ACA Newly Qualified, Executive Compensation Consultant

Consultant, ACA Newly Qualified – Executive Compensation. London, UK.

We’re hiring!

We are currently looking to hire a Consultant to join our Rewards Solutions practice based in London. 

Our work consists of advising Remuneration Committees, Boards and senior management on levels of pay, incentive design, choosing and setting performance targets, corporate governance, packages for joiners and leavers.  We help companies undergoing change from start-ups and IPOs to disposals and acquisitions.

About Aon

Aon is a leading global professional services firm providing a broad range of Health, Wealth and Career solutions.  Our 50,000 colleagues in 120 countries empower results to advise clients using proprietary data and analytics to deliver insights that improve performance and governance.

Aon provides compensation consulting, operational benchmarking, and best practice research with a specific focus in the growth areas of financial services, FinTech, technology and life sciences across a broad range of private, pre-IPO and listed companies. Aon combines 50 years of thought leadership in strategy, performance, corporate governance and compensation with fact-based advice to create a tailored solution specific to our clients. Aon Executive Compensation Advisory is part of the Human Capital Solutions practice at Aon plc (NYSE: AON). For more information on McLagan, please visit mclagan.aon.com.

Aon is an equal opportunities employer.  Aon's recruitment and selection policy ensures the best possible skill mix of colleagues and the highest quality candidates are appointed using objective job-related criteria.

About the Role

As a Consultant your key responsibilities will involve:

Provision of Executive Compensation consulting; including supporting private companies as they design compensation structures specific to the challenges they face and to companies preparing for IPO prior to listing.

Becoming an important contact for the client.

Supporting and project managing client engagements involving assessing business challenge and designing solutions and managing the RFP process with the client, Procurement and Legal.

Execution/client delivery of high calibre professional advice including client reports.

Developing and training early career team members on execution/client delivery.

Technical knowledge on Executive Compensation. To include UK corporate governance on Executive Compensation, incentive design including selection of performance measures, performance calibration, equity plan valuations, benchmarking and ideally financial services regulation.

Responsible for working in accordance with the Aon UK Limited Risk Management Framework, and compliance with the Aon UK Limited policies, including participation in the management of risks (including completion of mandatory training) that may adversely affect the business, interests or reputation of any Group Company.

About you

As a Consultant your skills and qualifications will ideally include:

A proven track record of acting as a remuneration consultant.

Strong interpersonal skills building and managing client relationships

Collegiate team player and proven experience of mentoring a team, committed to working with and developing team members.

Good communication skills – both written and face-to-face, ability to simplify and summarise complex information based on client needs.

Able to manage stakeholder requirements and expectations.

Strong communications skills (both verbal and written).

Ability to prioritise tasks and manage multiple initiatives.

Articulate with clients and staff providing practical context when communicating technical knowledge of Executive Compensation, including UK Executive Compensation governance, investor relations and legal requirements.

A thorough understanding of remuneration and the issues affecting reward. Incentive design experience, including selection of performance measures and performance calibration.

Ideally (but not essential), an understanding of the financial services remuneration regulations, their background, application and likely future development. Experience of advising on their application and implementation. This experience may have been gained through an in-house Reward, consulting or legal background.

An interest in at least one of financial services, technology and life sciences sectors, the current challenges and outlook.

Professional qualification (Accountant, Actuary, Legal, CFA, other relevant) and degree level education preferred.

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We offer you

A competitive total rewards package, continuing education & training, and tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization. Aon is an equal opportunities employer.  Aon's recruitment and selection policy ensures the best possible skill mix of colleagues and the highest quality candidates are appointed using objective job-related criteria.

Aon is an equal opportunities employer.  Aon's recruitment and selection policy ensures the best possible skill mix of colleagues and the highest quality candidates are appointed using objective job-related criteria.