Company Secretary Administrator

1 week ago


Cape Town, South Africa TMF Group Full time

**Job no**: 571884
**Work type**: Full time
**Location**: Cape Town, South Africa
**Categories**: Administration, Group Legal & Risk, Funds, Entity Management
**Office Location**: Cape Town

**About TMF Group**
**TMF Group is a leading provider of critical administrative services, helping clients invest and operate safely around the world. Our 11 000+ experts and 125+ offices in 87 jurisdictions worldwide serve corporates, financial institutions, asset managers, private clients and family offices, providing the combination of accounting, tax, payroll, fund administration, compliance and entity management services essential to global business success**

The CoSec resource is required to adequately support both the existing and new business for the client portfolio, which is growing rapidly. The position is revenue generating, and aligns to both the Jersey Client CoSec team and the Admin teams, and alleviates some of the pressure from the Admin client admin teams by providing them with dedicated CoSec support.

**Key Responsibilities**

The primary focus of the role will be:

- Support the Administration teams in the use of Board Intelligence for Board Pack Preparation and document retention, and oversee user access rights
- Board/ Shareholder meeting attendance / Board communication as required
- Scheduled and Ad hoc Board / Shareholders / Managers / unit holder / committee meetings - Minute taking / drafting /circulation / approval / filing
- Drafting of Board / Shareholders minutes and written resolutions for a diverse portfolio of structures with timeliness and efficiency, to a high level of accuracy and with minimum oversight. The diversity and complexity of the minutes will be dependent on the experience and knowledge of the jobholder
- Oversight of the Annual Confirmation Statement and Annual Administration Fee Payments cycle
- Set Up, Maintenance and closure of Jersey entities in Viewpoint
- Set up and Maintenance of Statutory registers for members, directors, secretary and other significant parties for Jersey entities
- Assist with ensuring all statutory returns, filings and notifications are made at the appropriate time
- Maintain the beneficial owner, controller and significant party information for jersey entities in My Registry and ensure that the 21 day deadline for reporting any changes is always met
- Maintenance of all Client CoSec Team trackers
- Support execution of client specific procedures and controls
- Assist/support the management of existing client relationships
- Work within client Service Level Agreements
- Ensure systems are fully and accurately populated in relation to entities worked on
- Ensure costs related to ad-hoc and bespoke client work are identified and captured

In addition to the duties listed above, the Company Secretarial Administrator may be requested to perform any other ad hoc duties or projects as requested by management or appropriate supervisor.

**PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS**
- Ideally the post holder will be educated to minimum A-Level
- Ideally in the process of taking a relevant professional qualification - although not essential
- Previous experience of administration and company secretarial duties in a Funds and Company environment is essential.

**Operation Excellence**:

- Strives for high standards of delivery to clients
- Has a strong understanding of processes needed to undertake role successfully
- Makes informed judgements and decisions based on practice and precedent
- Decisions will be made within defined limits of authority

**Commercial Awareness**:

- Has a basic understanding of the TMF Groups' service lines and TMF is structured.
- Understands and applies control and risk and governance frameworks consistently
- Is mindful of the TMF values

**Leadership and Resource Management**:

- May have supervisory responsibilities for work carried out by members of the immediate team
- Organises the use of resources to meet expectations and identifies difficulties
- Reviews non-complex work undertaken by more junior team members
- Informally manages expectations of more senior colleagues infrequently

**Interpersonal Skills**:

- Communicates information in a clear and concise manner (verbal and written work) to both internal and external stakeholders
- Able to deal with difficult situations in a calm and diplomatic way

**Client Excellence**:

- Takes ownership of particular clients to ensure a consistent level of service
- Listen actively whilst understanding what relevant questions they should ask and respectfully taking into account global and cultural differences
- Makes it a priority to be accessible and responsive to customers
- Build rapport with clients and use body language and voice techniques effectively
- Evaluates and reports back on client service levels

**Compliance**:

- Acts with the highest level of integrity at all times
- Act in the best interests of TMF (taking into account the interests of TMF customers, where a



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