Senior Associate - People Sustainability (Reward & Pay Transparency)

Senior Associate - People Sustainability (Reward & Pay Transparency)

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Your Team

Our People Sustainability team helps Swiss and international organisations build fair, transparent and sustainable workplaces and address impacts on people across the value chain. We combine expertise in broad-based reward, pay equity and workforce sustainability with data, technology and a commercial mindset. Our work spans salary structures, job architecture, pay transparency, people-related sustainability reporting, human rights due diligence and sustainable employment practices, helping clients align people priorities with business strategy and evolving expectations from employees, regulators and other stakeholders.

Your Impact

• Advise Swiss and international clients on salary structures, pay frameworks, compensation policies and other broad-based reward topics, while building trusted client relationships.
• Design job families, career levels and grading frameworks, and apply consistent job evaluation approaches to create clear and transparent structures.
• Analyse compensation and workforce data, investigate pay gaps and translate complex findings into practical recommendations.
• Guide organisations in preparing for pay transparency requirements, from readiness assessments and action plans to implementation and employee communication.
• Help clients navigate evolving regulatory requirements across reward, pay transparency and people sustainability, translating these into practical policies, processes and actions, and contributing to business development.
• Support clients with people-related sustainability reporting, including defining meaningful metrics and developing disclosures covering their own workforce and workers in the value chain.
• Apply AI, analytics and automation to improve project delivery, strengthen reward and workforce analyses and develop innovative client solutions, collaborating with specialists across reward, sustainability and adjacent people advisory disciplines.

Your Skill Set

• 3 - 5 years of relevant professional experience in reward, compensation, job evaluation, pay equity or people analytics, gained in consulting or an in-house environment.
• Strong analytical capabilities and confidence working with compensation and workforce data in Excel.
• Sound understanding of how organisations structure jobs, career levels and pay decisions; experience with EU pay transparency requirements is an advantage.
• Genuine interest in technology, AI and digital tools and the ability to apply them thoughtfully to practical business challenges.
• Commercial and proactive mindset, with strong relationship-building skills and an interest in identifying opportunities to support clients.
• Clear communication and presentation skills, ownership of work and fluency in English and either German and/or French.

Your Benefits

Hybrid Flexible Working Model

Our work model enables you to spend part of your time working in the office and part at home (provided this is your preference) - unless you’re at your clients’ premises, which is of course always the priority. This approach allows you to tailor your schedule to your personal working style.

Learn and Grow

Our learning and development approach helps you gain valuable skills and knowledge to advance your career, not just at PwC. We offer a variety of internal and external courses for training and upskilling. Identify your strengths and areas for improvement and gain new skills to achieve your professional goals. You’ll build confidence, enhance your job performance, and take your career to the next level.

Sustainable Performance

PwC is committed to creating an environment of sustainable performance. We therefore offer a range of resources such as sustainable performance workshops, self-leadership trainings, resilience and mindfulness sessions, nutrition webinars, and yoga courses.

Vacation and Leave

From maternity, paternity, and adoption leave to vacation and paid leave, we know it’s essential to take time away from work. At PwC, you can enjoy a variety of leave options to recharge, relax, or achieve personal milestones.

Volunteering

Are you passionate about doing good and making a difference? That’s great, because so are we at PwC. We encourage you to participate in volunteer work by offering paid time off for volunteering activities. Our Corporate Sustainability programmes help you find purpose and fulfilment while working with us.

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Your Contact

Roxana Hofer

Recruitment Team

Any questions? We are happy to help.

Tel. +41 58 792 12 52

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At PwC Switzerland, we help clients build trust and reinvent so they can turn complexity into competitive advantage. We're part of a tech-forward, people-empowered network and help clients build, accelerate and sustain momentum across audit, assurance, tax, legal, workforce, deals and consulting.