Company Secretary, Corporate Legal

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in company secretarial roles, including managing international corporate maintenance matters, at a law firm or in-house legal department.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Associate Member/Graduate of The Chartered Governance Institute or equivalent.
• Ability to work on a broad variety of legal and non-legal matters.
• Excellent analytical skills, with a strong ability to review and organize numerous documents in complex legal matters.
• Excellent problem-solving, organizational, and time management skills, attention to detail, and ability to succeed in a fast-paced environment and prioritize multiple projects/requests that are time sensitive.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
  
  

About The Job

In this role, you will deliver full pieces of a project that are integrated into an overarching project, with minimal assistance. You'll provide support to the Legal Department on various legal and administrative matters within projects of moderate impact, risk, and complexity, managing information and documentation, conducting legal reviews, advising clients on risks and solutions, and improving processes. You will address commonly escalated issues or triage by responding promptly and thoroughly to requests from inside and outside of the Legal Department while also developing and proactively implementing recommendations and solutions outside of established procedures to solve problems of moderate complexity based on user/client feedback. You'll interact with multiple groups within the Legal Department, with internal clients across Google, and with external parties, tailoring your communications to the specific audience.

Responsibilities

• Handle corporate expansions, liquidations, integrations, and coordination of corporate compliance, governance, and maintenance for Alphabet subsidiaries in EMEA.
• Plan and coordinate board/shareholder meetings in accordance with local statutory and regulatory requirements, including attending meetings, preparing board/shareholder documents, taking minutes, maintaining corporate records and internal databases. Ensure timely corporate and regulatory filings.
• Act as the point person for internal/external clients, prepare preliminary drafts of legal documents and process documentation, and lead training sessions.
• Design, recommend, and implement new processes and procedures for efficiency and provide guidance to ensure conformity and consistency in the application of Alphabet’s policies/practices. Ensure excellent corporate housekeeping, including tracking of documents, routing documents for signature and distribution, filing, data organization, and handling logistical matters such as corporate chopping, certification, notarization, etc.
• Contribute to other special projects as requested.
  
  
  

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