About Law Deb:
Law Debenture is an Investment Trust supported by a wholly owned professional services business. Law Deb is an unusual and exciting proposition, on a day–to-day basis we are nimble, ambitious and small enough to know everyone by name, whilst also benefiting from the profile and credibility of a listed business. This is thanks to our 132-year-old FTSE250 investment trust and our fast-growing independent professional services business of over 250 colleagues across 6 business lines.

At Law Deb, doing work that has a positive impact is important to us. We need the very best people to be the custodians of our business for the next stage of our proud history and growth. We’re ambitious to innovate, collaborate and push forward in providing peace of mind and excellence for our clients and each other.

We’re on a journey to shape a culture we’re all proud to be part of. One where everyone feels trusted, supported and empowered to own their success. Working at Law Deb, you will have access to our enviable network of clients and innovative projects, as well as brilliant colleagues to learn from and collaborate with.

Role Overview:
We are recruiting a Global Entity Coordinator to join our fast growing and ambitious team. In this role you can expect to be involved in a wide range of tasks to ensure that our clients’ legal entities are compliant with local requirements. You will work across a range of jurisdictions worldwide, managing the relationship between the client and the local legal team, ensuring that excellent client service is delivered.

We are looking for candidates who will bring enthusiasm, energy and flexibility to the role, with the desire to strive and go the extra mile. In return, we’ll provide the tools and training to help you to progress your career and maximise your potential.

Main Duties:

• Working with our teams in Hong Kong and Manchester, England to coordinate corporate secretarial work across a range of jurisdictions and time zones worldwide
• Ensuring our clients’ legal entities are compliant with local requirements
• Project management of a number of clients, being the main point of contact, ensuring client satisfaction with the overall service
• Matter progress monitoring, quality checking on work performed by local legal teams
• Ensuring that invoices for work completed are issued, accurately and on time
• Input limited scope invoices into the Sage Finance system.
• Assist with setting up of new clients and engaging the local legal teams for provision of corporate secretarial services
• Responsible for ensuring clients’ databases are up to date and are accurate
• Maintaining internal databases and spreadsheets

Is this you?

• Experience of working within strict deadlines, being able to prioritise effectively to ensure that service level agreements are met at all times
• Ability to build relationships and rapport, demonstrating credibility
• Experience of project management, being able to deliver key deliverables to deadlines, working on client accounts
• Confident in communicating effectively with stakeholders at all levels
• Ability to be proactive and work on your own initiative and to take ownership of tasks, time and workload by prioritising and managing expectations
• Solution focused, with the ability to deal with conflict confidently providing effective resolutions
• Excellent computer skills, in particular MS Office, Excel and Outlook
• A team player, who can work effectively and collaboratively with colleagues and stakeholders
• High level of attention to detail
• Desire to strive and go the extra mile
• Able to process and analyse information from different perspectives
• High standard of professional and personal conduct and ethical behaviour

Essential Knowledge, Skills, Experience

• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• IT literate, advanced skills in all MS Office packages
• Strong verbal and written communication in English (incl. excellent grammar and ability to adapt communication style to suit audience)
• Student/Associate Member of HKCGI
• Company secretarial knowledge

Preferred Knowledge, Skills, Experience

• Degree in Law/ corporate governance/ business administration is desirable but not essential
  
• Knowledge in Diligent or similar entity governance software would be a plus
• Professional services or financial services industry experience an advantage
• Proficiency in Chinese/Thai/Japanese languages is desirable but not essential

Your Reward:

• Competitive salary with annual review and performance-based bonus scheme
• MPF pension contributions
• Healthcare cover
• Life assurance
• Study support
• Hybrid working post probation
• Centrally located, attractive office space

Things to note:
People who thrive at Law Deb make the most of this foundation to grow themselves, help us improve and have fun playing their part in building the culture that’s fuelling our growth.
Law Deb hires people based on personal merit and qualifications regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background or any other protected attribute. We celebrate the diversity of our colleagues and provide an inclusive environment so you can bring your true self to work. We recognise that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success.

Here’s the legal bit, please note that we have a thorough referencing process, which includes credit and criminal record checks.

If you’d like to find out more about Law Deb and our open vacancies please contact our careers team on careers@lawdeb.com.