Job Summary
This position is a full-time Analyst (CL11) role to be filled by an experienced paralegal with at least 2 years of company secretary / corporate governance experience in a MNC or law firm. The role will mainly focus on company secretarial / corporate governance matters in Ireland and the successful candidate will support the Company Secretary of all of our Irish companies.
Job Responsibilities
Meetings
- Coordinating and scheduling board, committee and shareholder meetings
- Working with local Irish stakeholders to align meeting room allocations, catering and tech support requirements for each meeting, and on-the-ground support during board meetings.
- Organising and attending meeting prep sessions with key stakeholders / presenters in advance of meetings and taking ownership of ensuring all parties are apprised of their actions and deliver their materials by agreed deadlines.
- Collating and compiling board packs, PPT formatting and presentation of slides during the board meeting
- Physically attending board / committee meetings to help with logistics
- Taking detailed minutes and preparation of first draft minutes.
- Drafting and maintaining actions logs, identifying post-meeting action owners and communicating actions to them, tracking deadlines and outstanding matters.
- Preparing and organising execution of statutory and governance documents after meetings e.g. minutes, statutory registers, transaction documents, POAs, statutory financial statements, declarations, filings etc.
- Assisting with drafting of Irish legal documents e.g. resolutions, AGM materials, CRO submissions etc.
Controls and Record Management
- Implementing required internal controls, including maintenance of controls documentation and trackers
- Maintaining and updating statutory registers in line with Irish legal requirements
- Updating corporate records and appendices ahead of corporate filing deadlines
- Managing requests from across the business for document signatures, and for notarisation / apostilles by working with local service providers; maintenance of physical company seals for affixing to documents as needed.
- Archiving hard copy materials in our Dublin offices, compiling inventories and sending to secure offsite storage
- Become Asset Steward for digital assets registered on Archer and complete quarterly access reviews / annual data privacy controls etc.
- Minimum 2 years’ PQE with experience in Irish corporate governance / management of governance of Irish companies / company secretarial work.
- Experience in CRO / RBO database and filings preferred
- Good knowledge of Irish Companies Act (and related legislation) and ability to monitor changes in Irish company law and related legal areas
- Excellent planning, co-ordination, organisational and written and oral communication skills
- Strong people skills including ability to manage senior stakeholders
- Attention to detail in drafting
- Ability to work well under pressure and tight deadlines
- Willingness to learn, self-motivated, goal-oriented.
About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with 774,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.Visit us atwww.accenture.com
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