Position Summary:
This Cape Town based role delivers secretarial services as per legislative requirements. The Company Secretary provides advice and support to Boards on governance matters and ensuring compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements.
Key Responsibilities:
- Implementation of the GGF, to ensure efficiencies and drive down the overall cost of Corporate Governance.
- Provides general support – maintenance of databases of information on directors and subsidiary companies, signing powers, etc.
- Ensures compliance with the Companies Act and any other applicable legislation in assigned entities and trusts.
- Building professional relationships with key stakeholders within the business.
- Ensure that all group secretariat compliance matters are managed, addressed and presented and tabled at subsidiary Board’s in accordance with the compliance calendar applicable to subsidiaries.
- Provides oversight and monitoring of corporate governance and escalates Group wide issues.
- Responsible for providing efficient and effective Company Secretarial services to the Board/Trustees and if so required, Committees as assigned.
- Implement departmental agreed advice/guidance to directors both collectively and individually on their statutory and fiduciary duties, responsibilities and powers.
- Assists in driving governance initiatives to underpin the vision of Old Mutual being a responsible business.
- Responsible for AGM administration across assigned entities and trusts.
- Accountable for GGF assessment/attestation, application and reporting across assigned entities and trusts.
- Responsible for administration relating to Board meetings, filing of documents and preparing Board Charters and Terms of Reference.
- Assists the Board with the interaction/ communication with regulatory bodies, with respect to matters affecting the Board, such as governance requirements.
- Implement in line with departmental agreed interpretation of the Companies Act and best practice corporate governance (including adherence to regulatory governance requirements) to all directors and members of management, aligned to Group Governance
- Framework (GGF) implementation and annual assessment.
- Keeps Company registers up to date.
- Ensures that the Board implements best practice corporate governance requirements in line with the Group Governance Framework (GGF), when making decisions.
- Advises the Board with interpretation, advice and application of legal and regulatory requirements across assigned entities and trusts.
- Organizes and administers the smooth running of meetings, producing accurate minutes and resolutions.
- Implement in line with departmental agreed interpretation of Company Secretarial processes through Agendas, Board composition, number of meetings held to address compliance matters, aligned to GGF implementation and annual assessment.
- Administers the Group’s subsidiary companies’ statutory records, registers and the lodgment of necessary returns in compliance with statutory requirements.
- Provide input into all corporate governance initiatives, to ensure alignment with the Group.
Required Education & Experience:
- Bachelor Of Laws (LLB) (Required)
- LLB Degree.
- At least 5 to 7 years’ experience in a corporate secretarial environment, with Financial Services related experience being an advantage.
- Chartered Governance Institute Qualification will be advantageous.
- Strong knowledge of statutory and regulatory requirements as per legislature.
- Corporate Governance, Legal Practices, Regulatory Requirements, Stakeholder Relationships