Deputy Company Secretary

What will you do?

Santam has a position available for a Deputy Company Secretary who will be based in Tygervalley. What will make you successful in this role?

The successful incumbent will provide company secretarial support to the subsidiary companies and relevant departments and business units within the Santam Group. The position will also assist the group company secretary regarding work relating to the Santam Board and Executive Committee.

Duties will include, but not limited to
Ensuring statutory compliance (with the Companies Act and related legislation), including, but not limited to, the filing of annual returns and lodgement of statutory forms at CIPC.
Assisting with the co-ordination of board and committee meetings, including the preparation of agendas, collation and presentation of meeting packs and meeting related logistics.
Compiling minutes of various board and committee meetings, management meetings and governance forum meetings.
Maintaining the directors’ declaration of interest register.
Assisting with managing the company secretarial budget.
Safekeeping and updating company records and share certificates and ancillary registers.
Timeous review of various charters and policies.
In-house and external ad hoc requests, including but not limited to drafting of board and shareholder resolutions, completion of FICA requests, company information requests and general enquiries.
Providing support to the various staff share schemes and empowerment trusts.
Supporting the maintenance of the register of shareholders, shareholder communication, supporting the process regarding the payment of dividends and monitoring changes in share ownership of the company.
Compliance with the JSE Listings Requirements and facilitating SENS announcements.
Communication and notifications to Directors and selected staff to ensure memorandums on trading protocol and closed periods are updated and circulated periodically.
Assisting with ad hoc projects, to improve processes, compliance, corporate governance and investor relations matters. Qualifications and Experience

LLB (Admitted Attorney)
Working knowledge of the Companies Act and King Code of Governance
Knowledge of the JSE Listings Requirements will be advantageous
4 years’ experience in a similar role
Financial services industry experience would be ideal Skills and Knowledge

Excellent communication and administration skills
Excellent command of the English language (written and verbal)
Computer literacy (Full MSOffice Suite)
Presentation skills
Business acumen
Broad knowledge of the financial services industry relating to compliance, risk management and internal controls
Companies Act Core Competencies Cultivates innovation - Contributing through others Customer focus - Contributing through others Drives results - Contributing through others Collaborates - Contributing through others Being resilient - Contributing through others About The Company

Santam is the market leader in the general insurance industry in Southern Africa. We are a large, diversified, expanding and transforming company and whilst based in South Africa, we are rapidly moving into a number of emerging markets, both in Africa and Asia.

Our success is rooted in our passion for our clients and everything we do is centered on our delivery of Insurance Good and Proper. We’re about people. People drive our business so it follows that we want to recruit the best people possible whether they work for us permanently or for a short time as temporary employees.

At Santam we are committed to transformation and embracing diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse workplace with employment equity as a key goal to create an inclusive workforce, representative of the demographics of our society. In achieving our employment equity goals we give preference to applicants from the designated groups in alignment with the Divisions Employment Equity targets.