Company Secretarial and Governance Consultant

Job Description & Summary

• At PwC, our people in legal services offer comprehensive legal solutions and advice to internal stakeholders and clients, maintaining compliance with regulations and minimising legal risks. These individuals provide strategic guidance and support across various industries.
• In company secretarial and governance at PwC, you will provide advice and support on corporate governance, compliance, and regulatory matters to enable effective decision-making and transparency within the organisation. Your work will involve maintaining legal and ethical standards for the company.
• Focused on relationships, you are building meaningful client connections, and learning how to manage and inspire others. Navigating increasingly complex situations, you are growing your personal brand, deepening technical expertise and awareness of your strengths.
• You are expected to anticipate the needs of your teams and clients, and to deliver quality. Embracing increased ambiguity, you are comfortable when the path forward isn’t clear, you ask questions, and you use these moments as opportunities to grow.

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Respond effectively to the diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.
• Use a broad range of tools, methodologies and techniques to generate new ideas and solve problems.
• Use critical thinking to break down complex concepts.
• Understand the broader objectives of your project or role and how your work fits into the overall strategy.
• Develop a deeper understanding of the business context and how it is changing.
• Use reflection to develop self awareness, enhance strengths and address development areas.
• Interpret data to inform insights and recommendations.
• Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.

Job summary:

• Responsible for the statutory compliance of a wide variety of clients
• Will work closely with audit teams and clients in performing statutory compliance health checks
• Will report to manager and senior manager

Primary duties (non-negotiable):

• Responsible for the statutory compliance of a wide variety of clients
• Will work closely with audit teams and clients in performing Statutory Compliance Health Checks
• Secondary duties (desirable requirement):
• Provide support to team members and managers

Core skills required:

(non-negotiable, essential skills required for the role, both technical and soft skills)

• Grade 12
• 5 - 10 years in a similar role
• Solid understanding of how to navigate CIPC website

A working knowledge of and ability to complete the following transactions on the CIPC website:

• Director changes
• Change of registered office and postal address
• Change of financial year end
• Resignation and appointment of auditors
• Formation of a Company
• Formation of External Company
• Filing of Annual Returns and supporting documents
• Change of Name of a company
• Change of financial year
• Amendment or substitution of MoI
• Deregistration of a company
• Restoration of Company

Additional Competencies:

Candidate must be able to attend to the following transactions:

• Resignation and appointment of directors/secretaries
• Change of registered office and postal address
• Change of financial year end
• Resignation and appointment of auditors
• Transfer of shares
• Preparation of the AGM minutes, including dividend declaration for a company
• Allotment of shares
• Formation of Company
• Formation of External Company
• Filing of Annual Returns
• Change of Name of a company
• Appointment and resignation of Person Authorized to Accept Service (External Company)
• Change of financial year
• Replacement / Indemnity of Lost Share Certificates
• Increase of Authorized Share Capital
• Buy Back of shares
• Amendment or substitution of MoI
• Restoration of Company
• Arranging board meetings, preparation & distribution of Agenda & board packs and attending of meetings
• Preparation of minutes of meetings
• Attending to statutory compliance health checks/reviews

Other requirements:

Manage client expectations regarding deliverable:

• Negotiate/discuss deadlines and agree on respective roles/responsibilities of both parties
• Furnish client with regular feedback on progress made (e.g. weekly)
• Build strong positive relationships with clients
• Ability to work in a team environment
• Deliver quality work product requiring minimum re-work (almost free of errors)
• Interpret and apply theoretical knowledge to practical assignments
• Demonstrate ability to grasp and apply new technical concepts
• Approach client interaction in an organized manner
• Delivers clear requests for information
• Manage multiple tasks and deadlines, prioritizing time and communicating possible conflicts with manager
• Manage own workflow & meet deadlines with a minimum amount of supervision and support from a manager.