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Attract Top Talent
An employee share plan is a compelling differentiator in your total reward package — helping you attract high-calibre professionals who are choosing between competing offers.
Employee Financial Wellness
Help your employees build real, long-term wealth — directly in company shares, registered in their own name. Shares Saver is Nigeria's corporate employee investment platform: a complete share ownership benefit for NGX-listed companies that drives retention, engagement, and financial wellness.
Nigerian companies face an increasingly competitive market for skilled talent. Salary increases have diminishing returns as a retention tool — once an employee is at market rate, further increases alone rarely prevent them from leaving. What increasingly differentiated employers are offering instead is a compelling total reward package that includes long-term financial benefits.
Employee share ownership is one of the most powerful of these benefits. Unlike a cash bonus — which is spent and forgotten — a growing shareholding in the company creates a lasting, visible financial connection between the employee and the business. Employees can watch their wealth grow in their Shares Saver dashboard month by month, year by year.
Shares Saver provides the technology platform and full administration service to make this benefit a reality for your company — at scale, compliantly, and without placing an operational burden on your HR or finance team.
An employee share plan is a compelling differentiator in your total reward package — helping you attract high-calibre professionals who are choosing between competing offers.
Vesting schedules create a golden handcuff effect. Employees with unvested shares have a direct financial incentive to stay with the company until their shares vest.
When employees own shares, their interests align with those of other shareholders. They care about the company's long-term performance — because it directly affects their personal wealth.
Monthly payroll deduction investing helps employees build long-term wealth through a disciplined, automatic process — a genuine financial wellness benefit that cash bonuses cannot replicate.
Unlike some executive equity schemes, Shares Saver's platform can include all employees — from senior management to entry-level staff — in the company's ownership story.
Your HR team gets clear analytics on participation, investment levels, and scheme engagement — enabling data-driven decisions about your financial wellness strategy.
Shares Saver integrates with your HR and payroll processes to deliver a seamless employee share investment experience — for your company and for every participating employee.
Your HR team sets the scheme parameters — eligibility, deduction limits, vesting rules. Shares Saver handles everything else: monthly deduction processing, share purchase or allotment, CSCS registration, employee onboarding, dividend administration, leaver handling, and compliance reporting.
Your employees access their own Shares Saver portal to view their shareholding, vesting schedule, dividend history, and ownership documentation — in real time, from any device.
HR & Payroll Integration
Monthly deduction instructions coordinated with your payroll team
CSCS Direct Registration
Every employee owns shares in their own name — a real, registered shareholder
Employee Self-Service Portal
Each employee manages their account, views holdings, and downloads documentation
Automated Compliance Reporting
SEC Nigeria, NGX, and FIRS reporting produced automatically by the platform
Board & HR Analytics
Participation rates, scheme cost, dilution impact, and retention analytics for leadership
Listed companies seeking to implement or modernise a competitive employee share ownership benefit as part of their total reward strategy.
HR leaders responsible for employee benefits, compensation strategy, and talent retention — looking for a scalable, compliant financial wellness platform.
Reward specialists designing a share benefit that is meaningful to employees and administratively straightforward to manage.
Finance leaders who want accurate, audit-ready reporting on the cost, dilution impact, and tax implications of their employee share investment scheme.
A corporate employee investment platform is a technology-driven service that enables companies to offer structured investment opportunities — typically company shares — to their employees as part of their total reward and financial wellness offering. Shares Saver provides this platform for Nigerian listed companies, handling everything from share allocation and CSCS registration through to employee dashboards and compliance reporting.
Employees who own shares in their employer company have a direct financial stake in its success. This creates a deeper alignment between employee effort and company performance — employees who know they benefit personally from growth and dividend payments are more motivated to stay and contribute. Studies consistently show that equity-linked benefits improve long-term staff retention, particularly for high-performers.
Yes. As competition for skilled employees intensifies — particularly in sectors like banking, telecoms, oil and gas, and financial services — Nigerian employers are moving beyond salary-only compensation to offer more holistic financial wellness benefits. Employee share plans are one of the most valued of these benefits, offering long-term wealth creation that cash bonuses cannot replicate.
Shares Saver is the only Nigerian platform that registers each employee's shares directly in their own name through the CSCS — rather than holding them in a pooled or nominee account. This makes the ownership real, transparent, and meaningful. Every employee is a named, registered shareholder entitled to dividends and AGM voting rights.
Yes. Shares Saver's platform is fully digital, allowing employees across Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Kano, or any other location in Nigeria to enrol, view their shareholding, and access their account from any device. This makes it practical for large companies with distributed workforces.
Shares Saver provides your HR team with participation analytics — including enrolment rates by department, average monthly investment, cumulative shareholding growth, and year-on-year participation trends. Many companies also survey employees annually on their perception of the scheme as a benefit. Anecdotally, companies with active employee share schemes report lower voluntary turnover rates among participating employees.
Request a consultation with Shares Saver to design and launch a corporate employee investment scheme for your company — a benefit your competitors probably don't yet offer.