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Senior Company Secretary

Airwallex· Legal
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SG - SingaporeFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Senior Corporate Secretary responsible for governance, compliance, and company secretarial matters across licensed entities globally. Leads board support, regulatory filings, and entity management from Singapore, ensuring robust governance and coordination with external providers.

Responsibilities

  • Handle the full spectrum of company secretarial matters for licensed entities across different regions
  • Organizing and facilitating board, committee and general meetings, including preparing agenda, resolutions, minutes and presentation materials
  • Maintaining and handling statutory filings and statutory registers
  • Handling group entities’ corporate matters, including incorporation, restructuring, capital injection, winding down and audit support
  • Ensuring timely and accurate regulatory filings
  • Lead the company secretarial function across jurisdictions and coordinate and manage external service providers
  • Maintain and enhance entity management systems and corporate records
  • Advise the board and senior management on governance, risk management, and compliance matters
  • Support entity-level audits and due diligence processes for financing, M&A, and regulatory reviews
  • Act as a key liaison with directors, investors, regulators and cross-functional teams
  • Support the implementation of best practices in data protection, cybersecurity, and technology risk management

Qualifications

  • Chartered Secretary / Chartered Governance Professional
  • Qualified lawyer (Singapore or common law jurisdiction)
  • At least 10–15 years of relevant experience, including significant experience in a regulated financial services or fintech environment
  • Proven track record in supporting boards and senior management in a global or regional corporate structure
  • Experience in a listed business
  • Prior experience managing multi-jurisdictional entities and complex group structures
  • Deep understanding of corporate governance frameworks, regulatory filings, and compliance obligations
  • Experience establishing and maintaining board and committee processes, corporate records and entity management systems
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; able to interact effectively with Board members, investors, regulators and cross-functional teams
  • Strong drafting ability and attention to detail, especially for board papers, resolutions and disclosures
  • High integrity, discretion and sound judgment
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-growth global environment
  • Proactive, hands-on and solutions-oriented

Skills

Required:Board governance and secretarial supportCorporate law and regulatory filings

Benefits

  • Equal opportunity employer
  • Diversity-focused workplace policies (implicit in description)
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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