Job Description
Our client, an indigenous group of companies with its head office in Abuja, requires for immediate employment the service of a competent Company Secretary with Legal background.
Company Secretary Duties and Responsibilities
- Maintaining current awareness about company law;
- Providing legal/financial advice during and outside of meetings.
- Implementing procedural/administrative systems;
- Administering pension schemes and share issues;
- Dealing with company/staff insurance policies;
- Managing contractual arrangements with suppliers/customers;
- Legal and HR administration;
- Keeping a register of shareholders and liaising with them on behalf of the company.
- Writing reports;
- Collating information;
- Providing support to committees and working parties such as the Board of Directors etc;
- Handling correspondence before and after meetings;
- Convening and servicing annual general meetings (AGM)/meetings (producing agendas, taking minutes; conveying decisions etc.);
- Managing office space/premises/property;
Company Secretary Requirements / Skills / Qualifications
- A degree in Law .
- Training and induction of non-executives and trustees,
- Management of employee benefits such as pensions and employee share schemes,
- Insurance administration and organisation
- Negotiation of contracts,
- Risk management
- A good head for numbers
- Interest/knowledge in company law
- Excellent communicator
- Strong attention to detail,
- Ability to write clearly and concisely.
- Professional, tactful, hardworking and extremely well organised.
- Ethical, diplomatic and independent – you’ll often act as a board confidante.
- Should be based in Abuja.