# Company Secretarial Adviser

**Company**: Shell
**Location**: India
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Energy

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## Description

The Company Secretarial Adviser will provide company secretarial services to Shell entities across multiple jurisdictions. The ideal candidate will have a Company Secretarial qualification or a background as a corporate lawyer with at least five years of company secretarial experience within a fast-paced global or highly matrixed multinational company.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Support Directors of Shell entities and senior internal stakeholders with company secretarial matters

- Advise on internal governance procedures and governance best practices

- Organize and conduct Board Meetings, including drafting proposals, collecting and distributing papers, and producing minutes

- Maintain Action Items List from Board meetings and track completion of actions

- Act as corporate governance compliance officer for Shell entities globally

- Provide advice and guidance on company law and company secretarial practice

- Manage junior team members and oversee their deliverables

- Re-calibrate and reallocate workload as priorities change

**Requirements:**

- Qualified Company Secretary (or equivalent) with a minimum of 5 years post-qualification experience

- Demonstrated track record in subsidiary management roles

- Native or advanced level English skills; other language skills, in addition to English, are preferred

- Ability to effectively manage relationships with key stakeholders

- Learning agility, conceptual thinking, problem-solving, and analytical capability

- Proactive, forward-thinking, and innovative, with excellent planning and organization skills

**Technical Skills:**

- Strong knowledge of company secretarial practices and procedures

- Experience with completing corporate filings in many jurisdictions

- Proficiency in GEMS, Microsoft Word, Power Automate, PowerPoint, Power BI, SharePoint, Docusign, Diligent Entities, Service Now, and CoPilot

**What We Offer:**

- Opportunity to develop skills and grow in an environment that values honesty, integrity, and respect

- Collaborate with experienced colleagues and work on the energy transition

- Continuously grow transferable skills and gain access to a wide range of training and development programs

- Achieve balance in a values-led culture that encourages being the best version of oneself

- Join an organization working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world

## Skills

### Required
- Company Secretarial
- Corporate Law
- Governance
- Compliance
- Leadership
- Communication
- Project Management
- Microsoft Office
- GEMS

### Nice to have
- Other languages
- Automation tools
- Data insights
- Technology
- Process improvement

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