Reward Services: Designing effective employee share schemes

Companies face the challenge of attracting qualified staff, retaining them in the long term and, at the same time, ensuring that remuneration is cost-effective. Employee share schemes can be an effective tool in this regard: they create incentives, strengthen loyalty to the company and link individual performance to the company’s success.

With our Reward Team, we support you in setting up remuneration and share scheme programmes that are efficient, transparent and future-proof. The aim: to reduce administrative complexity, establish clear governance structures, enhance transparency and improve the employee experience. To achieve this, we combine tax, legal, business and organisational aspects into a holistic solution.

• Strategy & Design: Development and structuring of bespoke remuneration and share ownership schemes – from cash remuneration to share-based and variable models
• Analysis & Optimisation: Evaluation and further development of existing programmes with regard to target achievement, market conformity and incentive effect
• Tax & Legal: Tax and legal review, including risk analysis, country-specific assessment and process design
• Implementation & Operations: Support with accounting, payroll and the preparation of tax and legal information tailored to specific target groups for your employees
• Administration & Compliance: Efficient organisation of administration and ongoing support, including compliance monitoring – particularly in an international context
• Digital solutions: Use of the Global Equity Tracker for the global management of your programmes, complemented by AI-powered communication, automated workflows and digital training formats