Company Secretary | Tygerfalls, Cape Town

PSG Konsult

Location
Cape Town, Western Cape
Minimum qualification
Bachelor's degree
Closing date

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In brief

**Overview** This is an explanation of the Company Secretary role at PSG Konsult, located in Tygerfalls, Cape Town. The position primarily involves comprehensive management of board and committee meetings, ensuring stringent statutory and corporate governance compliance, and handling various legal and administrative duties for the group's operations. The role also extends to investor relations and adherence to JSE Listing Requirements across multiple jurisdictions. **What you will do** * Manage the meeting process for numerous board and committee meetings. * Coordinate and manage board and committee meetings, including preparing agendas, collating and professionally presenting meeting packs, attending, and taking minutes. * Lead in confirming logistics for board and committee meetings, arranging dates, times, places, facilities, refreshments, video-conference, and telecoms. * Provide guidance to directors on their duties, responsibilities, and powers. * Report to the board any non-compliance by the company or a director with the MoI, company rules, or the Companies Act. * Carry out statutory functions and ensure statutory compliance with the Companies Act and other regulations, including filing annual returns and submissions/lodgements at CIPC. * Ensure corporate governance best practice and compliance. * Ensure Group companies comply with the Companies Act, JSE Listings Requirements, and other industry regulations and best practices like King IV. * Maintain the directors' declaration of interests register. * Maintain the declaration of the associates register. * Maintain email distribution groups. * Safeguard and update company records. * Handle legal administration. * Process BEE certificate requests. * Ensure board and committee charters and terms of reference are kept up to date. * Maintain the Group Structure Chart. * Maintain the Group Companies' Information log, Divisional Board of Directors and Committees structure, and update letterheads. * Maintain the Annual Returns Log, ensuring timely filing with CIPC and working with delegates for other jurisdictions (e.g., Namibia, Guernsey, Malta, Mauritius, UK). * Maintain Group Industry Body feedback. * Address in-house and external ad hoc items and requests, including drafting board and shareholder resolutions, FICA requests, company information requests, and general enquiries. * Take initiative in Investor Relations matters, including website improvements, communication, email distribution lists, events, and announcements. * Coordinate and arrange the Annual General Meeting, and draft AGM resolutions for underlying group companies. * Maintain updated directors FICA. * Manage communication and notifications to Directors, Public Officers, and Selective Staff, ensuring trading protocol and closed period memorandums are updated and circulated. * Ensure compliance with JSE Listing Requirements, including SENS announcements. * Work closely with Group Finance. * Work closely with transfer secretaries Computershare, maintaining the combined share register, shareholder communication, and dividend payment process. * Assist with drafting sensitive Letters/Memorandums as required. * Assist and initiate ad hoc projects, including improving processes, compliance, corporate governance, shareholder communication, and investor relations matters. * Work accurately and fast under pressure, meeting tight deadlines. **Requirements (from the original advert)** * LLB degree or relevant qualification; CIS qualification is an advantage. * A minimum of three (3) years’ work experience within the financial services industry with exposure to legal and/or company secretarial duties. * Working knowledge of the Companies Act and Corporate Governance. * Knowledge of the JSE Listings. * Self-starter. * Microsoft Office including SharePoint and board pack PDF collation and presentation skills. * Advanced minute-taking skills. * Planning/organising/prioritising and co-ordinating skills. * Interpersonal skills. * Advanced communication skills (verbal and written); attention to detail. * Problem-solving. * Industry-specific knowledge, Analytical skills. * Resilience and adaptability; management skills. **Who should apply** The ideal candidate should possess an LLB degree or a relevant qualification, with a CIS qualification being advantageous. They must have a minimum of three years of work experience in the financial services industry, specifically with exposure to legal and/or company secretarial duties. Essential requirements include a strong working knowledge of the Companies Act, Corporate Governance, and JSE Listings. The successful applicant will be a self-starter with advanced minute-taking skills, excellent planning, organizing, prioritizing, and coordinating abilities. They must demonstrate strong interpersonal skills, advanced verbal and written communication with keen attention to detail, problem-solving capabilities, industry-specific knowledge, and analytical skills. Furthermore, resilience, adaptability, and management skills are crucial for this role, as is the ability to work accurately and efficiently under pressure to meet tight deadlines. Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including SharePoint and board pack PDF collation and presentation, is also required. **Deadline** Not specified **Reference** Original posting: https://www.myjobmag.co.za/job/company-secretary-tygerfalls-cape-town-psg-konsult-ltd Source: myjobmag

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  • At least 3 years of experience.
  • Microsoft Office

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Job description

Responsibilities: * A key part of the function involves managing the meeting process for the large number of board and committee meetings. * Co-ordinate and manage board and committee meetings, ranging from the preparation of agendas, collation and professional presentation of meeting packs through to attendance and taking of minutes at the various group board and committee meetings. * Take the lead in confirming logistics for board and committee meetings, working with directors and/or committee members to agree mutually convenient dates, times, and places to meet; arranging suitable facilities-rooms, refreshments, video-conference, and telecoms. * Providing the directors collectively and individually with guidance as to their duties, responsibilities and powers. * Reporting to the board any failure on the part of the company or a director to comply with the MoI or rules of the company or the Companies Act. * Carrying out the company’s statutory functions and ensuring statutory compliance with the Companies Act and others, to include, but not limited to, the filing of annual returns and submissions and lodgements at CIPC. * Corporate governance best practice and compliance. * Ensure that the Group companies are compliant with the Companies Act, JSE Listings Requirements, and other industry regulations and best practices, such as King IV. * Maintain the directors' declaration of interests register. * Maintain the declaration of the associates register. * Maintain email distribution groups. * Safekeeping and updating of company records. * Legal administration. * BEE certificate requests. * Ensure that the board and committee charters and terms of reference are kept up to date. * Maintenance of Group Structure Chart. * Maintenance of Group Companies' Information log, Divisional Board of Directors and Committees structure and the updating of letterheads. * Maintain Annual Returns Log: ensure that all Annual Returns are filed timeously, by filing with CIPC, as well as working closely with Company Secretarial delegates/representatives, to ensure the same for other jurisdictions, such as Namibia, Guernsey, Malta, Mauritius and the United Kingdom. * Maintain Group Industry Body feedback. * In-house and external ad hoc items and requests, to include but not be limited to drafting of board and shareholder resolutions, FICA requests, company information requests, general enquiries. * Investor Relations: taking the initiative and being involved in Investor Relations matters, to include, but not limited to, website improvements, communication, email distribution lists, events and announcements. * Coordinate and arrange the Annual General Meeting, as well as the drafting of AGM resolutions for the underlying companies within the group. * Maintain updated directors FICA. * Communication and notifications to Directors, Public Officers, and Selective Staff, and ensure memorandums on trading protocol and closed periods are updated and circulated periodically. * Compliance with JSE Listing Requirements, to include but not limited to SENS announcements. * Working closely with Group Finance. * Working closely with the transfer secretaries Computershare, being responsible for, amongst other matters, maintaining the combined share register, shareholder communication, dividend payment process, etc. * Assist with drafting sensitive Letters/Memorandums as and when required. * Assist and initiate ad hoc projects, to include but not limited to improving processes, compliance, corporate governance, shareholder communication and investor relations matters. * Working accurately and fast under pressure and meeting tight deadlines. Minimum requirements: * LLB degree or relevant qualification; CIS qualification is an advantage * A minimum of three 3 years’ work experience within the financial services industry with exposure to legal and/or company secretarial duties * Working knowledge of the Companies Act and Corporate Governance. Knowledge of the JSE Listings Competencies required: * Self-starter * Microsoft Office including SharePoint and board pack PDF collation and presentation skills * Advanced minute-taking skills * Planning/organising/ prioritising and co-ordinating skills * Interpersonal skills * Advanced communication skills verbal and written; attention to detail * Problem-solving * Industry-specific knowledge, Analytical skills * Resilience and adaptability; management skills

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