Company Secretarial, Assistant Vice President

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Job Description & Responsibilities

As this is a newly created role within a new function the successful candidate will need to be a hands-on individual who can work collaboratively across Legal & Compliance Finance Tax and the broader business to help implement a strategy set by senior leadership. The role will support the development of a consistent and scalable operating model for European corporate governance activities with a focus on improving execution strengthening governance and driving greater addition the individual will oversee the day-to-day delivery of European company secretarial and entity management activities working closely with both internal stakeholders and external service providers. Examples of the work covered include:

Providing Oversight and Strategic Advice on Corporate Governance Matters

• Support the execution and ongoing development of the Company Secretarial function across the EMEA region
• Oversee day-to-day entity management and related corporate governance activities across EMEA
• Manage external service providers delivering company secretarial and other entity management services and monitor the quality and consistency of their support.
• Conduct regular reviews of entity management frameworks governance processes and service delivery arrangements to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Lead budgeting and benchmarking exercises and in collaboration with relevant internal stakeholders support the review and testing of systems processes and controls.
• Provide strategic input on systems processes and potential technology solutions to enhance governance improve operational effectiveness and deliver financial efficiencies.
• Act as the EMEA escalation point for entity management matters and documentation execution issues.

General

• Serve as a key point of contact on entity management and corporate governance matters for the EMEA CoSec team as well as Finance Tax and global entity management stakeholders.
• Support the coordination of EMEA house quarterly board meetings and related governance deliverables.
• Project manage new entity management and corporate governance initiatives across the region.
• Provide support on ad hoc and time-sensitive transactions where entity management input is required.

Based in London the successful applicant will support the Blackstone EMEA offices as part of the Legal & Compliance team. This is an exciting opportunity for a bright ambitious hard-working individual.

Ideally the individual would possess the following skill sets:

• 5 years of entity management and company secretarial work with a leading service provider or at a leading asset manager or financial institution
• Ability to manage variety of stakeholders
• Excellent written and spoken English language skills required
• International experience preferred

Blackstone seeks to hire individuals who are highly motivated intelligent and have demonstrated excellence in prior addition to the qualifications outlined above the successful candidate should have strong communication skills a demonstrated ability to write effectively and a desire to work in a team environment often under pressure.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin or any other protected category.

The duties and responsibilities described here are not exhaustive and additional assignments duties or responsibilities may be required of this position. Assignments duties and responsibilities may be changed at any time with or without notice by Blackstone in its sole discretion.

Blackstone is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race color creed religion sex pregnancy national origin ancestry citizenship status age marital or partnership status sexual orientation gender identity or expression disability genetic predisposition veteran or military status status as a victim of domestic violence a sex offense or stalking or any other class or status in accordance with applicable federal state and local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including but not limited to hiring placement promotion termination transfer leave of absence compensation and training. All Blackstone employees including but not limited to recruiting personnel and hiring managers are required to abide by this policy.

If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete your application please contact Human Resources at (US) 44 (0)(EMEA) or(APAC).

Depending on the position you may be required to obtain certain securities licenses if you are in a client facing role and/or if you are engaged in the following:

• Attending client meetings where you are discussing Blackstone products and/or and client questions;

• Marketing Blackstone funds to new or existing clients;

• Supervising or training securities licensed employees;

• Structuring or creating Blackstone funds/products; and

• Advising on marketing plans prepared by a sales team or developing and/or contributing information for marketing materials.

Note: The above list is not the exhaustive list of activities requiring securities licenses and there may be roles that require review on a case-by-case basis. Please speak with your Blackstone Recruiting contact with any questions.

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