Company Secretary Administrator
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Job no: 571884
Work type: Full time
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Categories: Administration, Group Legal & Risk, Funds, Entity Management
Office Location: Cape Town
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About TMF Group TMF Group is a leading provider of critical administrative services, helping clients invest and operate safely around the world. Our 11 000+ experts and 125+ offices in 87 jurisdictions worldwide serve corporates, financial institutions, asset managers, private clients and family offices, providing the combination of accounting, tax, payroll, fund administration, compliance and entity management services essential to global business success
The CoSec resource is required to adequately support both the existing and new business for the client portfolio, which is growing rapidly. The position is revenue generating, and aligns to both the Jersey Client CoSec team and the Admin teams, and alleviates some of the pressure from the Admin client admin teams by providing them with dedicated CoSec support.
Key Responsibilities
The primary focus of the role will be:
Support the Administration teams in the use of Board Intelligence for Board Pack Preparation and document retention, and oversee user access rights
Board/ Shareholder meeting attendance / Board communication as required
Scheduled and Ad hoc Board / Shareholders / Managers / unit holder / committee meetings - Minute taking / drafting /circulation / approval / filing
Drafting of Board / Shareholders minutes and written resolutions for a diverse portfolio of structures with timeliness and efficiency, to a high level of accuracy and with minimum oversight. The diversity and complexity of the minutes will be dependent on the experience and knowledge of the jobholder
Oversight of the Annual Confirmation Statement and Annual Administration Fee Payments cycle
Set Up, Maintenance and closure of Jersey entities in Viewpoint
Set up and Maintenance of Statutory registers for members, directors, secretary and other significant parties for Jersey entities
Assist with ensuring all statutory returns, filings and notifications are made at the appropriate time
Maintain the beneficial owner, controller and significant party information for jersey entities in My Registry and ensure that the 21 day deadline for reporting any changes is always met
Maintenance of all Client CoSec Team trackers
Support execution of client specific procedures and controls
Assist/support the management of existing client relationships
Work within client Service Level Agreements
Ensure systems are fully and accurately populated in relation to entities worked on
Ensure costs related to ad-hoc and bespoke client work are identified and captured
In addition to the duties listed above, the Company Secretarial Administrator may be requested to perform any other ad hoc duties or projects as requested by management or appropriate supervisor.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS
Candidate Profile:
Ideally the post holder will be educated to minimum A-Level
Ideally in the process of taking a relevant professional qualification – although not essential
Previous experience of administration and company secretarial duties in a Funds and Company environment is essential.
Operation Excellence:
Strives for high standards of delivery to clients
Has a strong understanding of processes needed to undertake role successfully
Makes informed judgements and decisions based on practice and precedent
Decisions will be made within defined limits of authority
Commercial Awareness:
Has a basic understanding of the TMF Groups' service lines and TMF is structured.
Understands and applies control and risk and governance frameworks consistently
Is mindful of the TMF values
Leadership and Resource Management:
May have supervisory responsibilities for work carried out by members of the immediate team
Organises the use of resources to meet expectations and identifies difficulties
Reviews non-complex work undertaken by more junior team members
Informally manages expectations of more senior colleagues infrequently
Interpersonal Skills:
Communicates information in a clear and concise manner (verbal and written work) to both internal and external stakeholders
Able to deal with difficult situations in a calm and diplomatic way
Client Excellence:
Takes ownership of particular clients to ensure a consistent level of service
Listen actively whilst understanding what relevant questions they should ask and respectfully taking into account global and cultural differences
Makes it a priority to be accessible and responsive to customers
Build rapport with clients and use body language and voice techniques effectively
Evaluates and reports back on client service levels
Compliance:
Acts with the highest level of integrity at all times
Act in the best interests of TMF (taking into account the interests of TMF customers, where appropriate)
Act in a professional manner and produce accurate and timely work product
Will be clear, open and transparent in your communications with TMF colleagues and customers
Promptly report any issues (or possible issues) you identify to your manager (or an appropriate member of the senior management team) for consideration and resolution
Never make any statement that is misleading, false or deceptive
What's in it for you? An exciting opportunity in an international company Professional development opportunities as well as extensive individual further training opportunities, supported by our TMF Business Academy A career within an ever evolving market
Advertised: 04 Sep 2024 South Africa Standard Time
Applications close: 04 Oct 2024 South Africa Standard Time
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