Job Description
Division & Team
You will be a member of the Legal, Governance, Regulatory (LGR) Division of Euroclear SA/NV. In the LGR Division you will be coordinating the activity of the Governance Regulatory Team (GRT), reporting to the Head of Governance for Euroclear Group Subsidiaries. GRT is a dynamic team of 8 with a great team spirit and work atmosphere, delivering the essential Corporate Governance activities, ensuring that Euroclear Group’s Directors (Board members) are appointed on Boards on a timely basis, recognised suitable by the relevant authorities and that the Governance framework of Euroclear Group is adequately implemented. The team’s key responsibilities include:
- driving the suitability process for the group’s directors and senior leadership,
- transversal implementation of the governance framework as enabler for group strategy,
- proactively ensuring the group’s governance administration (incl. filings & publications),
- enabling transversality and an increased group-approach, both for the EU Markets and other subsidiaries through integration of regulatory evolutions, governance best practices
The job is located in Brussels (hybrid mode).
Role & responsibilities
Your main tasks and responsibilities will include:
- Developing groupwide and strategic governance solutions & policies & procedures for Board & executive team/committees regarding corporate governance areas and driving their implementation (also acting as Subject Matter Expert for certain governance areas)
- Providing advice about legal and regulatory obligations related to corporate governance; and corporate administration;
- Preparing and maintaining official corporate notices, records and actions of the Board of Directors;
- Guaranteeing that procedures are in line with regulation & governance standards;
- Supporting the Group Company Secretaries in fulfilling all aspects of their roles such as Boards, AGMs/EGMs;
- Contributing to the preparation of the Board Committees reports, the drafting of scripts and preparing minute templates;
- Ensuring transversal & harmonised approach on administration & support related to governance matters;
- Providing ad hoc special projects related to corporate governance (incl. AI solutions for Corporate Governance, M&A, optimization of intra-group governance, etc.);
- Ensuring golden source of Governance data are recorded adequately, to provide opportunities to roll out AI solutions more effectively, and
Your profile
Technical skills
We are looking for a profile:
- With at least 3 Years of experience in corporate governance/corporate secretariat activities and administration. A legal background is considered as a plus, but not mandatory required;
- That understands concepts of corporate administration and corporate governance (in a wider scope and with increased complexity), such as Directors remuneration processing, the logging of conflict of interest, suitability files, shareholders’ transfers and registration, etc.;
- That manages legal, statutory and regulatory filings, preparation of general meetings, regulatory notifications, and internal governance requirements, can maintain UBOs, maintains governance dashboards information, deal with regulatory questions;
- That is responsible for keeping the Governance related information up to date on internal and external resources;
- That performs research legal information, researching law and corporate documents, regulations and court decisions and prepare fit-for-purpose proposals in this respect under supervision of more senior colleagues
Soft skills
- Strong communication and analytical skills;
- Team player with pragmatic, strategic, proactive, client centric and result-oriented mindset;
- Ability to prioritize tasks, well organized, anticipate, work autonomously, maintain discretion & confidentiality;
- Able to work under pressure;
- Able to maintain operation relationship with different categories of stakeholders;
- Previous experience in streamlining process, simplification is a plus;
- Eagerness to grow, to learn and build a solid understanding of Euroclear Group’s Governance and business; and
- Strong interpersonal skills to effectively interact with team members and various stakeholders.
Join us at Euroclear and contribute to a team that values excellence, collaboration, and innovation. Your expertise will help us navigate the complexities of the financial market and deliver exceptional services to our clients.
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