Director, Leading Corporate Governance

About this role

BlackRock is a leader in investment management, risk management, and advisory services for institutional and retail clients worldwide. BlackRock helps clients meet their goals and overcome challenges with a range of products that include separate accounts, mutual funds, iShares exchange-traded funds, and other pooled investment vehicles.

Role

Lead the Corporate Governance Team (3 individuals) ("EBG"), which is responsible for designing and implementing a robust governance framework to support all regulated and unregulated EMEA parent and subsidiary entities.

Duties

• Act as secretary to the BlackRock Group Limited ("BGL") board and non-executive committees (Audit, Risk, Nominations and Conflicts Oversight).
• Proactively manage all governance aspects of BGL, through the planning and setting of Board/Committee meeting agendas in consultation with EMEA GC, EMEA Exec COO and Chairman.
• Collate and distribute Board/Committee materials.
• Attend, present, and take minutes at Board/Committee meetings.
• Be responsible for the recording and resolution of all action items from Board/Committee meetings.
• Arrange "Non-Executive Director" briefing sessions on relevant topics during the period.
• Ensure and maintain the strong governance and control framework in place for BGL by adherence to all regulatory and statutory obligations.

Provide start to end governance support for all corporate entities (and appropriate oversight where outsourced). The below is a non-exhaustive list:

Board Management

EBG serves as a conduit between the Board, management, and key stakeholders, promoting effective governance, compliance, and communication between stakeholders and the Board, and ensuring that directors receive timely, accurate, and comprehensive information necessary for making strategic decisions and meeting its regulatory obligations.

Key responsibilities in relation to board management include:

• Organising board meetings.
• Record keeping.
• Ensuring the Company follows all relevant legal and regulatory requirements.
• Acting as a liaison between the board, management, and other partners.
• Board performance evaluations.
• Comprehensive board training programme.

Corporate Services

EBG is responsible for managing the administrative and secretarial services for the EMEA Boards, such as managing email communications, correspondence, due diligence and KYC requests, maintaining statutory registers, and ensuring records are kept up to date to ensure transparency and compliance with legal obligations.

EBG is responsible for submitting annual returns and other mandatory filings to the Registrar of Companies or regulatory bodies, to ensure the companies remain in good standing.

Directorship

Senior EBG representatives serve as Directors on several of the EMEA Boards.

Tax Substance

EBG is responsible for ensuring that BlackRock maintains a controlled framework to ensure tax residency across the EMEA Boards.

Others

• Provide company secretarial support for the quarterly cash repatriation process.
• Participate in corporate restructuring projects from a company secretarial perspective.
• Review and respond to general governance and corporate enquiries within BlackRock.

Skills

• Relevant post qualification experience gained either in-house in regulated financial services or experience working with regulated financial services entities in a professional services firm.
• 5 to 8 years' relevant post qualification experience.
• Ability to work independently and to exercise discretion, initiative, and judgement.
• Perform diverse and complex tasks with accuracy and excellent attention to detail.

Education

• ICSA-qualified company secretary; or
• Solicitor qualified in England and Wales or other jurisdictions.

Key personal attributes will also include:

• Desire to work in a high-energy environment with a dedicated commitment to excellence and delivering impact.
• Having a high degree of motivation and self-starting, with a strong ability to multi-task.
• A commitment to completion and delivery.
• Intellectual curiosity is advantageous as it is necessary to understand wide-ranging and demanding topics.

Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including: retirement investment and tools designed to help you in building a sound financial future; access to education reimbursement; comprehensive resources to support your physical health and emotional well-being; family support programs; and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.

Our hybrid work model

BlackRock's hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all.

About BlackRock

At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being.