Company Secretary

6 months ago


Johannesburg, South Africa Thungela Full time

**Company Description**
Are you an experienced **Company Secretary** with a proven track record of excellent performance and ambition to advance your career? We have an exciting opportunity for you

As the **Company Secretary** you will lead Thungela’s corporate governance and regulatory and policy compliance through providing effective and efficient company secretarial support to the board, executive directors, and related board committees.

Thungela Resources [Thungela means “to ignite” in isiZulu] is a leading South African thermal coal business, focused exclusively on thermal coal production. It is one of the largest pure-play producers and exporters of thermal coal in South Africa based on aggregate coal reserves and marketable coal production. Thungela focuses on exporting its thermal coal portfolio mainly to the Indian, Asian, Southeast Asian, Middle East and North African markets.

Your duties will include managing corporate governance and company secretarial matters pertaining to the board and board subcommittees of the Thungela group of companies, including advising the executive directors and board members of laws and regulations, as well as recommended governance requirements to enable these members to discharge their fiduciary responsibilities in line with applicable legislation and relevant corporate governance standards.

**More of your responsibilities will include**:

- Ensuring all statutory entities across Thungela implement and maintain appropriate systems to ensure legal compliance and to maintain appropriate records to demonstrate statutory compliance for Thungela, joint ventures, associates and trusts
- Reporting to the board any failure on the part of the company or a director to comply with the memorandum of incorporation or rules of the company or applicable legislation
- Monitoring compliance to the various companies’ memorandum of incorporation and shareholders’ agreements and the King Code of Corporate Governance for South Africa, including drafting the applicable reporting related to corporate governance
- Acting as the main administrative officer of Thungela by leading the drafting and reviewing process for terms of reference for all board committees as well as leading the processes related to the nomination of new board members, onboarding new board members and the assessment of board activities
- Overseeing the management and preparation of agendas, minutes, and documentation for all applicable meetings within the required standards for all applicable group companies
- Ensuring maintenance of all of the company’s statutory records and organising the annual general meeting in line with the applicable requirements
- Managing the policies related to business integrity and antitrust and ensuring effective compliance and training for the appropriate people in Thungela
- Managing the process to ensure documentation, including banking documentation, is appropriately signed, and archived
- Identifying appropriate signatories in order to ensure legal and technical approval is obtained and ensure documents are signed on time
- Ensuring that relevant standards related to the archiving of applicable documentation are developed and ensuring that archives are kept in accordance with these standards
- Accountability for the management of the head office facilities, associated contracts and service providers to ensure the delivery of an effective, safe and comfortable working space
- Executing adhoc special projects requiring company secretarial and administrative support through ensuring that client needs are understood

**Qualifications**
- Bachelor’s degree in a legal discipline (B Proc or LLB) (NQF Level 7)
- Chartered Institute of Secretaries Diploma or Degree (with the latter being preferable)

**Experience & Knowledge**
- Minimum of 8 years’ experience as a company secretary in a medium or large listed company
- Experience in managing statutory and corporate requirements
- Experience in the mining industry (advantageous)

**Additional Information** Advanced knowledge of all relevant legislation and governance standards including**:

- The Companies Act, No 71 of 2008
- Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act 2002, Act 28 of 2002
- Competition Act, 89 of 1998
- Protection of Personal Information Act, No 4 of 2018
- Proficient knowledge of commercial management
- Emerging knowledge of contract law
- Proficient understanding of process analysis, planning and monitoring and reporting techniques and practices
- Advanced knowledge of corporate governance standards (i.e. King III & IV)

**Who We Are**

We’re a company that promotes an environment that inspires innovation and where people have a shared sense of purpose. Skills, experience, creativity, and agility underpin our ability to grow and thrive. This means building a diverse team of high-performing individuals who operate our sites safely, effectively and cost efficiently. Our people focus is centered on ac


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