General Counsel Global Entity Governance
hace 2 meses
**ABOUT UNILEVER**
With 3.4 billion people in over 190 countries using our products every day, Unilever is a business that makes a real impact on the world. Work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We are driven by our purpose: to make sustainable living commonplace, and it is our belief that doing business the right way drives superior performance. At the heart of what we do is our people - we believe that when our people work with purpose, we will create a better business and a better world.
At Unilever, your career will be a unique journey, grounded in our inclusive, collaborative, and flexible working environment. We don’t believe in the ‘one size fits all’ approach and instead we will equip you with the tools you need to shape your own future.
**JOB PURPOSE**
- The role is a part of the Corporate Legal, Governance and Corporate Secretaries team.
- The role has the responsibility for the management of Unilever UK subsidiaries from a corporate governance perspective and will include all global entities over time.
- This includes entity compliance, assisting with board meetings, managing subsidiary entities’ governance and intra-group re-organisations.
- The role also assists with general corporate governance matters, which involves liaising with other business stakeholders such as Treasury, Legal, Finance, Pensions, UK Governance Leadership team and Unilever Leadership Executive members.
- Overseeing an external provider in respect of the global legal entity management and working alongside the external provider and other relevant senior stakeholders including on the rationalisation of legal entities.
**WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE**
**Legal Entity Management (LEM)**
- Attending and coordinating board meetings of the UK subsidiary entities and advising from a governance perspective. Taking meeting minutes and ensuring circulation to relevant stakeholders.
- Attending the Governance Leadership Team meeting on a quarterly basis and advising from a company secretarial perspective.
- Coordinating the induction and training of Directors, including preparation of relevant materials in collaboration with UK Legal.
- Working closely with the Legal and Tax team on day-to-day queries in relation to the subsidiaries.
- Document execution for the subsidiaries and Unilever PLC (including notarisation and apostillisation where required) and providing general advice on signing authorities. This includes liaising with Tax and other stakeholders where necessary (for e.g. while executing a power of attorney).
- Drafting legal documents / reviewing documents provided by stakeholders for signing from a legal perspective.
- Ensuring entity compliance for UK subsidiaries and managing their regulatory filings (e.g. with Companies House). This includes reviewing and coordinating the execution of the subsidiary accounts and attending weekly meetings with internal and external stakeholders (including auditors) to manage the accounts process. For some regions (e.g. Isle of Man and Jersey), this involves liaising with external company secretary advisors.
- Advising on board composition of UK entities alongside Tax and assisting with appointments and resignations.
- Assisting with audit related inquiries during the preparation of the statutory accounts.
- Dealing with any share structural changes in entities, and the preparation of the relevant legal documents for e.g. redemption of shares, capital reductions, and coordinating any necessary regulatory filings.
- Leading the entity reduction process by coordinating liquidation procedures, including liaising with and managing the relationship with our accountancy/business advisor.
- Addressing governance-related requests from overseas subsidiaries (listed and unlisted) of Unilever PLC e.g. carrying out voting instructions on behalf of UK subsidiaries who are shareholders of other overseas subsidiaries such as HUL in India (at its AGM).
- Dealing with all external communications (e.g. court actions or bailiff requests) received in relation to the UK subsidiaries and re-directing these to the relevant individuals.
- Refining LEM processes and consolidating LEM globally.
**Group Structure**
- Joining calls on internal re-organisations and giving input from a company law perspective. Executing any internal re-organisations in conjunction with Legal (internal and external counsel).
- Joining the quarterly steering group calls with Tax, Treasury and Finance on distributable reserves.
- Addressing queries in relation to the Group Structure and assisting stakeholders in answering the same.
- Preparing a list of ultimate beneficial owners for the auditors on a six monthly basis.
- Working with Tax on country-by-country reporting.
- Managing the creation of new Unilever group entities and liaising with relevant internal stakeholders and auditor to ensure accurate maintenance of records.
- Identifying changes to
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