Transaction Manager - Legal, Company Secretarial & Compliance

Overview:
An exciting opportunity to join a thriving business undergoing growth.  The successful candidate will join an expanding team and will be responsible for managing a variety of corporate transactions and corporate governance tasks, ensuring regulatory compliance, and providing a high-level service for a portfolio of clients. 

 

Responsibilities include:

  • Managing the delivery of transaction services, while building strong relationships with a varied portfolio of clients.
  • Acting as an Irish resident director for special purpose vehicle (“SPV”) mandates.
  • Collaborating with internal contacts (i.e. Financial Services Team and Directors), to achieve client objectives.
  • Providing expertise and guidance in relation to capital markets transactions, acting as a point of escalation for internal and external contacts/stakeholders.
  • Performing corporate secretarial tasks both internally and across the client portfolio.
  • Ensuring that the Company meets client obligations and ensuring that all tasks required to effectively close a transaction, update statutory registers, complete filings with the Companies Registration Office or prepare materials for scheduled board meetings within required timelines are completed efficiently, professionally and to the agreed deadlines.
  • Managing the setting up of SPVs/client companies for structured finance, aviation leasing and global restructuring transactions among others.
  • Reviewing and executing legal agreements associated with structured finance, aviation leasing and global restructuring transactions from the perspective of the SPVs/client companies.
  • Assisting the Compliance Team with onboarding and ongoing due diligence process in respect of client companies.
  • Ensuring that all transactions comply with relevant laws, regulations, and company policies.
  • Liaising with external parties, such as legal and tax advisors, investment managers, trustees and agency groups, arranging banks and others to achieve client objectives.
  • Adhering to internal Company policies and procedures and ensuring compliance with Company risk and control framework and processes.
  • Assisting with key projects to align day to day tasks with new regulatory requirements from the initiation and planning stages through execution and completion
  • Ensuring that ethical standards and human rights principles are upheld across all areas of responsibility.

 

Skills/Experience
  • Educated to degree level (or equivalent) in law, business, finance or other relevant field.
  • Ideally 2-3+ years of work experience in a financial services environment.
  • Experience of working with or within a corporate secretarial function or team.
  • Proven track record of successfully managing complex corporate transactions.
  • Strong understanding of corporate services, transaction management, corporate governance and regulatory compliance.
  • Proactive, able to work autonomously, make decisions and use own initiative and judgment.