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Compensation Advisory Services

Need help planning or executing your Compensation plans? Let us guide you. Any organization can move forward with small incremental changes, but building for the future in today’s rapidly evolving environment means taking chances and making insightful decisions.

General Overview of Areas our team can help yours:

Compensation Benchmarking

In addition to answering the question of “how” to pay, our clients need to determine “how much” to pay. Compensation benchmarking provides an external quantitative answer to how much other comparable companies are paying similarly situated positions. With our extensive analytical resources and access to the highest quality compensation databases to performance benchmarking for our clients, including the following actions:

Peer group development and survey evaluation
Position matching
Total compensation benchmarking
Equity incentive and valuation methodologies
Short- and long-term incentive plan design comparisons

Performance Alignment

Investors expect pay to closely reflect company performance. We help companies assess the pay and performance alignment of their compensation programs and to design pay arrangements that create strong alignment between performance and pay outcomes. Our alignment services include:
Performance metric evaluation and selection
Application in short- and long-term incentives
Degree of stretch and range around target performance levels
Realized compensation assessments

Executive Compensation

With years of experience, our staff has the capabilities and expertise to take your business to the next level.

Executive Compensation and Analysis

Our technical resources regularly perform:

Custom peer group selection and performance/pay analysis
External market studies and job pricings
Competitive market valuations for salary, bonus, long-term incentives, benefits and perquisites.
Pay and performance alignment
Best practice and emerging trends research
Interactive modeling of proposed compensation programs and business strategy

Technical Support Services
Other technical support we provide clients includes:

Special program design, implementation and communications
Long-term incentive plan design and shareholder approval
Annual and long-term metrics selection , hurdle selection, and modeling
Pay element mix selection to ensure consistency with total rewards strategy
Company differentiator identification and the success factors for inclusion in reward plans
Review of checks and balances to reward structure, goal setting and pay-out curves
Annual risk assessment of compensation programs, metrics, governance practices and outcomes

At Walters Comp Consulting, we combine our insights and skills to transform your processes and strategies, and in turn, your company. We’re proud to help shape and improve how our clients structure and manage their business.

Program Design

Compensation and benefit programs should support value creation while attracting and retaining the critical talent you need to execute your business strategy. We examine what organizations are doing to stay relevant and competitive in this fast-paced world, and which ones are doing it best. We then strategize using smart tools and global resources in order to understand the implications of every choice our clients can make. Walters Comp Consulting begins each client relationship by ensuring we have a solid understanding of your business objectives and identifying how your organization may be unique. To this business understanding we bring our deep knowledge of effective compensation design, experience with clients and extensive data on current market practices and trends. Our program design work includes:

Peer group development
Compensation survey evaluation
Position matching
Comparison of all pay elements, including base salary, target bonus and long-term incentives
Review of long-term incentive valuation methodologies
Plan design comparisons, including short-term and long-term incentives, stock ownership guidelines, perquisites, etc

Get in touch to learn more about how this service can help you.

M&A Advisory Services

Disruption and change are here to stay. Intense competition, ever-increasing shareholder expectations and digital innovations are driving leaders to rethink strategy. The result is an urgent need to adapt that in turn fuels increased inorganic transformation through deals.

At the same time, increasing complexity and cross-border dynamics make it difficult to realize value in M&A strategies. Speed becomes paramount to success.

Prioritizing People Risks

The success of an acquisition increasingly depends on prioritizing people risk. Our research shows that 60% of deals fail due to workforce issues. Organizations need to address this risk at the initiation of any acquisition process — at target identification and during due diligence — and with the same strategic focus that goes into analyzing the financial risks.

Strategy and Rreadiness

Anticipate the spectrum of people risks and strategies to address them given your strategic goals.