Corporate Governance Legal Assistant

In this role you will provide a broad range of corporate secretariat services, administrative and legal support to the team Corporate Governance EMEA in respect of legal entities located in EMEA and their branches and/or subsidiaries. This will involve also assistance and support activities related to board and committee meetings.

Your role will be:

- Organization of board or committee meetings (e.g. sending out calendar invites, updating the invites, booking meeting rooms) and drafting of documents for these meetings (e.g. agenda and resolutions) and execution of follow-up actions;
- Performance of corporate secretariat formalities (e.g. relating to the approval of annual accounts and changes in the board and management composition, incl. collection of internal approvals, preparation of statutory filings);
- Administration of company records and general record management;
- Arrange / support corporate governance certification and/or board self-assessment process;
- Support internal signing process (e.g. collect signatures in line with internal Swiss Re requirements);
- Handling requests for corporate documents from internal clients, auditors or regulators (e.g. KYC requests);
- Develop and maintain templates and standard procedures for corporate secretariat;
- Help with legal monitoring in relevant legislation and the regulatory environment.

About the Team

The Corporate Governance EMEA team is a multi-jurisdictional team composed of 9 Legal Counsels and Company Secretaries based in Bratislava, Luxembourg, London and Zurich, providing corporate governance and corporate secretariat services to legal entities of the Business Unit Reinsurance and of Group Operations in EMEA and their branches.

Dedicated partner of board and committee members of in scope entities, the team is accountable for compliance of in-scope entities with corporate governance laws, regulations and internal requirements.

Key activities are: corporate restructuring, legal entity creation, life cycle management, corporate secretariat, regulatory filings and license application and maintenance, internal and external regulatory investigations, legal monitoring, providing awareness and training to board and committee members and outside counsel management on behalf of the entities.

*We are required by law to disclose basic wage component (minimum salary) for the advertised positions. We carefully consider your professional competencies, qualifications and experience in our compensation package and/or when offering you other positions. Our compensation philosophy is to pay fairly, also considering market situation and the value employees may bring to Swiss Re.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our company. Our aim is to live visible and invisible diversity – diversity of age, race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, physical abilities, personalities and experiences – at all levels and in all functions and regions. We also collaborate in a flexible working environment, providing you with a compelling degree of autonomy to decide how, when and where to carry out your tasks.

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