Graduate Trainee - Global Data Services, India (6 months role)
Job ID#: 19485
Location(s): Gurgaon
Segment Talent & Rewards
Business Area Data, Surveys and Technology
Employment Status: Fixed Term Contract
Minimum Education: Bachelors Degree
Minimum Experience: N/A
The Company
Go beyond.At Towers Watson, we are more than individuals. We are a community focused on helping our colleagues and clients thrive and succeed. Towers Watson is a leading global professional services company that helps organizations improve performance through effective people, risk and financial management. With 15,000 associates around the world, we offer consulting, technology and solutions in the areas of benefits, talent management, rewards, and risk and capital management.
The Business
Towers Watson Data Services is a global center of excellence for compensation, benefits and employment practices information. Our databases cover more than 100 countries, ensuring we can support companies wherever they do business. Our rigorous data processes, coupled with the depth of our databases, guarantee the delivery of high-quality, robust data and consistent reporting practices.
In addition to compensation surveys, we publish reference materials that help HR practitioners attract, retain and reward exceptional employees. We also provide tools to help compensation and benefit managers analyze market data efficiently and conduct in-depth analysis to aid future program planning.
The Role
As a Graduate Trainee in our Data Services team,you will work on a variety of compensation and benefits surveys and related assignments. You will serve as a key resource for the Senior Analyst/ Consultant in charge of each of your engagements by working with clients to collect compensation and benefits data, conduct checks and validation as well as support data analysis and reporting by heavily utilizing excel and other technology tools.
Contribution to Total Rewards Survey:
* Market research in support of business development initiatives
* Building up an exhaustive database across industry verticals
* Collection, collation and analysis of data
Performance Objectives:
Excellence
* Supports several projects and may eventually manage major parts of a project, paying strict adherence to project management and client requirements
* Conducts data checks, validation and analysis in order to ensure clients’ compensation and benefits data submission are properly checked for completeness, accuracy and consistency
* Under close supervision, may serve as member of an integrated project team to deliver consulting client projects
* Seek ways to improve the level of quality to ensure excellence in client deliverables
* Keep improving ways of problem solving, production and/or work flow
* Identify, discuss and document lessons learned from completed projects
People
* Build relationships internally and collaborate effectively among team members
* Collaborate with others by conveying ideas, issues and information in a fluent and logical manner and providing constructive peer feedback
* Demonstrate natural ease and effectiveness when dealing with clients/colleagues at all levels
* Self-motivated and able to work with little supervision
The Requirements
* Graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in commerce, mathematics, statistics, economics or business management.
* Strong written and verbal communication skills
* Strong analytical skills
Other Skills
* Strong working knowledge of software applications for analysis and reporting, particularly MS Excel
* Strong attention to detail
* Good analytical and research capabilities with the ability to challenge conventional thinking
* Self-driven achiever with a value for teamwork, collaboration, decisiveness, integrity in all that is done
* Analytical; able to draw conclusions from data in a logical and systematic way
* Conceptual; ability to go beyond the details and see the big picture
* Ability to acquire, share, and disseminate new information and knowledge