Overview
Senior Assistant Company Secretary, SC Ventures Jobs in Dubai, UAE/Dubai at Standard Chartered
About SC Ventures
SC Ventures is Standard Chartered’s innovation, fintech investment and ventures arm, focused on building ecosystems around Online Economy & Lifestyle, SMEs & World Trade, Digital Assets, and Sustainability & Inclusion.
Strategy
- Support the SC Ventures Company Secretary in all matters to ensure compliance by SC Ventures and venture companies and directors with local regulatory requirements and Group policies/standards/guidelines.
- Support provision of company secretarial advice and support for projects and transactions within SC Ventures.
- Promote a culture and practice of good conduct of business and adherence to all corporate secretariat policies and standards.
- Provide corporate governance advisory role for the SC Ventures shareholder and venture entities in your portfolio, including compliance with the Venture Governance Policy, the Standard, and Corporate Action Approval Standard.
- Serve as the related-party subject matter expert in SC Ventures.
- Advise on corporate actions across the SC Ventures platform and within the venture companies.
- Provide advisory services for the SC Ventures managed funds across multiple jurisdictions.
Key Responsibilities Business
- Engage and oversee corporate secretarial outsourced service providers on behalf of venture companies.
- Draft minutes of meetings with or without the assistance of corporate secretarial outsourced service providers.
- Coordinate signing of transaction and statutory documentation in accordance with local requirements.
- Prepare board and shareholder resolutions, ensuring all relevant documents and filings pursuant to the resolutions are made.
- Maintain soft copies of all final and executed/signed documents in a shared server.
- Maintain and safeguard physical documents and registers (where necessary), ensuring files are up to date.
- Ensure all corporate secretarial information is updated into Blueprint.
- Provide input into CAAFs.
- Support SC Appointees and Responsible Persons in updating Blueprint and acting as RP for local subsidiaries and the SC Ventures shareholder, as required.
Processes
- Act as Responsible Person (RP) for certain venture entities incorporated under SC Ventures and investments made by the SC Ventures managed funds.
- Act as RP for the SC Ventures shareholding entities.
- Maintain contact with Operating Member or his/her designated key member of all associated/joint venture entities to be informed of any change or update to corporate information of these underlying entities and to update Blueprint accordingly.
- Act as a point of contact in SC Ventures regarding corporate information that may be required by members of SC Ventures or other stakeholders in the Group.
Board Support
- Assist SC Ventures Company Secretary and/or the dedicated venture Company Secretary in arranging and conducting board meetings for the SC Ventures shareholding entities and entities in your portfolio, including all aspects of board logistics (e.g., arranging off‑sites, overseas meetings, audio/video conferences, and running meeting formalities).
- Collate, prepare and publish board packs utilizing Board Intelligence for the entities in your portfolio and ensure compliance with the Board Rolling Agenda.
- Coordinate and follow through the execution of all board resolutions and minutes, including any underlying documents approved to be signed.
- Obtain approvals and document sign‑offs from shareholders of venture entities on behalf of entities in your portfolio.
- Assist in the onboarding and induction of INEDs and NEDs for SCV entities.
- Maintain a systematic database of all venture entities board meeting details (attendance, agenda, board papers, minutes and resolutions).
Regulatory & Business Conduct
- Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
- Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank, ensuring compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
- Effectively and collaboratively identify, elevate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
Key Stakeholders
- SC Ventures Company Secretary
- SC Ventures…
Title: Senior Assistant Company Secretary, SC Ventures
Company: Standard Chartered
Location: Dubai, UAE/Dubai
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