Senior Manager, Corporate Secretarial

Job Description

Position Summary

The Senior Manager / Client Service Associate Director is responsible for leading the corporate secretarial team, managing key client relationships, ensuring regulatory compliance, driving operational excellence, and supporting business growth. The role serves as a trusted advisor to clients and provides leadership to the Singapore corporate secretarial practice.

Key Responsibilities

Client Relationship Management

• You'll serve as the primary relationship manager for strategic and high-value clients, providing corporate secretarial advisory support, managing escalations, and identifying opportunities to expand client relationships and cross-sell services.
• You'll manage the full spectrum of corporate secretarial services for fund structures and corporate entities, including coordinating board and shareholder meetings, conducting stakeholder discussions, and preparing agendas, minutes, and resolutions.
• You'll ensure compliance with the Singapore Companies Act, ACRA requirements, relevant regulations, and internal policies by maintaining statutory registers, minute books, and filing statutory documents accurately and on time.
• You'll review and approve complex corporate actions, including incorporations, restructurings, share allotments, director changes, and strike-offs, while overseeing regulatory filings and related corporate governance matters.
• You'll mentor and guide junior team members, review their work for quality and accuracy, and leverage systems such as BizFile, e-Stamping, CAS, and Microsoft Office applications to deliver efficient corporate secretarial services.

Team Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and develop Team Leads and corporate secretarial professionals.
• Manage workforce planning, resource allocation, and succession planning.
• Drive employee engagement, performance management, and capability development.
• Foster a high-performance and client-centric culture.

Operational Excellence

• Drive process improvements and standardisation initiatives.
• Manage operational risks and ensure implementation of internal controls.
• Oversee productivity, profitability, and portfolio performance.
• Support strategic projects and transformation initiatives.

What We Offer

• Comprehensive remuneration and pension: motivating financial packages based upon market rates for your role and is proportionate to your qualifications, level of experiences and skills profile
• Wellbeing: additional social benefits such as private health and dental cover, life assurance and etc
• Annual leave: our employees are entitled to 25 days paid leave plus all statutory public holidays
• Maternity and paternity leave, education leave and etc
• Flexible working: we recognise the value of working flexibly and want to ensure all employees enjoy an excellent work-life blend. As such, we are open to conversations with employees related to setting up flexible working arrangements.

Qualifications

Requirements

Qualifications

• ICSA/CGI qualification or equivalent professional qualification preferred.
• Degree in Law, Business, Accountancy, Corporate Administration, or related discipline.

Experience

• You bring 10 to 15 years of corporate secretarial experience, ideally gained within a corporate services provider, professional services firm, or similar environment.
• You have a proven track record of managing large client portfolios and complex corporate structures across multiple jurisdictions and entity types.
• You possess strong leadership and people management skills, with experience leading managers, developing teams, and driving high performance.
• You have extensive experience delivering corporate secretarial services and providing trusted advisory support to diverse client stakeholders.
• You have experience supporting multinational corporations, private equity firms, fund structures, or listed companies, which will be considered a strong advantage.

Technical Competencies

• Strong knowledge of the Singapore Companies Act and corporate governance requirements.
• Sound understanding of CSP regulatory requirements and corporate secretarial best practices.
• Strong risk management and compliance mindset.
• Excellent stakeholder management and commercial acumen.

Leadership Competencies

• Strategic thinking and decision-making.
• Strong client relationship management skills.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Proven ability to lead and develop high-performing teams.