Regional Company Secretary at Standard Chartered Bank

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We are recruiting for the position of:

Job Title: Regional Company Secretary, West Africa
Job ID: 368769
Job Function: Group Corporate Secretariat

Job Description
As a senior member of Group Corporate Secretariat’s (“GCS”) regional West subsidiary governance leadership team, provide guidance to and oversight of the company secretaries across West Africa (Nigeria, Ghana, Gambia, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Sierra Leone) in order to further embed high standards of corporate governance across the region. To ensure the continuous delivery of a high quality, efficient and effective company secretarial service to the region’s boards, their committees, directors, shareholders and the businesses. Drive the delivery of the GCS collective agenda and strategic priorities across the region.

Key Roles & Responsibilities

• Support the Head of Subsidiary Governance, West, and develop and build strong linkages with the country CEOs and the Regional CEO for West Africa.
• Work closely with the company secretaries to ensure that the Subsidiary Governance Policy and the company secretary minimum standards are fully embedded and understood.
• Coach and enable the company secretaries to deliver consistently high trusted advisory support to their respective CEOs and boards, particularly in relation to succession planning; director inductions and training; linkages between the subsidiary boards and Group/PLC; and anticipated regulatory governance changes.
• Take a lead role at Regional CEO level on all trusted advisory support.
• Ensure a thorough understanding across the region’s company secretaries of all GCS policies and embed robust assurance processes.
• Provide thought leadership and stimulate best practice sharing across the region and the wider network.
• Enhance board effectiveness by overseeing effective implementation of actions plans from board effectiveness reviews across the region.
• Drive high levels of engagement among the company secretarial teams in West Africa.
• Embed a structured approach to professional development focused on acquiring a deep knowledge and understanding of banking and business dynamics.

Qualifications & Skills

• Hold a professional qualification (for example legal, chartered secretary or chartered accountant) with technical knowledge and experience, ideally gained within the financial services sector
• Experience of working within an international organisation of substantial size and complexity
• Ability to lead, empower and motivate a team
• Strong leadership and influencing skills including excellent stakeholder management skills
• A conceptual and analytical thinker
• Proven excellent organisational and forward planning skills are essential
• Possess the ability to identify and drive opportunities for continuous improvement
• Excellent attention to detail
• Excellent interpersonal and written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate at all levels and between different cultures
• Possess a flexible and collegiate approach with the ability to contribute to teamwork enhancement
• Ability to prioritise workload and manage deadlines
• Reliable, self-motivated and proactive
• Possess a pragmatic and common sense approach
• Willingness to undertake reasonable amount of travel across the region.

Application Closing Date
28th February, 2013

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

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