Solicitor (Contract) (PQE 3 – 5 years)

Company:MMC Corporate

Description:

We are seeking a talented individual to join our Corporate Secretariat team at Marsh McLennan (MMC) on a fixed term contract.  This is a hybrid role that has a requirement of working at least three days a week in the office.  As a progressive employer, MMC Pacific acknowledges the role may be situated in or near any capital city in Australia. 

The Corporate Secretariat (Pacific) team comprises seven governance professionals, including this role.  Together, they deliver a range of company secretarial services for boards across the MMC Pacific region for Mercer, Marsh, Guy Carpenter and Oliver Wyman, in Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Fiji.  The team assumes responsibility for all corporate governance processes and provides advice on relevant corporate governance and prudential topics. The Corporate Secretariat (Pacific) team are a key interface with Directors, the People Leadership Team, and other senior leaders within the MMC Pacific business. 

Reporting to the Corporate Secretary, Pacific, the Solicitor is a key member of the Marsh McLennan (MMC) Corporate Secretariat (Pacific) team and is responsible for the proper functioning of a number of subsidiaries within the MMC group in the Pacific (Australia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and New Zealand). Several of the subsidiaries hold Australian Financial Services Licenses (AFSL). 

The Solicitor (Contract) is a governance leader within the team with overall corporate administration accountability for all MMC Pacific subsidiaries excluding Mercer Investments (Australia) Limited and Mercer Superannuation (Australia) Limited.  The role actively participates in, or manages, corporate transactions and activities from a governance / corporate administration perspective (including M&A, capital re-organizations, dividends, facilitation of approvals for statutory accounts and solvency resolutions), manages a busy schedule of meetings, takes responsibility for maintaining statutory registers, and submits all corporate-related ASIC lodgments (including 484, 388).  In a fast-paced, dynamic environment, this role provides corporate governance support to enable Directors to discharge their duties effectively and maintains the legal good standing of our entities. This is a mid-level position within a busy and complex secretariat, providing support to the Corporate Secretary (Pacific) and subsidiary Directors in multiple jurisdictions across the MMC business.

We will count on you to:

• Act as the Corporate Secretarial lead in corporate transactions
• Manage board meeting matters
• Coordinate corporate administration and regulatory filings
• Drive project management and quality management
• Lead and manage process and system development, enhancement, and training
• Other Secretariat ad hoc duties as required.

What you need to have:

• Bachelor of Laws (PQE 3 – 5 years). 
• Member of the Governance Institute of Australia (Preferable)
• Experience in company secretarial practice, preferably in a financial services or consultancy firm preferably across multi-jurisdictions. 
• Corporations law, ASIC Regulations, and meeting administration experience.
• Technical acumen and proactive, continuous improvement attitude.
• A flexible and agile work style, an ability to adapt to changing circumstances and effectively manage numerous competing priorities.

What makes you stand out?

• Excellent interpersonal skills:  Builds appropriate, constructive, and effective business relationships throughout the organization; uses diplomacy and tact; is approachable; communicates clearly accurately, and consistently both verbally and in written matters. Employs the principles of active listening and encourages feedback from others. 
• Teamwork:  Enjoys working in a small high caliber team with high visibility to senior stakeholders.  Able to work and liaise with multiple teams and stakeholders, deal with strict deadlines, able to prioritize workloads and help other team members to achieve team goals. 
• Action Orientation:  Achieves results set by self and others, meets timelines, pushes to achieve stretch goals, and demonstrates enthusiasm, persistence, and tenacity. 
• Intellectual Capacity:  Deals with new concepts and complexity comfortably.  Examines problems carefully and thoroughly and understands their interdependencies.  Can pull information and ideas from many sources and see the importance of many factors. 
• Work style:  Ability to work in a dynamic and fast-moving environment with flexibility to adapt work schedules to meet multiple priorities.  Continual focus on process improvement and digitization.  Able to discuss confidential and commercially sensitive matters

Why join our team:

• We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work and supportive leaders.
• We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have impact for colleagues, clients and communities.
• Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being.

Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC) is a global leader in risk, strategy and people, advising clients in 130 countries across four businesses: Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer and Oliver Wyman. With annual revenue of $24 billion and more than 90,000 colleagues, Marsh McLennan helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit marshmclennan.com, or follow on LinkedIn and X.Marsh McLennan is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age, background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Marsh McLennan is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh McLennan colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.