Associate Company Secretary

Euroclear; Belgique; Ibrido; EUR 90.000 - 130.000; Tempo pieno

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Hybrid work mode

Descrizione del lavoro

Euroclear is seeking a governance professional to join the Governance Regulatory Team (GRT) in Brussels. You will contribute to day-to-day governance activities, maintain board records, and drive a harmonised governance framework across Euroclear Group subsidiaries.

You will work in hybrid mode from Brussels, collaborating with the team to streamline governance processes and enable AI-driven improvements, while ensuring regulatory compliance and governance excellence.

Competenze

• Several years of proven experience in corporate governance or corporate secretariat activities.
• Understanding of corporate administration, governance and regulatory filings.
• Ability to maintain governance dashboards and respond to regulatory questions.
• Experience with AI and technology to enhance governance processes is a plus.
• Strong analytical and stakeholder management capabilities.

Mansioni

• Develop groupwide governance policies and procedures for boards and committees.
• Prepare and maintain official corporate notices, records and board actions.
• Collect advice on legal and regulatory obligations related to governance.
• Improve governance processes, applying AI to enhance efficiency.
• Ensure governance data sources are accurate and up to date.
• Support group Company Secretaries in AGM/EGM organization.
• Contribute to board committee reports and minute templates.

Conoscenze

Corporate governance

Secretariat activities

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Change management

Team collaboration

Autonomous work style

Growth mindset

Formazione

Law degree

Strumenti

Governance software

AI governance tools

Descrizione del lavoro

Division & Team

You will be a member of the Legal, Governance, Regulatory (LGR) Division of Euroclear SA/NV. Within the LGR Division, you will be a key member of the Governance Regulatory Team (GRT), actively contributing to its day-to-day activities and priorities, and reporting to the Head of Governance for Euroclear Group Subsidiaries.

The Governance Regulatory Team is a dynamic team of 8 with a great team spirit and work atmosphere, delivering the essential Corporate Governance activities, ensuring that Euroclear Group’s Directors (Board members) are appointed on Boards on a timely basis, recognised suitable by the relevant authorities and that the Governance framework of Euroclear Group is adequately implemented across the various group entities.

The team’s key responsibilities include:

• driving the end to end internal and external suitability process for the group’s directors and senior leadership,
• transversal implementation of the governance framework as enabler for group strategy,
• proactively ensuring the group’s governance administration (incl. filings & publications),
• enabling transversality and an increased group-approach, both for ESA/EH, the EU Markets and other subsidiaries through integration of regulatory evolutions, governance best practices.

The job is located in Brussels (hybrid mode).

Role & responsibilities

Your main tasks and responsibilities will include:

• Developing groupwide and strategic governance solutions & policies & procedures for Board & executive team/committees regarding corporate governance areas and driving their implementation (also acting as Subject Matter Expert for certain governance areas)
• Preparing and maintaining official corporate notices, records and actions of the Board of Directors;
• Collecting advice about legal and regulatory obligations related to corporate governance, and corporate administration and guaranteeing that procedures are effective and in line with regulation & governance standards;
• Simplify and automate governance processes, also applying AI. Ensuring transversal & harmonised approach on administration & support related to governance matters;
• Ensuring golden source of Governance data are recorded adequately, to provide opportunities to roll out AI solutions more effectively,
• Providing ad hoc special support on projects related to corporate governance (incl. AI solutions for Corporate Governance, M&A, optimization of intra-group governance, etc.);
• Supporting the Group Company Secretaries in fulfilling certain aspects of their roles such as AGMs/EGMs organisation;
• Contributing to the preparation of the Board Committees reports, the drafting of scripts and preparing minute templates;
• Managing all of the above autonomously.

Your profile

Technical skills

We are looking for a profile:

• With several years of proven experience in corporate governance/corporate secretariat activities and administration. A legal background is generally considered as a plus, but not mandatory required;
• That understands concepts of corporate administration and corporate governance (in a wider scope and with increased complexity),such as Directors remuneration processing, the logging of conflict of interest, suitability files, shareholders’ transfers and registration, etc.;
• That manages legal, statutory and regulatory filings, regulatory notifications, and internal governance requirements, can maintain UBOs, maintains governance dashboards information, deal with regulatory questions;
• That is responsible for keeping the Governance related information up to date on internal and external resources;
• That performs research legal information, researching corporate documents, regulations and court decisions and prepare fit-for-purpose proposals in this respect under supervision of more senior colleagues;
• Interest in leveraging AI and technology to enhance governance processes, reporting and operational efficiency.

Soft skills

• Strong communication and analytical skills;
• Team player with pragmatic, strategic, proactive, client centric and result-oriented mindset;
• Ability to prioritize tasks, well organized, anticipate, work autonomously, maintain discretion & confidentiality;
• Strong process improvement and change management mindset, with a demonstrated ability to simplify, optimise and professionalise governance frameworks and ways of working;
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the confidence to engage constructively with senior management, board members and control functions;

• Demonstrates curiosity, eagerness to grow, to learn and build a solid understanding of Euroclear Group’s Governance and business;
• Strong interpersonal skills to effectively interact with team members and various stakeholders;
• A collaborative, positive and team-oriented approach, combined with a strong sense of ownership and accountability;
• Ability to work independently in a dynamic environment while maintaining high organisational standards and delivering under pressure and against deadlines;
• Self-starter with a growth mindset, eager to learn, develop expertise and contribute to the continuous evolution of the governance function.

Join us at Euroclear and contribute to a team that values excellence, collaboration, and innovation. Your expertise will help us navigate the complexities of the financial market and deliver exceptional services to our clients.

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