Senior Associate, Legal Entity Management & Company Secretary-Belfast

Responsibilities:

• Corporate Governance & Company Secretarial
• Manage company secretarial activities for a global portfolio of legal entities.
• Coordinate and support Board and Committee meetings, including agenda planning, preparation of board papers, minute taking, and follow-up actions.Ensure compliance with corporate governance frameworks, constitutional documents, and statutory obligations.
• Maintain accurate statutory registers, corporate records, and governance documentation.
• Provide governance advice and guidance to directors, senior leaders, and stakeholders.
 
Legal entity related matters: 
• Oversee the maintenance and administration of domestic and international legal entities.
• Manage the full entity lifecycle, including incorporations, dissolutions, liquidations, restructures, mergers, and acquisitions.Ensure timely completion of annual filings, regulatory submissions, licenses, and statutory requirements.
• Maintain entity management databases and corporate record systems.
• Coordinate with external corporate secretarial providers, law firms, and regulatory bodies.
 
Compliance and Regulatory matters: 
• Monitor and assess changes in corporate governance and regulatory requirements across relevant jurisdictions.
• Ensure adherence to local corporate laws, filing deadlines, and compliance obligations.
• Support internal audits and compliance reviews relating to legal entities and governance matters.
• Identify and mitigate governance and compliance risks.
• Develop and enhance policies, procedures, and controls related to legal entity management
 
This is a very exciting and unique opportunity to build a career locally but operate globally. 
 
If you believe in being a team player, can collaborate and communicate well with technical and non-technical audiences while bringing a result-driven, focused, high energy, confident, curious, quirky, and most of all fun sense of self, then this is the place for you
 

QUALIFICATIONS:

• You are adaptable, authentic, accountable, and values-driven. You’re a team player who exhibits personal leadership and leaves things better than you found them. We’re looking for someone who always gives their best and inspires others to do the same.
 
In addition to the above, here are the required skills, knowledge, capabilities, and education for this role:
 
Essential Criteria 
• Undergraduate degree
• 4+ years company secretarial or Compliance/Regulatory experience
• Experience leading/managing Board Meetings, Annual General Meetings and Extraordinary General Meetings
• Excellent attention to detail
• Regular client-facing experience
• Good commercial awareness, working directly with business managers
• Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel
• Legally eligible to work in the United Kingdom 
 
Desirable Criteria 
• Familiarity with Blueprint Company Secretarial Software
• Experience working within the financial services sector
• Knowledge of companies legislation outside of the UK
• Exposure to Pan-European investment structures