Company Secretary

**Company Secretary**
- Permanent, Full-time opportunity
- Kent St, Sydney location
- Hybrid working model

**How will I help?**

As a Company Secretary within the Westpac Group Secretariat team and reporting to the Head of Westpac Secretariat, you will play a crucial role in providing exceptional corporate governance services and maintaining and developing strategic partnerships throughout our business.

**Some of the key accountabilities are**:

- Providing support to the Head of Westpac Secretariat in relation to the Westpac subsidiary Boards and providing practical and professional counsel to the business on all matters of corporate governance.
- Assisting in planning and implementing Group Secretariat continuous improvement and productivity initiatives, including encouraging an environment of innovation, thought leadership and creative thinking.
- Assisting with communications with subsidiary boards and their committees, including the production and dispatch of papers with a consistent professional presentation and promoting papers and communications which are clear, concise, relevant and focussed.
- Attending to ASX announcement lodgements, statutory filings, lodgements with ASIC and overseas regulators and stock exchanges.
- Reviewing and preparing documents in response to regulatory notices, general document requests from regulators and requests from the broader business.

**What’s in it for me?**

You’ll play a significant part of the future of a business that has been around for over 200 years. Our purpose is to create better futures together. So, we’ll back you in the development of your career, internal career prospects, and flexible working. You’ll also keep learning to grow your career, backed by a fantastic team of people with a can-do, supportive structure. Whatever shape your family takes, we offer generous paid and unpaid parental leave for your nominated primary and support carers. This includes leave to organise adoptions, surrogacy, and foster care arrangements. And we continue to pay your super contributions while you take all the time you need to get your new family settled.

**What do I need?**
- 2-3 years of experience as a Company Secretary and preferably within the banking or financial services industry
- Strong understanding of corporate governance principles and the Corporations Act
- Qualification as a Chartered Secretary, lawyer or other relevant tertiary qualifications

**What’s it like to work there?**

We are a collaborative team of passionate people with a shared ambition to make a difference for our customers, our communities and each other. At Westpac, making a difference means creating impact, unlocking our own and each other’s passions, and transformative success stories to create better futures together.

As well as competitive remuneration and a great culture, joining the Westpac family gives you access to a wide range of employee benefits to help you manage your priorities - whether that means family life, work/life balance, ambition to grow or all the little perks in between.

We’ll empower you to shape your career path. Through personalised upskilling, mentoring, and training opportunities, you’re in control of where you start and how you’ll grow.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are proud to have created a culture and work environment that values diversity and flexibility - and champions inclusion.

Hear from some of our people and their experiences working with us.

**How do I apply?**

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