Manager - Legal and Corporate Secretary

Job Responsibilities:

• Offer legal counsel and provide support for corporate legal matters.
• Oversee legal procedures and handle litigation processes.
• Assess and recognize legal risks and their implications.
• Create, evaluate, negotiate, and manage legal and transactional documents.
• Collaborate with external legal advisors and specialists.
• Keep company management informed of any new laws and regulations that may impact the company or its operations.
• Execute corporate secretarial tasks, including organizing board of directors’ meetings, annual general meetings, extraordinary general meetings, and shareholder meetings, along with managing corporate legal documents.
• Monitor and manage company licenses.
• Track the expiration and renewal of the company's legal documents.
• Correspond with public or private authorities and other relevant parties regarding legal matters.
• Prepare the annual report, which includes maintaining statutory books and registers of members, directors, and secretaries.

Requirements:

• Tertiary qualification in law and holder of a current practicing certificate (or ability to readily regain a practicing certificate).
• More than 3 years post qualification experience.
• Experience as a Company Secretary of a Singapore Public Company or large regulated organisation, including well-developed knowledge of governance, compliance and Board procedures, including the management of Board and Board Committee records.
• Sound understanding of the governance related sections in the Companies Act, and other relevant legislation or the ability to quickly understand.
• Demonstrated effectiveness in managing a range of stakeholder relationships, particularly internal stakeholders with different skills.
• Excellent written communication skills to enable preparation of policy submissions, and high-level plain English briefings, minutes, reports and correspondence, as required.
• A proven ability to work with minimal supervision or direction, to show initiative and to anticipate and meet the needs of the Board Chair, Board Directors and CEO in relation to governance processes and legal issues.
• Ability to set personal workload priorities, observe time constraints and plan and coordinate adherence to deadlines.
• Ability to provide legal advice and communicate effectively about complex legal issues, including the ability to communicate advice in plain English