Rewarding your team

To help attract, retain and incentivise their teams, many clients consider employee share options (ESO). Equity.

If you’d like to talk it over, you’ll find us well-versed in the Share Option conversations and prepared to lend you our expertise.

Share Options: EMI & Others

When you feel it’s right to do so, we can help you plan, allocate and schedule the share options for your business.

Company Valuation is the First Step

Our experience in helping get the right valuations for our clients will be useful.

EMI Options

Tax-advantaged Incentives are available through the Enterprise Management Incentive (EMI Options)

Qualifying Criteria and Legal Compliance

We have some requirements to meet, and we can walk through these with you. Be in a “qualifying trade”, be an independent company and not part of a group, not over £30 Million in assets, and have fewer than 250 full-time employees, amongst other details.

We can make sure everyone qualifies on your behalf.

Unapproved EMI Share Option Schemes

If companies or employees don’t qualify for EMI, it’s still possible but will be less tax-advantaged.

  • Fully Customised Scheme
  • Board resolutions
  • Paperwork, agreements and certificates
  • Filing if necessary

Share Options: EMI & Others

When you feel it’s right to do so, we can help you plan, allocate and schedule the share options for your business.

Talk to an expert

The War for Talent is Real

Share Options are a powerful tool. Everyone wants the best talent, and talent wants to be rewarded for helping the business grow significantly.

Certain hires are central to the business.

Whether it be the sales and business development function or the CTO and developer staff that are critical to your tech business, we can help with board-level decision support.

When it was a candidate’s market, you may have been used to matching what is available elsewhere. Change is the only constant, but the search for the best hires will usually involve some share options discussion and thought. Planning is essential if you don’t want to impact the long-term financial position with short-term decisions.

At the same time, the right person can make a huge difference to the company.

In our first year working with Next Level Business we grew our sales 10 fold from the previous year. Shortly after this they helped us succeed in winning investment in the famous Dragons Den and since then we have gone on to become a multi-million pound turnover business operating in over 10 countries. I can safely say that we wouldn’t have been as successful as we have been without our relationship with Next Level Business who have added a significant amount of value to our business.

Andy Jeffries
Dock & Bay, Co-Founder

Experienced CFO Services

Share Options Schemes are a significant decision, and having an experienced tech CFO on your side can help you achieve clarity and confidence to carry it through.

We manage many share option plans, so don’t hesitate to connect and get the benefit of having an external CFO partner on tap.

What makes us
different?

We are your entire finance department—bookkeeping, specialists, software, and processes— at a fraction of the cost of building a dedicated department.

Industry Experts

Our finance and accounting experts are focused on helping you manage growth and reach your goals. Get a dedicated finance function with expertise in your industry.

We Scale

Our finance function and level of support grow with your business needs. Whether just starting out or already international, you’ll find us competitive for the services our clients find invaluable.

Strategy

Our finance experts offer support from operations to strategy. We bring our experience from large public companies to ambitious, high-potential, high-growth businesses like yours.

Cohesion

We plan for the complexities of internationalisation, fundraising and managing growth. Our consistency brings clarity and speed to decision-making for you.

Tech Provided

Our team designs and operates high-tech finance functions for many growing businesses. Draw on our accumulated experience and achieve best practices and efficiency.