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:
- Implement departmental agreed advice/guidance to directors both collectively and individually on their statutory and fiduciary duties, responsibilities and powers.
- Provides legal transactional governance advice to assigned entities and trusts.
- Provide input into all corporate governance initiatives, to ensure alignment with the Group.
- 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.
- 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.
- Assists the Board with the interaction/ communication with regulatory bodies, with respect to matters affecting the Board, such as governance requirements.
- Advises the Board with interpretation, advice and application of legal and regulatory requirements across assigned entities and trusts.
- Ensures that the Board implements best practice corporate governance requirements in line with the Group Governance Framework (GGF), when making decisions.
- Implementation of the GGF, to ensure efficiencies and drive down the overall cost of Corporate Governance.
- Ensures compliance with the Companies Act and any other applicable legislation in assigned entities and trusts.
- Responsible for administration relating to Board meetings, filing of documents and preparing Board Charters and Terms of Reference.
- 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.
- Accountable for GGF assessment/attestation, application and reporting across assigned entities and trusts.
Required Education & Experience:
- Chartered Governance Institute Qualification will be advantageous
- At least 3 to 5 years’ experience in a corporate secretarial environment, with Financial Services related experience being an advantage
- Strong knowledge of statutory and regulatory requirements as per legislature.
- Board and board committee, executive /management committee administration experience required.
- LLB Degree
- Corporate Governance, Drafting Documents, Legal Regulatory Compliance, Stakeholder Relationships, Statutory Requirements