Compensation Specialist recruitment
Compensation Specialist
Executive Compensation sits within the wider Compensation, Benefits and Payroll department which in turn sits within the Human Resources function within Credit Suisse.
Executive Compensation team is a global structure with teams in New York and Singapore looking after the Americas and APAC areas respectively. The London team however undertake a number of processes globally and have extensive involvement in the year end discretionary variable incentive award process.
The team is involved in planning, implementation and settlement of all deferred compensation awards.
Our London based Executive Compensation Team is looking for an Executive Compensation Specialist to join the team to work as a subject matter expect within the areas of deferred compensation planning and administration.
The role encompasses the design, implementation, granted, sourcing, taxing and settling the awards granted under the Credit Suisse Group AG Master Share Plan annually and throughout the year. We currently have around 12,000 employees globally across at least 50 countries who participate in the Share Plan and have both Share based and Deferred Cash based awards.
These awards are settled on either a monthly, quarterly or annual basis and during settlement, interaction with a number of stakeholders will take place such as Deferred Compensation Accounting, Corporate Tax, Employees, Human Resources, Legal, Treasury.
Credit Suisse
As one of the world's leading financial services groups, Credit Suisse provides its clients with investment banking, private banking and asset management services worldwide. Founded in 1856, Credit Suisse has a long tradition of meeting the complex financial needs of a wide range of clients, offering advisory services, comprehensive solutions and innovative products to companies, institutional clients and high-net-worth private clients globally. The Credit Suisse Group is active in over 50 countries and employs approximately 50,000 people. Further information can be found at credit-suisse.com.
Your skills and qualifications will ideally include:
• Degree Standard essential.
• Preference for either - recently qualified accountant with training in either Big 4, Compensation experience, experience in dealing with data sets.
• Good to excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications particularly Excel.
• Ability to analyse large amounts of data comfortably building in checks and balances.
• Ability to identify risks and mitigate the occurrence
• Ability to develop relationships with internal clients to understand and address their needs.
• Ability to plan and organise the works so that it is efficent and effective and allows service to be delivered promptly and reliably.
• Proactivness - identify opportunities and develop new ideas that will lead to improvements.
• Flexibility - adapt/change behaviour or plans to better achieve the target/objective at that point in time.
• Ability to understand and anticipate the consequences of decisions taken for other departments/people in both the long and short term.
• Set high targets for both individual and team performance.
• Hold a clear appreciation of strengths and limitations and always seek guidance and advice where appropriate to accomplish tasks and perform the role in an effective and efficient way.
• Play an integral role within the structure and success of the team whilst also being able to work in silo on processes and tasks.
• Take full ownership and responsibility of tasks assigned.
Your main responsibilities will involve:
Successful candiate within the first year will look to be involved in a number of the following processes:
• Dividend Equivalent Process
• Dual Contractor Process
• Share Settlement Process
• Preparation of calculations on deferred compensation buyouts
• Advice on terminations along with preparation of necessary documentation
• Deferred Compensation Reporting
• Partner Asset Facility Award Administration
• Discretionary Variable Incentive Award - Year End Related processes.
What we will be looking for in you:
- Challenge the status quo and bring new ideas to drive process improvements.
- Ability to drill into and resolve complex problems and issues
- Strong written and oral communication skills and be able to choose appropriate communication media for the subject and target audience
- Outstanding organisational abilities it takes to continuously deliver high quality work, even in high pressure situations.
Contact:
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Cultural diversity is essential to our success. As such, we employ people from more than 100 countries. Credit Suisse empowers employees to work openly and respectfully with each other and with clients, ultimately striving to deliver superior results while offering initiatives and programs to assist employees achieve a healthy work-life balance.
Credit Suisse is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions on the basis of any protected category.
To the extent permitted or required by applicable law, a candidate who is offered employment will be subject to a criminal record check and other background checks before the appointment is confirmed.