Capabilities

Zahll Executive offers specialized advisory services in executive compensation, built on years of experience advising owners, boards, and executives in various business situations - spanning growth scenarios, reconstruction activities and exit events.

Areas of expertise

Executive remuneration

Advising boards and executives on determining attractive and market aligned remuneration packages for executive teams, or when onboarding a new executive team member.

Combining market insights with market data at organizational levels, where detailed benchmarks are rarely available or comparable.

Why work with Zahll Executive

Strong reward experience, combined with extensive understanding of business challenges and market practice for executive levels.

Multinational experience with focus on aligning executive remuneration with company needs and shareholder interests.

Incentive design and structures

Advising owners, boards and executive levels on the choice of incentive vehicles appropriate for different business situations.

Facilitating a coordinated process with finance, tax and legal advisors.

Design and implementation of short-term and long-term incentives, e.g. cash or equity-driven solutions, carry and promote programs, or virtual instruments.

Why work with Zahll Executive

The experience and ability to understand the business situation and to apply this in the design of incentive plans, thus providing a customized fit for purpose solution.

This unique design process includes relevant considerations on legal, tax and financial aspects.

Remuneration strategy and policy

Development of remuneration strategy based on selected reward principles that serve as its foundation.

Translating the strategy into a comprehensive remuneration policy, incorporating relevant governance as well as legal and regulatory requirements.

Why work with Zahll Executive

Expertise rooted in practical, hands-on experience in strategy development.

An approach that aligns and reflects business and people priorities with establishing a suitable governance structure.

RemCo and Board advisory

Acting as Board representative in the Remuneration Committee (RemCo) or serving as an independent advisor to RemCo for facilitating relevant discussions.

Advisory to the CHRO on RemCo topics as pay spend, incentive reviews, equal pay topics, or external requirements e.g., financial regulation (CRD and AIFMD).

Why work with Zahll Executive

Strong experience as RemCo chair, independent advisor, and as content provider and meeting facilitator from the company's side.

Hands-on experience with reporting and people analytics on pay topics to RemCo, Board or external stakeholders.

Remuneration compliance

Advisory and guidance on remuneration related compliance topics and reporting requirements.

Acting as facilitator on internal and external remuneration reporting, including annual reporting and specific topics e.g., equal pay, pay transparency, identified staff in financial institutions, etc.

Facilitating interviews with proxy advisors in collaboration with Client.

Why work with Zahll Executive

Unique experience with remuneration reporting in multiple industries and geographies.

Hands-on experience with

interpreting soft law and hard law requirements, board and executive accountabilities, and structuring of HR and financial data to provide the required level and quality of reporting.

Review of incentive structures

Review of existing incentive structures, for annual RemCo assessment or on ad hoc basis, if considering changing incentive structure.

360° review of selected incentive schemes ob behalf of Senior Management and/or the HR organization, including recommendations on what can appropriately be changed or strengthened.

Why work with Zahll Executive

Extensive experience with incentive designs, operations and implementation in various industries across Europe, Asia and US

Combined with insights of market practice, the review is customized and thought-through to cater for the specific situation.

Working with Zahll Executive

Zahll Executive's key strength is applying a end-to-end multidisciplinary approach with the client's specific business needs in focus, in close collaboration with relevant internal functions (HR, finance, business strategy, legal, and tax), and external specialist expertise when needed.