Senior Manager, Company Secretarial & Legal Entity Governance

Factor; New York (NY); Hybride; USD 200 000 - 300 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Factor, a leader in Integrated Law, seeks a Senior Manager for Company Secretarial & Legal Entity Management in New York. Hybrid role, three days in-office near Times Square. Requires 7+ years in company secretarial, governance or LEM in financial services.

You will support governance, regulatory compliance and entity management with senior stakeholders. You will drive strategic initiatives, mentor a small team, and ensure data integrity across the entity portfolio, while delivering high-quality

Qualifications

• Significant experience in company secretarial, governance, and legal entity management within a multinational financial services setting.
• Direct people management experience and ability to mentor a team.
• Strong knowledge of corporate law, governance frameworks, and regulatory requirements.
• Experience managing board and committee meetings, including papers and minutes.
• Expertise maintaining legal entity records and statutory registers.
• Experience lifecycle management: incorporations, restructures, mergers, dissolutions.

Responsabilités

• Lead delivery of legal entity management and governance services for a complex global client.
• Serve as senior escalation point for governance, regulatory and operational matters.
• Lead, mentor and develop a small team with strong quality control.
• Build trusted relationships with executive stakeholders including GC and governance offices.
• Drive governance frameworks and reporting capabilities across jurisdictions.
• Identify opportunities to improve service through automation and AI-enabled solutions.
• Oversee large-scale governance projects across multiple jurisdictions.
• Provide strategic guidance on entity governance and regulatory developments.

Connaissances

Company secretarial

Corporate governance

Legal entity management

People management

Regulatory compliance

Board governance

Stakeholder management

Project management

Description du poste

With a legacy as a pioneer in the ALSP market, Factor leads the next evolution in legal services through AI-integrated contracting.

Factor is the market leader in Integrated Law™, combining the expertise of Traditional Law, the efficiency of New Law, and the close business integration of In-house legal to deliver complex legal work at scale.

Factor works alongside corporate legal departments to solve for the ever-increasing demands and complexity of transactional legal work. Our "do while transforming, transform while doing" approach combines specialist expertise, AI-powered solutions, and business process knowledge to deliver better performance, better business and legal outcomes, and a transformed contracting experience.

Our clients span Fortune 500 companies including global banks, major pharmaceutical companies and large technology firms.

We believe that the more diverse our team becomes — in backgrounds, skills, experiences, and perspectives — the higher our creative potential as a company. We are dedicated to growing a diverse, inclusive company where individuals of all backgrounds thrive.

We are comprised of more than 300 lawyers, legal specialists, technologists, and process consultants across Europe and North America.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Manager, Company Secretarial & Legal Entity Management to join our client in New York. This is a hybrid position, requiring three days per week in the office, located near Times Square. The successful candidate will have at least 7 years of experience in a similar company secretarial, corporate governance, or legal entity management role within the financial services industry. You will play a key role in supporting corporate governance activities, managing legal entities, ensuring regulatory compliance, and partnering with senior stakeholders across the business.

Responsibilities

• Lead the successful delivery of legal entity management and corporate governance services for a complex global financial services client.
• Serve as the senior escalation point for governance, regulatory and operational matters across the engagement.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a small team, ensuring effective workload distribution and high-quality output through robust quality control.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with executive client stakeholders, including General Counsel, Corporate Secretaries, Governance Officers and business leadership teams.
• Lead, develop and mentor a team of legal entity management professionals, creating a culture of accountability, high performance and continuous improvement.
• Drive strategic initiatives to enhance governance frameworks, regulatory compliance, entity management processes and reporting capabilities.
• Identify opportunities to improve service delivery through automation, AI-enabled solutions, process redesign and operational efficiencies.
• Oversee large-scale governance and regulatory projects, ensuring effective execution across multiple jurisdictions and stakeholder groups.
• Provide strategic guidance on legal entity governance, board effectiveness, entity rationalisation, and regulatory developments impacting the client.
• Establish and monitor service delivery metrics, identifying risks, trends and opportunities to improve quality and client outcomes.
• Partner with internal leadership teams to support business growth, solution development and client expansion opportunities.
• Ensure effective management of legal entity data, governance records and regulatory reporting obligations across the portfolio.
• Contribute to the development of Factor's broader Legal Entity Management offering, including best practices, methodologies and thought leadership.
• Champion a culture of innovation, collaboration and client excellence across the team.

Essential Criteria

• Significant experience in company secretarial, corporate governance, and legal entity management within a multinational, finanxial services industry
• Direct people management experience
• Strong knowledge of corporate law, governance frameworks, and statutory compliance requirements across multiple jurisdictions.
• Proven experience managing board and committee meetings, including agenda preparation, board papers, minutes, and action tracking.
• Expertise in maintaining legal entity records, statutory registers, and corporate documentation.
• Demonstrated ability to oversee entity lifecycle management, including incorporations, restructures, mergers, acquisitions, and entity dissolutions.
• Experience liaising with regulators, external legal counsel, auditors, and corporate service providers.
• Strong understanding of corporate governance best practices and the ability to advise senior leadership on governance matters.
• Experience leading and developing a team, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders.

$200,000 - $300,000 a year