Job Summary
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As a member of the Board governance team within Group Corporate Secretariat's ("GCS") London team, you will provide high quality advice and support to the listed PLC and its directors across a broad range of governance matters, equity listings and shareholder services activities, in order to drive exemplary corporate governance.
Key Responsibilities
Processes
1. Assist relevant stakeholders within GCS to drive improvements in GCS processes (through process simplification, digitalisation and efficiency improvement)
2. Ensure that Department Operating Instructions / Procedures notes continue to be fit for purpose, updated and maintained for key tasks
3. Support the team in ensuring that information disclosed and owned by GCS on internal and external websites is accurate maintained at all times
Board Governance
1. Act as a key point of contact for the provision of high-quality advice and support on general listed corporate governance, company secretarial queries and support compliance with relevant legislative, regulatory and best practice requirements
2. Assist in the production and drafting of the SCPLC corporate governance and directors' report sections of the Annual and Half-Year Reports, liaising with the Project Management Team, key internal functions and stakeholders to collate and verify statutory and regulatory data, including managing the confirmation of material from directors and senior executives in the Group and collaborating with the Hong Kong GCS team as required.
3. Ensure that GCS keeps pace with developing and emerging best practice, new legislation, regulatory and corporate governance developments, including drafting reports and papers on relevant matters and providing updates to the London GCS team and Global GCS colleagues, where relevant
4. Work collaboratively with subsidiary governance teams within the function to enable the smooth and effective operating of subsidiaries and maintaining effective sharing of best practice
Listings
1. To assist in providing exemplary advice in relation to the UK Listing Rules and Disclosure and Transparency Rules, Companies Act 2006 and the UK Market Abuse Regulation
2. Act as key point of contact for the publication of stock exchange announcements on the London Stock Exchange, working closely with colleagues in Hong Kong (dual listing) to ensure announcements are made in compliance with the relevant regulations. Ensuring the operational risk control process is followed and upheld
Skills and Experience
1. Experience of working within a UK listed company of substantial size and complexity, preferably with some financial services experience
2. Excellent attention to detail
3. Ability to build relationships at all levels and confident in dealing with senior executives and Board members
4. Ability to prioritise workload and manage deadlines. Adaptable to last minute and developing events whilst still maintaining composure
5. Reliable, self-motivated, intuitive and proactive
6. Possess the ability to identify and drive opportunities for continuous improvement
7. Adept to working in a confidential environment, with increased compliance / control standards
8. Discretion and confidentiality
9. Responsibility, perseverance, resilience and flexibility
Qualifications
1. Education - Undergraduate Degree
2. Training - Newly CGI Qualified with at least 1-2 Yrs Post Grad Experience
3. Membership - CGI Member
About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.
Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.
Together we:
1. Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
2. Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
3. Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term
What we offer
In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.
1. Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
2. Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
3. Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
4. Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
5. A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
6. Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.
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