Corporate Secretary

About the Position

We are seeking a Corporate Secretary to join ING's Corporate Affairs team in Amsterdam, Netherlands. As Corporate Secretary, you will play a crucial role in driving effective governance and supporting ING’s corporate boards. This role is ideal for a professional with a legal background or experience in legal practice, ready to make a meaningful impact within a dynamic and confidential environment at the heart of ING.

Responsibilities

• Pro-actively drive the organisation of the board meetings from beginning to end. This includes the drawing up of meeting agendas as well as quality review and timely distribution of board documents.
• Produce high quality minutes including the capturing of board decisions and action points.
• Manage actions in preparation of or which result from the board meetings by actively engaging with your stakeholders in a timely manner.
• Prepare and manage the annual cycle planning of board meeting work and establish the collective MBB and SB programme of lifelong learning.
• Ensure that correct procedures are followed and that the corporate boards act in accordance with their statutory obligations as laid down in various documents such as the Articles of Association, the corporate board charters, the Governance Framework and the Decision Structure ING.
• Being able to step-in for the Supervisory Board related meetings, if needed.

Additional responsibilities:

• Contributing to the Annual Report and / or the Annual General Meeting.
• Managing updates made to the Decision Structure ING as well as preparing the annual update given to the Management Board and Supervisory Board.
• Monitoring the collective boards’ financials in view of the dynamic plan (budget-actuals-forecast) and act as financial approver for invoices.
• Coordinating the on- and offboarding of corporate board members.

Requirements

• Affinity with stakeholder management: excellent communication skills and a strong sense for organisational sensitivity.
• Modest where needed, comfortable being a fly on the wall when appropriate, focused on enabling others rather than being the centre of attention.
• Ability to deal with highly confidential and sensitive information, in a fast-paced and complex environment.
• Proactive, team player, flexible, curious, and resilient with the capacity to quickly familiarise yourself with new subject matters.
• Service oriented mindset, with the ability to work in a demanding environment. Knowledge of and experience with the ING organisation is an advantage.
• An academic degree (master’s degree) preferably with legal affinity.
• Minimum of 6 years working experience. Experience within ING’s corporate environment profound understanding of and affinity with corporate governance and legal matters is preferred.
• Excellent skills in working with MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and can also familiarise yourself quickly with other IT applications, such as iManage, Sherpany and SaySo.
• Fluent in English, both spoken and in writing.

We Offer

• 25-28 vacation days depending on contract
• Pension scheme
• 13th month salary
• 8% Holiday payment
• Hybrid working
• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities
• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues

About the Company

At ING, we empower people and businesses to move forward. Discover what we do and what we can offer you. We are committed to diversity, inclusion, and belonging, ensuring a culture where everyone can develop and make an impact.

Apply Now

Can you relate to this profile? Apply now by submitting your motivation letter and resume, both in English.

Please note, multiple interview steps involving various business stakeholders will be part of the selection process. The eventual preferred candidate will also be subject to an in-depth screening process.

We are looking forward to your application!