Senior Associate Company Secretary, Brussels

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
• Managing all of the above autonomously, coordinating more junior members.

Your profile

Technical skills

We are looking for a profile:

• With several years (5Y+) 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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