the world’s leading HR consulting firm.

We will count on you to:

• Administer remuneration surveys and other products, across various African countries together with a client service team.
• Survey administration includes client canvassing, data collection, data cleaning and reporting. Some high-level client analysis also required from time to time.
• Contribute to the design of the country sales and marketing strategy.
• Execute country sales and marketing strategy.
• Manage campaigns of other Mercer products in assigned countries Regular client engagement related to other Mercer products, including employee engagement surveys, remuneration analysis tools, employee assessment tools, job evaluation and so forth.
• Support the delivery of other Mercer products under the supervision of associates and senior associates.
• Participate in internal company projects.
• Ad-hoc support to consulting team.
• Key client account management.

What you need to have:

• Bachelor degree preferred.
• Fluent French and English level (spoken and written).
• Previous experience in the rewards or compensation and benefits environment.
• Able to travel sporadically into Africa for clients’ engagements.
• Driver license and own car (or ready to use Uber).
• Proficiency knowledge of MS Office products (Excel- advanced, Word, PowerPoint).
• “Can do” attitude and ability to resolve escalated issues in a timely and professional way.
• Strong attention to detail and follow-through skills to resolve any outstanding issues.
• Able to collaborate with colleagues or other stakeholders across the globe.
• Is a self-starter and shows empathy.

What makes you stand out?

• Comfortable and motivated to work on international projects in a well-structured organization.
• Enthusiastic personality and willingness to learn.
• Ready to play a leading role in helping cross functional teams collaborate and achieve challenging goals.
• Focused on the importance of getting down to the detail of how things work.
• Great communicator and a team player.

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.