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Job Description
Meta seeks an experienced and highly-motivated International Corporate Legal Professional to join the International Governance Team based in Singapore. Reporting to the Director and Associate General Counsel - Global Corporate, you will be very comfortable working on your own initiative, and as part of a global team, to deliver highly efficient company secretarial services and governance support to a diverse portfolio of legal entities in the Asia-Pacific region. In addition to providing practical guidance to our cross-functional partners in finance, tax, treasury and legal in connection with the corporate compliance and legal entity management for Meta's legal entities in this region, the successful candidate will have a keen interest in creating scalable processes which exploit the wide range of technology solutions available to this team.
- Act as the point of contact for all corporate legal matters in the APAC region.
- Leading and overseeing the implementation of the governance processes and frameworks in legal entities spanning across Asia-Pac region.
- Supporting corporate restructuring including capital contributions, new entity incorporation, license expansion, shareholder changes and liquidation of the dormant subsidiaries.
- Arranging subsidiary Board and shareholder meetings, preparing resolutions and associated documents, co-ordinating the passing of resolutions by directors and shareholders and keeping up to date minute books.
- Responsible for compliance with the applicable corporate laws in each of the legal jurisdictions including filing of annual accounts, returns, license renewals, director changes and ad-hoc event driven changes in the legal entities arising due to corporate changes.
- Support in pre, during and post board meeting related work including upload of all agenda, pre-reads on the online board portal and preparation of minutes.
- Ensuring the statutory corporate documents, licenses, registrations, and corporate records of the legal entities are being properly maintained, and that our entities meet their corporate statutory filing obligations.
- Responsible for providing all secretarial documents to statutory auditors and providing all clarifications from a company secretarial perspective.
- To support the wider team transformation agenda by developing and implementing process improvements to create efficiencies in working with the cross-functional partners.
- Keeping track of key legislatives changes in the corporate laws and from time to time assist in assessing its specific impact and preparing an action plan for the Company.
- Arranging for notarisation and legalisation of documents where required.
- Maintaining our online subsidiary database (Diligent Entities) for the in-scope legal entities.
- Managing external counsel engagements and liaising with the external company secretary suppliers.
- Degree in law and/or accounting and relevant legal professional / company secretarial certification.
- Minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience in multinational companies handling corporate governance matters across APAC countries.
- Ability to analyze complex corporate legal matters and create and advocate for a coherent strategy for implementation.
- Demonstrated ability to be proactive, self-driven with the capacity to work autonomously in a dynamic work environment.
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional partners at all levels of the organisation.
- Attention to detail and excellent organisational and problem-solving skills
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills.
- Excellent working knowledge of Diligent or similar legal entity management database
- Experience in the use of case management systems and other reporting tools.