The company secretary is a strategic position of considerable influence at the heart of governance operations within an organisation.
Governance describes the way that an organisation is directed and controlled, which includes a company's strategy and decision making, how it achieves its aims, and ensuring that all activities undertaken comply with legal, ethical and regulatory requirements.
Company secretaries have a broad skill set – corporate law, finance, governance, strategy and corporate secretarial practice – and they advise a company's board in these key areas, providing support to the Chair, CEO and non-executive directors.
By becoming a company secretary you will have:
- access to a wide variety of different job roles across many sectors
- a diversity of responsibilities
- a fast-track to high-level roles, working with the board
- the potential to earn six figure salaries
- the opportunity to work overseas.