Company Secretary

Our client is the leader in next-generation solutions for complex legal work at scale. Clients turn to them for real solutions to big problems, ranging from one-off regulatory projects to long-term managed services. Our client leverages modernized processes, smart resourcing constructs, and the best of legal technology to help clients overcome the limitations of the traditional in-house and law firm models.

They are comprised of more than 500 lawyers, legal specialists, technologists, and process consultants across Europe and North America.

THE ROLE:

We’re looking for a company secretary to work alongside a team of like-minded high-performing individuals, working on engagements for large Global clients.

This is a permanent, full time opportunity to join the Belfast team dedicated to providing support to clients. As a member of the team, you’ll be responsible for providing company secretarial support with direct access to the client’s senior management. The role may encompass the opportunity to take on, among other things, the following key responsibilities:

• Board related matters: These include organising board and board committee meetings; collating board materials; attending meetings and taking minutes; monitoring action items.
• Governance responsibilities: These include promoting and driving consistent standards of legal entity governance and oversight in accordance with internal client models and standards; providing directors, senior management and legal entities with support and training across corporate governance matters, including in relation to relevant laws and regulations, governance practices and legal entity management; and assisting as appropriate with local, regional and global regulatory and governance projects.
• Legal entity related matters: These include maintaining corporate records and certifications; support on the application of corporate procedures and record retention as relates to governance matters and internal procedures; oversight of Blueprint to ensure data is maintained by all users to facilitate regulatory reporting; creation and maintenance of investment structure charts for company secretarial and regulatory support; regular legal entity reporting and analysis to senior management on entity population.
• Compliance and Regulatory matters: These include dealing with Compliance, KYC and AML requests.

This is a very exciting and unique opportunity to build a career locally but operate globally. If you believe in being a team player, can collaborate and communicate well with technical and non-technical audiences while bringing a result-driven, focused, high energy, confident, curious, quirky, and most of all fun sense of self, then this is the place for you

The Person:

You are adaptable, authentic, accountable, and values-driven. You’re a team player who exhibits personal leadership and leaves things better than you found them. We’re looking for someone who always gives their best and inspires others to do the same.

In addition to the above, here are the required skills, knowledge, capabilities, and education for this role:

Essential Criteria

• ICSA Qualification or MSc Management & Corporate graduate
• Excellent attention to detail
• Regular client-facing experience
• Good commercial awareness, working directly with business managers
• Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel
• Legally eligible to work in the United Kingdom

Desirable Criteria

• 6 months company secretarial or Compliance/Regulatory experience
• Familiarity with Blueprint Company Secretarial Software
• Experience working within the financial services sector
• Knowledge of companies legislation outside of the UK
• Exposure to Pan-European investment structures
• Knowledge of US regulatory environment.

Next Steps:
Please submit your application or speak to a specialist consultant from the Abacus team on 0044 (0) 28 9031 3157 for a confidential discussion. We aim to respond to all inquiries within 4 business hours.
The team at Abacus manages a range of permanent and contract positions throughout Northern Ireland, the UK and the Republic of Ireland. If you are experienced and/or professionally qualified we can support your job search.
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