Equity Compensation Plan Outsourcing Services
Equity awards are a vital component in rewarding and retaining your high-caliber employees, and in creating an accountability link between your executives and your shareholders. To support your business needs, Computershare services a full range of stock option and equity compensation plans including:- Non-qualified stock options
- Incentive stock options
- Stock appreciation rights
- Restricted stock awards
- Performance shares
- Bonus shares
- Long term incentive plans
Our Solution Offering
When you partner with Computershare for your stock plan administration,you will benefit from expert administrative services with end-to-end support.
Our comprehensive offering includes:
- Complete plan processing and account maintenance
- Comprehensive financial reporting, including:
- Choice of option valuation models
- Calculation and reporting of share plan expense
- Weighted options outstanding and earnings per share calculations
- Regulatory disclosure summaries
- Expert client service from trained financial professionals
Global Capabilities
As a leading global provider of stock plan administration, Computershare understands the impact of differences in geography, language, currency and regulatory environments on your optionees. Our global infrastructure allows us to support:- Country-specific tax withholding
- Multi-currency payment system
- Multi-lingual participant support and communications capabilities
Computershare understands the meticulous execution needed to administer an equity awards plan as well as the importance of providing quality service to your optionees.
We ensure that these key members of your team receive the best participant service the industry has to offer:
- Specialized participant service representatives — A team of licensed professionals within our communications center is dedicated to handling your employees’ stock option questions and transactions.
- Key officer services — Key benefits to our offering include a separate, specially-trained team dedicated to handling the complex needs of your senior executives, as well as a dedicated telephone line and support team that responds to inquires and assists with transactions and form filings.
- Convenient reporting — Your optionees receive a confirmation of every transaction, tax reporting, and regular account statements at whatever frequency you determine.
- Online statements — You can offer your optionees the ability to view
statements online.
Flexible Participant Services
Our self-service solutions — through the Web and interactive voice response system — enable participants to manage their plan accounts around the clock, with direct
access to:
- Online grant delivery and acceptance
- Award information
- Electronic filing of Form W-8 BEN or Form W-9
- Modeling exercise scenarios
- Real time exercise and sale functionality
- Online statements
- Complimentary access to Knowledge Center, an online financial tool provided by myStockOptions.com®
- Multi-lingual Web capabilities
In addition, if plan participants require assistance they can contact our participant service representatives from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Eastern Time, any day the New York Stock Exchange is open.
