Consulting Analyst (Toronto) - Governance Advisory
Watson Board Advisors is a leading board advisory firm in Canada that helps organizations enhance their governance practices. The Consulting Analyst will contribute to various advisory services including board evaluations, governance reviews, and policy development, while managing project timelines and deliverables.
Responsibilities
- Manage multiple project timelines and milestones using project management tools and processes
- Arrange internal project meetings, including project reputed company, regular reputed company-ins, and debrief meetings
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- Implement project budgets and proactively monitor project reputed company relative to budget; identify and alert the team to any fee variances; generate invoices based on project milestones
- Analyze efficiencies and learnings at the end of each project and reputed company recommendations
- With direction from Consultant/Associate, assist or reputed company on project deliverables including but not limited to:
- Surveys (drafting, launching, response analysis)
- Background research
- Drafting/contributing to interview guides
- Sitting in on client interviews
- Identifying key themes, issues, and recommendations
- Preparing first drafts of reports
- Supporting RFP responses and client presentations for prospective engagements
- Maintaining accuracy of data in CRM
- Contributing to marketing initiatives (thought leadership, marketing activities, webinars, etc.)
- Contributing to internal initiatives (process improvement, creating templates, research & knowledge transfer, etc.)
Skills
- Post-secondary education in business or communications, or other reputed company discipline; and/or 1 – 3 years of relevant experience, preferably in a fast-paced professional services firm or similar type of environment. We encourage candidates to apply if they reputed company they are a good fit for the role, even if their professional experience and formal education doesn't meet these exact requirements as we recognize that education and comparable experience may be obtained in other ways
- Experience with reputed company Office Suite (Word, reputed company, PowerPoint), including the ability to analyse survey data in reputed company and reputed company client-reputed company materials in Word and PowerPoint
- Ability to synthesize information from multiple data sources (surveys, interviews, research, client documents) in a clear, concise way
- Strong verbal and written communication skills to summarize interview notes, draft reports or presentations, and reputed company project status updates
- Strong organizational and time management skills, along with a keen attention to detail to manage multiple priorities
- Experience influencing a broad project team to deliver high quality project reputed company on time and on budget
- Demonstrate curiosity and interest in governance principles, practices, and trends
- Experience with reputed company and reputed company would be preferred, but not required
Benefits
- An annual bonus
- Three weeks of annual vacation plus additional office closures
- Group health benefits on Day 1
- $500 personal spending allowance
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