Corporate Governance Manager

📍Dublin | 💰 €66,100 - €80,500 + Incentive Awards tied to your performance ➕ benefits | Hear from the team ✨

⭐ About the role:

We’re looking for a talented, hands-on, and diligent Corporate Governance Manager with knowledge and experience of Irish company law and corporate governance requirements to join the Monzo Europe Company Secretarial Team. Based in Dublin, you’ll hit the ground running and become the heart of all things governance for Monzo Europe as we build out our bank in Ireland.

Bringing your experience gained in an Corporate Governance Manager (or equivalent) role, you’ll be comfortable operating in a fast-paced organisation and accustomed to applying critical and solution-oriented thinking to secure good governance outcomes for Monzo. You’ll also play a crucial role in supporting the Monzo Europe Board and its committees and you’ll help to make sure our governance processes work smoothly all while remaining in line with regulation and the high standards we have for governance here at Monzo.

You’ll report to the Monzo Europe General Counsel & Company Secretary (CoSec) and work closely with the Deputy Company Secretary for Monzo Europe (Deputy CoSec), as well as being a part of the broader Monzo Group Governance Squad to help establish and implement robust and compliant corporate governance practices for Monzo Europe.

This role offers an exciting and novel opportunity to play an instrumental role in a scaling company that’s key to Monzo’s expansion strategy. You’ll be part of a high-performing team who’ll support your development and ensure you have the opportunity to enhance your company secretarial skill set while taking ownership of some of Monzo Europe’s key governance processes.

If you are excited about the intersection of technology and banking, and want to help bring some of that Monzo magic to Europe, this is the role for you!

🔑 You'll play a key role in...

Board and Board Committee management: You’ll act as Secretary to certain Board Committees and will support the CoSec and Deputy CoSec with the end-to-end management of the Monzo Europe Board. This will include things like: coordinating Board and committee meetings and managing meeting logistics, internal and chair agenda preparation, maintaining the forward calendar, circulating paper requests and supporting with paper dispatching, attendance at meetings, minute-taking, maintaining the disclosable interest registers, communicating action items, and maintaining the action tracker and decision log.

Board coordination and director support: You’ll provide seamless support to the Monzo Europe Board directors by being a key contact on the coordination side of things and support the induction and onboarding of new board members.

Statutory and regulatory compliance: Together with the CoSec and Deputy CoSec, you’ll help make sure that Monzo Europe remains compliant with its statutory obligations and you’ll be responsible for things like annual and ad-hoc filings with the CRO, supporting on any corporate transactions with statutory compliance requirements, maintaining corporate registers, and supporting any governance-related regulatory returns.

Governance processes and procedures: With support from the Deputy CoSec, you’ll help to establish and maintain Monzo Europe’s governance policies, processes and procedures in line with regulatory requirements and internal Group governance standards. This includes performing periodic governance document reviews and owning Board governance documentation, maintaining the governance process note and checklist inventory, and supporting other annual governance processes ranging from the annual report to annual Board performance reviews.

Governance business partner: Working in collaboration with the Deputy CoSec, you’ll foster and maintain strong partnerships with business counterparts, acting as a strategic business partner to key stakeholders and working on ad-hoc projects within Monzo Europe and the wider Monzo Group as necessary.

KYC requests: Maintain the Monzo Europe KYC corporate information documentation and support the business with KYC requests from 3rd parties.

🤩 We’d love to hear from you if...

• You’re a qualified company secretary (ACG or equivalent), with Irish company secretarial experience, ideally gained in financial services or a regulated environment.
• You have demonstrable knowledge of corporate governance principles and an understanding of applicable financial regulations from working in financial services (such as the CBI Corporate Governance Requirements).
• You’re a self-starter and have experience completing core corporate secretarial tasks, particularly: statutory compliance; board coordination experience having acted as Secretary before and managed the end-to-end Board support process for Boards and Committees and; producing high-quality and technical minutes.
• You understand why a task needs to be done and think about what other parts of the business need to be looped in to the process.
• You're a confident communicator, able to engage at all levels of the organisation, including the Board and Executive Committee and have experience of liaising with senior stakeholders in a clear and concise way.
• You have experience of developing or enhancing governance processes to make them more effective or efficient with an ability to work well autonomously and collaboratively to get things done well.
• You’re resilient, capable, and comfortable pivoting and adjusting to new situations, keeping pace with a constantly evolving business environment.

🙌 What’s in it for you

💰€66,000 - €80,500 + Incentive Awards tied to your performance

📍This role will have a hybrid working model, based in our Dublin office 2 - 3 days a week

⏰ We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, and at times that suit you and your team

🏝 Annual Leave - 34 days including public holidays (24 holiday days + 10 public holidays)

📚 €1,200 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences

🏥 Private healthcare scheme

💰 Pension scheme: the minimum contribution is 4% and Monzo matches any additional contributions that you make up to a maximum of 6%

💛 Wellbeing benefits: financial education, women’s and men’s health support, mental health benefits, including coaching and counselling

🌈 The application journey has 3 key steps

• 30 min call with the Recruiter
• 30 min call with the Hiring Manager
• 2 hours of technical and behavioural interviews

This process should take around 3-4 weeks - your schedule is really important to us, so we promise to be as flexible as possible! We have some guidelines on using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to ace an application and interview at Monzo. You can read them here.

We’ll only close this role once we have enough applications for the next stage. Please submit your application as soon as possible to make sure you don’t miss out.

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