Company Secretarial Coordinator (Cape Town CBD) at V&A Waterfront

Requirements
The following job objectives were found to be relevant to this job:

Corporate Governance

• Assist the Company Secretary in fulfilling all the statutory duties of a Company Secretary as outlined in the Companies Act, 2008, for the Group and its subsidiaries
• Draft governance and compliance documentation, such as, meeting Agendas, Notices etc., for the Group and its subsidiaries
• Attend to all corporate governance and company secretarial statutory matters for the Group, including the timely preparation and submission of statutory documents to CIPC, such as annual returns, registration of new companies, directors’ consent forms, etc.
• Prepare and ensure that directors’ financial and directorships interests are updated annually and as may be required.
• Assist with verification documentation and B-BBEE
• Input on ESG Quarterly Reporting.
• Prepare meeting dates and annual workplan for Board and Committee meetings with communication and co-ordination on respect thereof   
• Ensure proper storage of documentation (including electronically), metro filing and archiving
• Maintaining statutory records

Administering the functions of the Board and its Committees

• Liaison between the Board and other stakeholders.
• Coordinate the compilation and timely distribution of the Notices, Agendas and Board and Committee packs, for the Group and its subsidiaries. Both in hard copy (if necessary) and on the relevant Board Management Portal App as may be required.
• Liaising with relevant parties on timeous signature of Minutes, resolutions, and other documentation
• Provide extracts of meeting minutes as required
• Co-ordinating the Board evaluation process and other tasks and processes as required.
• Ensure that the minutes of all Shareholders meetings, board meetings and the meetings of any committees of the board are properly recorded in accordance with the Act.
• Ensure that a copy of the Company’s annual financial statements is sent, in accordance with the Act, to every person who is entitled to it.
• Making travel arrangements as required
• Respond to general queries regarding FICA, SARS, B-BBEE Verification.
• Liaise with External Auditors regarding statutory records.
• Attending to payment of Director Fees and invoices.
• Co-ordinate induction of new Board and Property Committee Members
• Maintaining up to date structure charts, schedules, and contacts for the Group
• Point of contact / liaison between the board and any external consultants
• XBRL conversions and submission to CIPC
• Arranging courier for company secretarial documents, as required.
• Co-ordinate and schedule all Board and Board Committee meetings.
• The use and integration of AI into processes and operations (subject to the Company’s AI policies) in order to improve efficiency.

Educational requirements relevant to this job:

Required:

• Excellent Understanding of the Company Secretariat function
• Experience using company secretarial software
• Microsoft office suite, particularly WORD, EXCEL and POWERPOINT

Advantageous:

• Member of IODSA
• Chartered Secretaries Southern Africa Qualification
•  Knowledge requirements relevant to this job:
• Legislative matters (Including Companies Act, King Code)
• CIPC knowledge 
• BBBEE
• Corporate policies and procedures
• Ethics
• Industry specific knowledge, in particular all CIPC processes, XBRL conversions

 The Skills requirements relevant to this job:

• Tactical Reasoning
• Impact and influence
• Leadership
• Negotiation
• Emotional Intelligence
• Conflict Resolution
• Networking and collaboration
• Logical reasoning
• Problem solving
• Numerical Reasoning
• Understanding of Financial matters
• Verbal and Written communication
• Multitasking
• Networking and collaboration
• Investigation
• Technologically savvy

The Experience requirements  relevant to this job:

• 5+ Years’ Experience (PQE) in the corporate governance and company secretarial environment.
• PA skills and experience