Global Plan Manager

Location: Zurich

In this position, you’ll be based in the Zurich office for a minimum of three days a week, with the flexibility to work from home for some of your working week. Find out more about our flexible work culture at computershare.com/flex

We give you a world of potential

At Equatex we’re global citizens, collaborators, experts and innovators. Our culture is based on an ethos of partnership, and with us you’ll be challenged to work hard, but also be supported to reach your full potential.

Working at Equatex, you’ll find a workplace where trust and mutual understanding are highly valued, and you’ll see that we’re an employer that’s committed to doing the best for employees, clients, business partners, shareholders and our community. Our focus on customer needs drives our innovation mind-set and underlines the quality of our services. We love what we do, and at Equatex, you can too.

A role you will love

As a Global Plan Manager you will be responsible for plan management tasks in the compensation area including administration, execution and maintenance of plan events and resulting transactions for Purchase and Vestings. A further task of the Global Plan Manager is the timing of processes, the close observation of cash flows related to the purchase plans, direct communication with the client, setup of election processes in a timely manner and decision making in the timelines of future share programs. The coordination of the above is done with a close cooperation with internal and external stakeholders.

Main Duties:

As a Global Plan Manager your key tasks will include both plan and process management as a highly critical function for smooth client service delivery in daily business operations.

• End-to-end responsibility for specific client events in the lifecycle of the equity and deferred plan administration as well as day-to-day plan and data maintenance on the administration platform EquatePlus for assigned corporate client relationships and processes
• Main responsibility is providing the Service Delivery for all client which includes participant request via ticket and e-Mail, participant communications and many other processes.
• Ensuring quality of operational and technical services within the Compliance and Risk framework
• Analysing clients’ plans and development of comprehensive solutions in close cooperation with all relevant internal and external stakeholders in order to setup system configuration and underlying processes (under professional supervision and advise of an experienced Senior Global Plan Manager)

· Contribute to various projects assigned by management

• Escalate observed irregularities to direct superiors Cooperate fully during internal and external audits
  

What will you bring to the role

• Have 3 to 5 years working experience in banking mid/back-office or similar function with a financial institution
• Hold a Federal Diploma of Vocational Education and Training in a financial institution (Kaufmann/-frau EFZ Bank, insurance etc.)
• Be able to work well with others - Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with various (virtual) teams and line / functional managers across the organisation
• Be a self-starter with high energy level, working effectively as a team player
• Possess the ability to handle high volume in a fast paced environment is essential
• Have great organizational skills coupled with hand-on pragmatic approach and performance orientation
• Be a great problem solver - maintains strong focus on timelines
• Be flexible and able to adapt to changing environments
• Have an understanding of deferred compensations & benefits and pension schemes (Not essential but advantageous)
• Be committed to contributing towards continuous organisational improvement
• Be proficient in MS Office such as Excel, PowerPoint and Access
• SQL knowledge (Not essential but advantageous)
• Have excellent English - written and verbal communication skills (B2/C1 level and above)
• German - written and/or verbal communication skills are advantageous.