Senior Team Member: Reward - JHB/CPT at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

• As a Senior member of the team, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:
• Encourage everyone to have a voice and invite opinion from all, including quieter members of the team.
• Deal effectively with ambiguous and unstructured problems and situations.
• Initiate open and candid coaching conversations at all levels.
• Move easily between big picture thinking and managing relevant detail.
• Anticipate stakeholder needs, and develop and discuss potential solutions, even before the stakeholder realises they are required.
• Contribute technical knowledge in area of specialism.
• Contribute to an environment where people and technology thrive together to accomplish more than they could apart.
• Navigate the complexities of cross-border and/or diverse teams and engagements.
• Initiate and lead open conversations with teams, clients and stakeholders to build trust.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Preferred skills

• Technical and client delivery responsibilities.  Your typical activities include: remuneration committee advisory work within your field of expertise; advising clients on their total reward models (fixed and variable pay); pay progression models; design of incentive plans (short- and long-term); fair pay analysis; remuneration benchmarking; performance condition advice; non-executive director pay; critical reviews of remuneration practices, drafting papers including review outcomes and recommendations for new structures to clients; analysis of remuneration reporting in light of King IV and assisting clients with preparing remuneration reports and policies to be contained in the integrated annual report of the company; monitoring of institutional investor voting patterns and regulation, and analysis of these trends with respect to both design and disclosure of all aspects of remuneration (in particular executive remuneration); awareness of topical issues surrounding executive reward, both globally and locally, and the preparation of communication material to remuneration committees regarding this information, as well as providing ongoing advice.
• Client management: you actively engage and manage client relationships and PwC internal contracting processes.
• Marketing and new business development: you actively support client acquisition and targeting activities and development of new business and solutions.
• Managing inputs of the Reward team’s thought leadership publications and actively contributing to thought leadership and other client focus activities (e.g. RemCo round table events, institutional investor roundtable events etc), in conjunction with the other members of the senior leadership team within Reward.
• Staff management: you lead and develop the staff within the reward team.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelors Degree
• 5 - 8 years experience as a Rewards Manager, preferably within the consulting space