Company Secretary

Your new company
This company is a world-leading global bank. They have approximately 200 million customer accounts and a presence in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions worldwide. They provide consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.

Your new role
This role would suit a candidate with previous Company Secretarial and management experience and will be vital in supporting the Company Secretarial Team in the smooth running of the team while also carrying out a range of governance related work in supporting the organisations' regulated and unregulated legal entities.A typical day in the role would involve assisting the Company Secretarial team in capacity and resource planning, training and performance management and acting as a point of escalation for junior team members. The role would also involve balancing a portfolio of typical Board/Committee governance and legal entity management activities such as meeting administration, signatory and Power of Attorney management, company filings and responding to regulatory or audit information requests.
A successful candidate working within our busy but valued team will gain exposure to working with both our senior Executives and Non-Executive Board members. The candidate would gain experience of both regulated legal entity governance and management of non-regulated entities. The candidate will have the opportunity to work on a full spectrum of projects from regulatory change implementation to entity liquidations and incorporations. The Company Secretarial team have interactions with almost every business, product and function, giving a ‘birds' eye view’ of the firm.

What you'll need to succeed

• Previous Company secretarial experience is essential.
• Formal or informal management experience would be desirable.
• Experience in financial services in either in-house or experience working with financial services clients, would be an advantage.
• Minute-taking skills are essential.
• Meeting management skills are essential.
• Attention to detail
• Works well as part of a multi-jurisdictional team and the ability to travel if required
• Works well under pressure
• “No surprises” approach to communicating issues
• Strong influencing skills
• Holding chartered status from the Governance Institute (Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators - ICSA) would be an advantage.

What you'll get in return

• Excellent hourly rate
• Hybrid role
• Opportunity to travel with work

What you need to do now
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