Senior Equity Reward Manager

McKellar Consulting are working in partnership with a UK-wide Tax consultancy who have grown over more than a decade to be based in several cities across the UK including Glasgow, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Nottingham, Bristol and London. Their success has come through their specialism of tax and through the people they have attracted and retained at the firm.

The company:

This is an award-winning firm who work with an impressive client base that includes very interesting, complex and technical tax work. You will work with clients who are OMB's, private equity backed, family owned and listed. In addition, the firm has fantastic relationships with the business community from many different facets.

The Role:

The Equity Reward team is looking for a Senior Manager to join the team due to the continued growth of the firm and the growing service line, based in any of their UK offices.

The role will be to support a broad range of clients (OMB, private equity backed, family owned and listed) to recruit, retain and incentivise their employees, from executive level to the wider employee group.

Experience:

• A minimum of six years' experience in an equity reward/ share plans & incentives role.
• An in-depth knowledge of EMI and CSOP, plus growth shares, ratchet shares, freezer shares, joint interests and nil paid arrangements.
• Knowledge of the associated reward tax implications of the above and related areas in employment taxes and capital gains tax at all points of the incentive plan lifecycle i.e. implementation, secondary awards, reset, pre-transaction and exit.
• Experience performing due diligence from an employment related securities perspective in a senior review role.
• An awareness of wider issues that are associated with equity reward i.e. tax valuation, accounting, company law and employment law.
• Proven experience in client handling and project management.
• Experience in producing an exceptional standard of work for clients.
• An ability to work under pressure from clients or transaction timeframes, whilst maintaining integrity and quality.
• An approach to projects that involves fully briefing team members on the client's business and objectives, supervising, providing 'on the job' training and taking responsibility for the project completion timeframe.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Relevant professional qualification, for example, ATT, CTA, ACA, or Solicitor.

Remuneration and benefits:

Salaries are benchmarked against the 'Big Four' Accountancy firms.

You will also have the opportunity to join our All-Employee Share Reward Scheme which entitles every employee to a share of the firm's profits above a fixed threshold, plus a generous benefits package (including voluntary benefits).

You must have a legal right to work in the UK. No visa sponsorship for this role either.

To apply:

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