Company Secretary

4 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Kennedys Full time
Job Title: Company Secretary

Kennedys is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Company Secretary to join our Risk and Compliance team. As a key member of our team, you will play a crucial role in ensuring corporate governance excellence across multiple jurisdictions and office locations.

About the Role:

The Company Secretary will be responsible for overseeing and ensuring compliance with corporate governance principles and regulations across multiple jurisdictions. This includes providing comprehensive support to the Kennedys Group, including organizing board meetings, preparing minutes, resolutions, deeds of adherence/retirement, and other ancillary documents. The successful candidate will also be responsible for facilitating communication between members, staying abreast of regulatory changes, and ensuring the firm's activities adhere to relevant laws and regulations.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Corporate Governance: Oversee and ensure compliance with corporate governance principles and regulations across multiple jurisdictions.
  • Board Support: Provide comprehensive support to the Kennedys Group, including organizing board meetings, preparing minutes, resolutions, deeds of adherence/retirement, and other ancillary documents.
  • Regulatory Compliance: Stay abreast of regulatory changes and ensure the firm's activities adhere to relevant laws and regulations.
  • Company Policies: Develop and maintain corporate policies and procedures to uphold legal and ethical standards, ensuring alignment with industry best practices.
  • Risk Management: Identify and mitigate legal and regulatory risks that could impact the firm's operations or reputation, and implement effective risk management strategies.
  • Corporate Records Management: Maintain accurate and up-to-date corporate records via Diligent, including appointments, partner details, compliance dates, statutory registers, and other legal documents.
  • Legal Compliance: Collaborate with regulatory bodies, the SRA, and CILEX to ensure the firm's activities comply with relevant laws, regulations, and industry standards.
  • Corporate Secretarial Services: Oversee all aspects of corporate secretarial services, including entity formation, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate restructuring activities.
  • Continuous Improvement: Continuously evaluate and enhance corporate governance practices and processes to adapt to changing business needs and regulatory requirements.
  • Training and Education: Provide training to partners, directors, and senior management and employees regarding the Group's obligation to corporate governance, compliance, and ethical standards to promote a culture of integrity and accountability.
  • Administration: Update and maintain disclaimers, annual corporate governance calendars, and the group structure chart to reflect recent organizational changes.
Requirements:
  • ICSA qualified
  • 5+ years' company secretarial experience
  • Experience of partnerships and other entity types
  • Proven track record of serving as a Company Secretary in a complex corporate environment, preferably within a multinational organization or large law firm
  • Strong communication skills with the confidence to work with stakeholders at all levels, particularly at partner level
  • Excellent stakeholder relationships and proven ability to influence
  • Proactive self-starter who is able to work on their own initiative with minimal supervision
About Kennedys:

Kennedys is a global law firm with expertise in dispute resolution and advisory services. With over 2,500 people worldwide across 45 offices in the UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific, and America, we have some of the most respected legal minds in their field.

We're a fresh-thinking firm, and we're not afraid to bring challenging new perspectives to the table way beyond the traditional realm of legal services. We empower our clients with a diverse range of ideas, tools, and technology to make their lives easier, as well as delivering exceptional results, every time.

We welcome high-performing lawyers, business services professionals, secretaries, graduates, and apprentices to join our rapidly expanding global firm. Whatever your role at Kennedys, you'll be involved in exciting and stimulating work, where your input will make a difference.

Our culture and values form a big part of who we are and we take them seriously. We make a difference by being approachable, straightforward, supportive, and distinctive. Our values are at the core of who we are and what make us a great firm to work with and for.

The Firm recognises the value of investing in our people's development and believes our culture and values contribute to the quality of our work and of our client relationships. With a culture of on-the-job and experiential learning, peer-to-peer learning, mentoring, resources, and tools that enable you to drive your career, we can support your development in your current and future roles.

We strive to celebrate empower our people and ensure everyone can bring their authentic selves to work. We've created a culture based on client service, professional excellence, hard work, and trust, where diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) is a key priority. We recognise that many of our people want to work for an employer that is aligned to their values, which is why we are building an inclusive culture, decarbonising our operations, and supporting our people to thrive at work.

Kennedys is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. We expect all employees to be aware of and comply with all relevant policies and procedures within their jurisdiction, including those relating to Information Security, Data Protection, and Quality Management, refer any breach promptly to Risk & Compliance, and to complete all mandatory training when requested.

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