Assistant Company Secretarial Manager EE – Candidate (No White males)
Main purpose
A leading retail group is looking for a EE candidate to manage their company secretarial department to support the board’s requirements and ensure that the required corporate governance processes are in place.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage an effective board and committee meeting process, including agendas, collation of board papers, distribution and preparation of minutes.
- Delegation of authorities and resolutions
o Ensure that senior management in the business understand and comply with the relevant terms of the delegation of authority.
o Ensure that resolutions, required by the delegation of authority, are appropriately prepared to reflect the authority required in terms of law, the nature of the transaction and our required governance processes.
- Development and implementation of appropriate company governance policies which may be required including, but not limited to, insider trading, price sensitive information and external audit independence.
- Compliance with JSE requirements
o Having expert knowledge of the JSE Listings Requirements, to ensure full compliance thereto. This includes compliance to required company announcements, periodical returns, JSE transaction approvals, director obligations, closed periods and general JSE requirements.
- Integrated report and Annual General Meeting
o Compile and produce the Governance component of the integrated report.
o Prepare notices for the AGM and execute effective planning of the AGM.
o Facilitate effective regulatory communications with share-owners.
- Trust governance
o Ensure governance arrangements for the share schemes are defined and complied with.
o Manage the meeting process for the BEESOS Trust, including agendas, collation of paper and minutes
- Manage company secretarial budget.
Functional competencies
- Understanding of company secretarial practice.
- Knowledge of the principles of corporate governance.
- Understanding and application of King III
- Understanding and application of Companies Act and JSE Listing Requirements.
- Advanced computer literacy.
Minimum qualification required
- CIS qualification.
- 5-8 years company secretarial experience, including development and implementation of systems.
- Must be employed / was employed at a JSE listed company
- 1 of 4 Company Secretaries within a company thereby leaning towards a Assistant / Junior Company Secretary is an advantage
If you have not heard from us in 14 days, please consider your application as unsuccessful