Are you a self-starter, energetic, ambitious and ready for a company secretarial role for a company with exciting growth plans?

This role  would suit an ambitious candidate looking to grow their company secretarial career in a fast-paced and highly regulated environment.  The role provides a wide range of experience, exposure to senior management and board level interaction. Reporting to the Goodbody Company Secretary, you will promote best practice in corporate governance in line with AIB Group and Goodbody policies, regulatory, statutory and market practices.

We’re looking for someone to:

• Support the Company Secretary in managing the delivery of efficient, effective and high-quality company secretarial services to the Board, Board sub-committees, subsidiary companies and the Executive Team.
• Ensure that subsidiary entities and their Directors are aware of and compliant with applicable company law, corporate governance and other statutory and regulatory obligations, including compliance with AIB’s internal governance and subsidiary management policies.
• Minute take, ensuring content and contributions at meetings are captured and manage all action items.
• Prepare top quality governance related papers in line with set guidelines for the Boards and Committees.
• Liaising with relevant stakeholders to collate and distribute Board & Committee papers through Diligent.
• Support the preparation and organisation of Board and Committee meetings.
• Maintain the statutory registers (on Diligent Entities), minute books and other corporate records of Goodbody and its subsidiary companies.
• Monitor and respond to general company secretarial queries from internal and external stakeholders including regulatory requests, internal and external auditors, AML queries etc.
• Ensure that all regulatory and statutory filings are completed on a timely basis.
• Assist the Company Secretary in ad-hoc corporate governance projects.
• Support the onboarding and induction of Board members.

We’re looking for someone who:

• Has strong communication & stakeholder management skills with the confidence and ability to influence.
• Has an ability to work efficiently under pressure, in a fast-paced environment and manage competing priorities with tight deadlines.
• Has strong interpersonal communication skills
• Has an ability to work independently and on own initiative while being a strong collaborator
• Is proactive – can drive initiatives along.

You will need to show us that you have:

• A relevant third-level or ICSA qualification
• Knowledge of Irish company law in general and particularly the Companies Act, 2014
• A minimum of 3 years’ experience within the company secretarial field or in a similar position, ideally in a regulated financial services environment