Merger & Acquisition Equities Administrator

Kforce is immediately seeking an experienced Merger & Acquisition Equities Administrator for our enterprise networking and cloud solutions customer in Atlanta, GA. Summary: The Stock Administrator will play a key role within the Finance team, responsible for administering stock services to Cisco acquisition employees and shareholders. Key to the success of this team is operations, compliance, customer service and collaboration. The Stock Administrator will contribute to the design of acquisition strategies, acting as a deal lead for acquisition stock transactions. In addition, they will implement acquisition integration plans, as they relate to stock and stock incentives. Duties:

• Review due diligence analysis of target company stock spreadsheet: audit, issue resolution, and recommendations
• Model stock integration plan, including converting target stock and stock incentives to cash and/or stock, and modeling unique stock based incentive and retention mechanisms
• Review and approve vest templates consistent with acquisition terms, and upload outstanding/assumed equity awards into stock management database
• Define and coordinate processes to implement share exchanges and option assumptions
• Present to target company employees' on terms of acquisition and ongoing equity
• Post close responsibilities include managing the process of the delivery of cash and/or stock to target shareholders and employees, monitoring the implementation of the appropriate acquisition integration procedures, managing escrow release process, and addressing ongoing questions/issues pertaining to integration activities
• Calculate and model re-vesting of shares, options and restricted cash, the cash-out of the merger, and process wires
• Identify, recommend and lead implementation of process improvements and productivity enhancements relating to stock acquisition and integration activities
• CEP-designated contractor preferred
• Understand equity programs
• Experience working with RSU, stock options and ESPP using EEO
• Strong excel and analytical skills