Igsi Co-sec

Investec is a distinctive Specialist Bank serving clients principally in the UK and South Africa. Our culture gives us our edge: we work hard to find colleagues who'll think out of the ordinary and we put them in environments where they'll flourish. We combine a flat structure with a focus on internal mobility. If you can bring an entrepreneurial spirit and a desire to learn and collaborate to your work, this could be the boost your career deserves.

**Compliance**
- Responsible for Conducting Compliance Induction training for new joiners.
- Responsible for Managing OBA affirmation and annual affirmations.
- Responsible for organizing annual firmwide personal account dealing training.
- Responsible for clearing personal account dealing for employees.
- Responsible for drafting and reviewing policies and ensuring they are annually updated
- Provide necessary support towards Operational Resilience and Operational Risk.
- Responsible for Managing Compliance trainings and Skill cast.
- SPOC for employees for compliance related queries
- Responsible for ensuring compliance with all local regulations as applicable to the company including but not limited to Company Law,
- Responsible for managing compliance calendar for the company and ensuring all regulatory/statutory compliances are completed timely by liaising with different business enablement areas

**Company Secretarial**
- Preparing agendas for a range of governance forums and committees, managing the meeting calendar and liaising with functional representatives responsible for preparing papers around deadlines, preparing meeting packs, and drafting the minutes, actions schedule and any upstream reports to other forums.
- Managing the Authorised Signatory process and dealing with sealing requests and other signatory queries
- Responsible for keeping legal entity data current in GEMS
- Responsible for ensuring all changes in relation to legal entity due to address or other changes are completed timely.
- Managing the process for regular statutory compliance events for the company including submission of confirmation statements and signoff of annual accounts, as well as ad hoc processes such as director changes
- Any other ad hoc tasks related to company secretarial function

**Legal**
- Responsible to be able to effectively engage with external law firms on legal matters in relation to third party contracts
- Act SPOC on legal matters for the internal teams

**Technical knowledge and experience**
- CS and LLB
- 10+ years post-qualified experience in similar profile
- Good understanding of GCC (advantageous but not essential)
- Good understanding of UK regulations (advantageous but not essential)
- Strong drafting abilities with particular ability/perception to be able to transpose/precis technical concepts/discussions with accurate, fluent and logical writing style for minutes and other reports
- Strong attention to detail for format and typography
- Good organisational skills and project management abilities
- Working knowledge of Diligent Boards (or equivalent board portal software)
- Working knowledge of GEMS (or equivalent legal entity management software)

**Personal attributes**
- Strong character with excellent interpersonal skills
- Strong relationship management skills, able to influence and build rapport
- Ability to analyse, interpret and assimilate information
- Pro-active with a strong work ethic
- Ability to work in a dynamic and changing environment
- Ability to work to tight deadlines and under pressure, managing conflicting priorities and ability to multi-task when required.
- Ability to work well independently and as part of a team, across the entire financial and accounting spectrum
- An appetite for keeping abreast with the latest statutory and regulatory developments
- Good time management skills.
- Strong integrity and discretion when required.
- Natural team player, comfortable working closely in a team environment
- Natural investigative skills, sorting through apparently unrelated data and making connections.
- Strong numeracy.
- Computer literate with an excellent knowledge of the Microsoft Office suite, including Word (extensive formatting experience), PowerPoint and Excel
- Personable, pro-active, flexible, pragmatic, robust. You must have the

ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with people at all levels of an organisation and across a range of jurisdictions

Embedded in our culture is a sense of belonging and inclusion. This creates an environment in which everyone is free to be themselves which helps to drive innovation, creativity and ultimately business performance. At Investec we want everyone to find it easy to be themselves, and to feel they belong. It's a responsibility we all share and is integral to our purpose and values as an organisation.

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