Legal Counsel Corporate Governance

In this role you will:
• Provide company secretariat and corporate governance services to Swiss Re Europe S.A., Swiss Re Europe Holdings S.A. Swiss Re Management Ltd and Swiss Re International SE branches and/or subsidiaries in Slovakia, respective boards and committees, as well as to other Swiss Re companies, businesses and operations in EMEA;
• Take accountability for the coordination of EMEA legal reporting and CG know-how management and provide general legal advice, advisory services and governance services in EMEA to BU Reinsurance.


Slovakia - Corporate Secretariat
• Take ownership and responsibility for the organisation of board or committee meetings of in scope entities, i.e. timetabling, preparation, organisation and conduct of board and committee meetings, as well as preparation and distribution of board and committee documents; i.e. scheduling meetings with assistants and Logistic, maintain corporate calendar, sending invitations, drafting agenda, compiling and distribution of pre-reading documents via the secured platform iESP, schedule preparation meeting with the chair of Board and committees;
• Take responsibility for taking minutes of all regular and ad-hoc board and committee meetings of the Slovak entities, drafting of circular resolutions and the administration involved in implementing corporate actions; i.e. drafting minutes and action items list as soon as possible after each meeting, organise review and follow-up, arrange for signature of minutes and prepare extracts if required;
• Take responsibility for the administration of company records (physical and electronic), general management of company information (including quarterly update of the internal information system (Englobe)) and general record management including policy repository;
• Take responsibility for company secretariat formalities relating to the approval of annual accounts, change of board/committee members/ branch manager/authorised signatories (including preparation of trade register filings and standard regulatory notification) as well as annual corporate governance certification and/or Board self-assessment and review of policies adopted by the legal entity;
• Organise signing of documents on behalf of Slovak entities and legalisation/notarisation/consularisation/apostille with support from Logistics

EMEA Corporate Governance
Take responsibility for the coordination of EMEA Legal Reporting, including:
• Supporting the creation of a new reporting process including enhanced monitoring of legal developments with support from external counsels
• Coordinating contributions from LR EMEA and other L&C colleagues to LR EMEA's master report (i.e. define and communicate deadlines, prepare templates, send reminders etc)
• Reviewing first drafts of the master report contributions, helping with drafting and editing, analysis prior to submission to the Head of CG/Head of RC and General Counsel for final review and sign-off

EMEA Corporate Governance
• Take responsibility for know-how management and the set-up of a Know-How database with the assistance of the CG Paralegal
• Monitoring of corporate governance developments and best practice in EMEA.