Profile

Caroline Harwood (Client Service Director)

Caroline is one of the directors leading the equity reward practice in Grant Thornton's Employer Solutions team and heading the Employer Solutions team in Severnside. She specialises in equity-based remuneration and incentive planning including share plans with both a UK and an international basis.

Experience

Caroline joined Grant Thornton in August 2007 having previously lead the southern region executive reward and share plans practice for a Big 4 firm.

Caroline has specialised in equity-based remuneration and incentive planning for 14 years after having qualified as a chartered accountant and chartered tax adviser. She has extensive experience of the design, implementation and review of a wide variety of share-base employee incentive plans for her clients which range from fast growing private companies to multinational 'household names'.

Caroline's expertise covers:

• Share and share-based incentive plans
• Employment-related securities issues on transactions
• Due diligence for share plans and shareholder issues
• International stock plan issues
• Cost and risk reduction share plan reviews
• Executive reward
• Employee benefit trusts

Qualifications

• Bsc (Hons)
• ACA - Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
• ATII - Associate of the Chartered Institute of Taxation