Company Secretary - London, United Kingdom - Greystar Europe

Greystar Europe

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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_About The Role_

This role is for an experienced Company Secretary to work with, and provide support to, the European legal team and wider business.

This will include working closely with the finance, investment, compliance and tax teams within the Greystar business andexternal service providers in the UK and Europe.

This role will report to the Senior Director, Legal.

_Key Responsibilities_

Ensure our corporate entities in the UK and Europe comply with their financial, administrative and legal requirements (including maintaining statutory books, filing necessary documents, informing the registrar of key corporate changes, organising boardmeetings, preparing agendas, creating structure charts and taking minutes).
Work with relevant internal and external advisors to set up and support new corporate entities in the UK and Europe and manage new compliance requirements.
Coordinate with, and be the first point of contact for, company secretarial administrators, including overseeing invoicing and KPI reporting from administrators.
Work with relevant internal stakeholders and external service providers (corporate administrators and AIFM depositaries) in the UK and Europe.
Key coordinator of a central corporate governance document management software system.
Review corporate documents to opine on transactions that require board consent for each entity, board meeting frequency and delegation of authority process.
Support legal, compliance, finance and tax teams with transactions (acquisitions, financings, restructuring) from a corporate administration perspective.
Support the legal team by monitoring relevant legislation and providing corporate governance/regulatory guidance to ensure business compliance.
Manage and respond to inbound "KYC" (know your customer) requests & due diligence processes from lenders, investors and other third parties.
Provide ad hoc assistance to the legal team on a wide range of commercial and real estate issues.
Communicate and work with the legal and compliance team in Europe and the US as needed.
Some travelling might be required.

_About You_
You will be educated to degree level or appropriate professional qualification (such as CGI) or qualified by experience.

You will have proven experience in a company secretarial role with a good understanding of commercial processes, procedures and operationaldrivers.

In addition, you will be able to manage negotiations with a range of stakeholders.

_What We Offer_

We include a range of benefits for our corporate team members, including competitive pension, healthcare, and holiday allowance, amongst others as standard. Please reach out if you are keen to know more._

_About Greystar_

Greystar is a leading, fully integrated real estate company offering expertise in investment management, development, and management of rental housing properties globally. The company's business model is unique in its ability to own, operate, and developmultifamily, student, and senior housing across the globe. Building a global platform with a local presence, Greystar continues to expand its geographic reach around the world, bringing a globally interconnected professional rental housing platform and industryfunded with institutional capital to countries where the sector does not yet exist. Greystar's pan
European platform was established in 2013 and has scaled rapidly, now with investment, operational and development presence in the UK, Ireland, France, theNetherlands, Germany, Austria and Spain._
One of Greystar's core values is Equality, and as such, we continue to pride ourselves on being an equal opportunities employer, accounting for all protected and identifiable characteristics. We truly value diversity of thought, background and of experience. _