Company Secretary

The role of Company Secretary is to provide comprehensive company secretarial support to the Board of Governance and the CEO, as well to provide governance advice to the Leadership and Management Teams more generally.

Typical Responsibilities:

  • Provide expert and strategic legal advice to management
  • Administration of board and committee meetings, including scheduling meetings, preparing board packs, drafting skeleton board minutes, preparing and circulating written resolutions, updating resolutions logs, maintaining meeting sheets and the board compliance calendar
  • Assist with improving corporate governance procedures and policies
  • Ensure compliance with statutory requirements and policies and procedures
  • Proactively implement initiatives to drive efficiencies in the areas of board reporting, corporate records and information flows
  • Assist with handling the statutory and regulatory records and obligations of group entities and their directors
  • Maintain the statutory records for all entities in the group
  • Prepare and lodge ASIC forms.

 

Typical requirements:

  • Tertiary qualified in corporate governance or other relevant fields
  • Ideally completed the Graduate Diploma in Applied Corporate Governance
  • 5+ years' experience in a similar role
  • Works well under pressure in a fast-paced environment
  • Strong commercial astuteness and internal/external customer management skills
  • Excellent communication and organisational skills

 

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