Company Secretary, Pakistan

Job Summary

Uphold exemplary standards of corporate governance while delivering key priorities and initiatives in line with the Group Corporate Secretariat’s performance scorecard. Ensure high-quality, efficient, effective, and sustainable company secretarial practices in Pakistan through proactive management, maintaining strict compliance with relevant Group Policies, and adhering to local legal and regulatory requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the entire board process, ensuring timely distribution of high-quality papers, accurate minute drafting, and proactive follow-up on actions.
• Advise the Chairman and CEO on board/audit committee agendas to ensure directors have the necessary information for decisions and approvals.
• Collaborate with the Regional Head of Corporate Governance and the CEO to develop and execute a robust board succession plan, maintaining an up-to-date capability matrix and independent director watch list.
• Deliver a tailored induction program for new directors within three months of appointment.
• Advise directors on ongoing training related to fiduciary duties, responsibilities, governance issues, strategic priorities, and risk management, maintaining a log of completed trainings.
• Act as a trusted advisor to directors, serving as their primary contact for corporate governance and board matters.
• Implement a robust process to manage conflicts of interest, outside business interests, and associated disclosure obligations.
• Advise and collaborate with the Chairman to conduct annual board evaluations and implement follow-up actions.
• Advise on corporate actions, including Changes to Group Corporate Structure, and act as a trusted advisor to stakeholders, providing guidance and support for related transactions.
• Advise stakeholders on corporate authorities and work with senior management to ensure timely board and committee approvals.
• Ensure senior managers understand the sources of authority framework and the process for obtaining and demonstrating approval authority, including guidance on the Group Authorised Signatory Book, Group Delegated Authorities Manual, and the Guidance Note on Powers of Attorney. Provide timely guidance to the Board and senior management on legislation, banking codes, and corporate governance policies.
• Lead the Company’s engagement in corporate governance consultations, maximizing the Group’s value to regulators and policy makers.
• Lead corporate governance projects and initiatives, fostering an environment of forward planning, prioritization, and efficient work practices. Ensure compliance with the Group Subsidiary Governance Policy and Standards in Pakistan, including all statutory, legal, and regulatory requirements, filings, and disclosures.
• Monitor and ensure adherence to Corporate Governance Regulations and Guidelines, including board composition and director independence.
• Oversee all entities in Blueprint as the Responsible Person (RP), ensuring RPs understand their responsibilities and complete mandatory field changes and compliance reviews on time.
• Guide Accountable Executives in Pakistan to understand their responsibilities and complete six-monthly reports to the CEO.
• Keep records of all constitutional documents and ensure timely filing with relevant authorities.
• Manage corporate governance aspects of audits, inspections, and reviews.
• Efficiently manage shareholder meetings, ensuring approval of management proposals.
• Coordinate with the Share Registrar to handle shareholder matters/complaints promptly.
• Collaborate with the Finance team and stakeholders to ensure timely publication and dispatch of annual reports.
  
  

Skills And Experience

• Experience of working within Financial Services specifically Banking Listed company is preferrable due to regulatory knowledge.
  
  

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together We

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term
  
  

What We Offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.