Key duties of the Corporate and Regulatory Compliance Officer:

Compliance

• Leading and maintaining the overall approach, system and processes for each GreenCo Company’s compliance reporting to its stakeholders including regulators and investors.
• Maintaining a compliance tracking system to ensure that responsible staff are aware of upcoming deadlines.
• Ensuring full knowledge of all investor reporting and approval requirements and ensuring any necessary approvals are obtained prior to action being taken.
• Assisting in the preparation of reports required by GreenCo’s investors, including coordinating and obtaining input from other internal teams.
• Undertaking know-your-customer checks and other due diligence on potential commercial counterparties, including periodic updates.
• Ensuring that the corporate governance and policies of GreenCo’s commercial counterparties comply with GreenCo’s requirements.
• Co-ordinating with external advisers in relation to corporate and compliance matters.
• Ensuring that the company policies of each GreenCo Company are up to date and approved, including any periodic review, amendments and re-approvals.
• Monitoring compliance with each GreenCo Company’s policies and reporting any deviations.
• Updating and maintaining compliance records.

• Company Secretarial
• Ensuring that each GreenCo Company complies with its statutory corporate responsibilities, that board and committee meetings of each Group Company run smoothly and that decisions are properly recorded and appropriate filings made to ensure the company registers are accurate and up-to-date at all times. Tasks include:
• Coordinating and attending board and committee meetings of each GreenCo Company, preparing reports, agendas and minutes for the same, compiling and circulating documents to be considered at the meetings and pursuing follow up actions and reports on matters arising.
• Preparing written board resolutions for matters which require decisions between scheduled board meetings.
• Convening and servicing shareholder general meetings (AGMs and EGMs) for each GreenCo Company, including preparing briefing notes and draft resolutions/minutes.
• Preparing corporate compliance returns and documents for relevant company registries, including in relation to share transfers, share issuances and changes of directors.
• Coordinating with the company secretary of each GreenCo Company to ensure all necessary filings and other corporate matters are up to date.
• Maintaining key corporate documents and records and acting as a central point of reference for all GreenCo staff on corporate matters.

• Regulatory
• Obtaining and renewing all business licences and certifications required for each GreenCo Company to be compliant with the relevant laws in its country of operations.
• Keeping up to date with any regulatory or statutory changes and policies, at national and regional level, that might affect a GreenCo Company, in coordination with the relevant Group Company company secretary or legal advisers where applicable, including in relation to changes in energy sector regulation.
• Preparing licence applications for any Group Company.
• Liaising with the electricity regulator in each country of operation of a GreenCo Company in relation to the relevant Group Company’s licensing requirements.
• Preparation of basic legal documents using standard templates, such as non-disclosure agreements.
• Undertaking legal and regulatory research.

C. Qualifications and Requirements

The Corporate and Regulatory Compliance Officer will be expected to bring a combination of the following experience, personal attributes and qualifications:

• minimum of 3 years experience working in compliance and/or company secretarial;
• degree level education from a recognized university/institution in law, business or equivalent;
• a genuine interest in the job and a proactive, “can do” attitude;
• close attention to detail and excellent organisational skills;
• ability to take responsibility for own workload;
• excellent English written and spoken communication skills;
• solid IT skills, including Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint and willingness to engage with other IT platforms for workflow management;
• a team player, flexible and willing to help out wherever needed;
• an understanding of the energy sector .