Subsidiary Governance Manager

Reporting to the Senior Assistant Company Secretary in the Legal and Professional Advisory team, the Manager, Subsidiary Governance is primarily responsible for the development, implementation and monitoring of subsidiary governance policies, processes and procedures to support the life cycle, compliance and operationalisation of RWS’s global entities.

This role requires a blend of technical experience, project management skills, the ability to create and organise policies and procedures, as well as interpersonal skills to support and influence stakeholders with governance framework implementation across RWS in line with the company’s strategic priorities and growth objectives.

About RWS Legal

In joining RWS’s Legal and Professional Advisory team you will play an instrumental part in supporting the world’s leading provider of technology-enabled language, content, and intellectual property services. RWS has growing revenues of over £750m through a combination of value accretive acquisitions and organic growth and a current market capitalization of £1.3bn. The Legal and Professional Advisory team, led by our General Counsel and Company Secretary, Jane Hyde, includes the Legal, Company Secretarial, Data Privacy and ESG functions which provide critical business partnering to our Divisional operations and help drive the Group’s risk management, regulatory, governance and sustainability agendas. You will be part of a diverse and international team working across our global operations which span a footprint of over 100 legal entities in 43 different countries worldwide.  
 
It’s a very exciting time to join RWS for an individual who enjoys driving change and making an impact in a dynamic environment. As part of the overall RWS business strategy we are making a significant investment in upgrading our systems and processes to deliver enhanced reporting and control and strengthening our risk and governance frameworks.

Key Responsibilities

• Supporting on the implementation of outsourced global entity managed services provider(s) to manage global entity compliance and oversight, and managing ongoing service delivery
• Overseeing annual compliance for global entities with internal stakeholders (finance, tax, treasury, legal, HR)
• Partner and foster a culture of collaboration with relevant functions and proactively manage issues and challenges that may arise
• Monitor, track and report on compliance with local regulation and RWS subsidiary governance framework
• Deliver company secretarial compliance for UK subsidiary entities, including drafting minutes
• Support in the development of RWS’s subsidiary governance framework
• Taking the lead in managing statutory records for global entities and developing process for regular verification
• Support functional training and awareness, visibility of Legal & Professional Advisory’s role in governance and risk management
• Support with all aspects of corporate administration including document execution, updates to authorised signatories, notarisation/legalisation documents, KYC/information requests
• Project support (entity rationalisation, tax/treasury transactions)

Skills & Experience

• Educated to degree level (ideally, but not essential) and either ACG qualified or graduate.
• Demonstratable experience of managing entity governance and compliance in multiple jurisdictions, ideally gained within a large group secretariat or global professional services provider
• Good technical knowledge of UK companies law
• Proficient in global entity management software tools (Kube, Diligent Entities, GEMS) and Microsoft Office for collaboration and meetings, Visio/Adobe Professional, UK Companies House e-filings
• Experience in organising and servicing subsidiary governance meetings
• Organised with excellent attention to detail
• Ability to build effective and collaborative working relationships
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Resourceful, action-oriented with the ability to get things done and overcome obstacles
• Ability to work effectively and independently in a fast-paced environment
• Proactive and driven, with a strong work ethic and integrity
• Client centric, commercially focused

At RWS, we’re here for one purpose: unlocking global understanding.

As a unique, world-leading provider of technology-enabled language, content, and intellectual property services, we remove the barriers to communication to make global connection possible. Our unrivalled experience and deep understanding of language have been developed over more than 60 years. As we look to shape the future, our ambition is to create a world where understanding is universal for everyone.

We work with over 80% of the world’s top 100 brands, more than three-quarters of Fortune’s 20 ‘Most Admired Companies’ and almost all the top pharmaceutical companies, investment banks, law firms and patent filers. Our client base spans Europe, Asia Pacific and North and South America. Our 65+ global locations across five continents service clients in the automotive, chemical, financial, legal, medical, pharmaceutical, technology and telecommunications sectors.   

If you like the idea of working with smart people who are passionate about breaking down language barriers and giving back to their communities, then you’ll love life at RWS. Our work fundamentally recognizes the value of every language and culture. So, we celebrate difference, we are inclusive and believe that diversity makes us strong.

We want every employee to grow as an individual and excel in their career. In return, we expect all our people to live by the values that unite us: to partner with colleagues and clients, to adopt a pioneering spirit, to be positive in progressing the work we do, and always to deliver what we promise. 

RWS Values

Get the 3Ps right – Partner, Pioneer, Progress – and we´ll Deliver together as One RWS.

For further information, please visit: RWS   

RWS embraces DEI and promotes equal opportunity, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind. RWS is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at RWS are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, religion, nationality, ethnicity, sex, age, disability, or sexual orientation. RWS will not tolerate discrimination based on any of these characteristics

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