JOB DESCRIPTION
Account Manager - Fornebu, Norway
We're committed to your flexibility and wellbeing. You'll experience this through our supportive approach, continuous learning opportunities, empowerment in your role and the ability to balance work and life. Find out more about our culture of flexible working.
We give you a world of potential
Equatex provides plan administration, accounting and financial reporting of employee and executive share plans services for companies and their employees globally, using our own software. We support clients in the Nordic region and the rest of Europe, Asia-Pacific and North America. With world-class technologies and market leading services, we enable companies to deliver engaging share-based compensation across borders, languages, and currencies. Equatex is part of the Computershare Group and supports clients globally managing over 5 million share plan participants, providing end-to-end solutions from funding instruments to administration, market execution, accounting, and financial reporting. Oslo and Warsaw office manage Nordic clients and is the global financial reporting competence centre for accounting and financial reporting to our clients. Due to our rapid growth, we are searching for candidates to join our team of highly qualified, experienced, and talented share plan experts.
Want more jobs like this?
Get Account Management jobs in Oslo, Norway delivered to your inbox every week.
A role you will love
You will work in a team responsible for providing expertise in administration and/or accounting and financial reporting of share plans. We seek hands-on team members to work directly with our clients, develop and improve our software and services, and there is potential to take over and manage new responsibilities and to excel and develop within the company.
Responsibilities include:
- Working together with team on managing our corporate clients
- Participating in workshops with both clients and prospective clients
- Preparation of IFRS and US GAAP compliant accounting and disclosure reports for clients share-based payment plans using EquatePyramid, our market leading financial reporting software
- Provide expertise in financial reporting (IFRS 2, IAS 12, IAS 33, IAS 19 and USGAAP equivalent)
- Perform administrative tasks on behalf of clients to support their broad-based equity compensation plans including direct contact with client, participants, banks and brokers
- Valuation of instruments by option pricing models and complex Monte Carlo simulations models
- Assist with education and training of clients and internal teams
- Contribute to product development and coordinating input from existing and new clients
Depending on qualifications, interests and requirements, candidates might get involved in other tasks and responsibilities
What will you bring to the role?
You will have a good understanding of work routines and procedures used to support and administer accounting and financial reporting for employee share plans including domain understanding of employee share plans. The role will operate within defined technical and operational procedures, which require proficient knowledge and awareness on how to apply them. Specific employee share plans knowledge for the role will be acquired through on the job training and experience, while the core knowledge of accounting and financial reporting and other basic functional knowledge would be extremely beneficial.
- Bachelor or Master degree in finance, accounting, industrial economics or related education
- Experience from accounting, audit or similar
- Experience with relationship management, business development/ sales or similar
- Recent graduates with strong interest in the field are encouraged to apply
- Strong customer service skills and the ability to develop strong working relationships
- High motivation and the ability to work both independently and as part of a team
- Strong operational, analytical and process understanding
- Excellent Excel knowledge
- Accuracy and attention to detail
- Fluent in English, oral and written
- Knowledge of share plans would be an advantage
- Knowledge of IFRS 2, IAS 12, IAS 33 or IAS 19 and/or related USGAAP standards would be an advantage
#LI-KT1
#LI-Hybrid
ABOUT US
We're experts in managing compensation plans for global businesses. We partner with some of the world's leading companies, delivering employee incentive schemes across borders, languages, and currencies.
Equatex is part of the Computershare group, a world leader in financial administration with over 12,000 employees across 22 different countries. At Computershare, it's more than just a job, our open and inclusive culture means that we will help you to grow, to move forward and make the most of the world of opportunities we have available. With infinite possibilities, we could take you anywhere.