Employee Remuneration & Incentives
As your startup grows, it can be challenging to balance available funding with remuneration packages that attract and retain staff.
Employee fringe benefits like ESOPs (Employee Share Option Programs) and ESS (Employee Share Schemes) can be a tax-effective way to offer equity to key employees, while allowing your team to benefit from the growth of your business.
We work closely with you to enhance your startup's total reward packages with equity.
There’s a lot to consider when building out employee share schemes for your startup, all of which our experienced team can help you work through. These include:
- Legal documentation
- Tax and accounting implications
- Business valuation and goals
For startups, there are further considerations around eligibility for the ESS startup concession, IPO timing if planned and any performance targets the business needs to meet. The KPMG High Growth Ventures team can help you work through these, while helping you attract and retain your best and brightest.
Our Employee Remuneration & Incentives Services
Our team has extensive experience assisting businesses with implementing equity and equity-like offerings for listed companies and startups alike. We work with you to design the right scheme for your startup, understand your eligibility for the ESS startup concession, assist with company valuations and suggest performance hurdles.
Incentive structures
Identify or review your incentive structure to ensure it aligns with your startup's interests and goals and those of your employees.
ESS Startup concessions
Assess your eligibility for ESS startup concessions, and assist in recommending the right market valuation option for your company.
Tax implications
Understand the tax implications an ESS will have on your company and also the personnel receiving the ESS interest.
ESS Reporting
Our team can help with the review, preparation and lodgment of your ESS statements and your annual reports.
Meet the team
The KPMG High Growth Ventures team has worked with a range of startups and scale-ups across Australia to implement best-fit employee remuneration and incentive packages. Learn more about their experience below.
Jacqui Tucker
Fabio Carnevali
Sophie Ritchie
Neal Prowse
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