Assistant Company Secretary

**Position title**:Assistant Company Secretary / Legal Counsel (Singapore)

**About Woodside**:
We know great results come from our people feeling valued, getting the support they need to reach their full potential as well as bringing their whole self to work. We also recognise that enduring, meaningful relationships with communities are fundamental to maintaining our licence to operate.

Our global headquarters are based in Perth, with an expanding Singapore office that is at the forefront of developing and implementing innovative solutions to meet our global customers’ lower-carbon energy needs.

**About the Role**:
Additional governance and legal support is required in Woodside Energy’s Singapore office. Working closely with the Singapore Company Secretary and the Singapore-based marketing, trading and shipping ( **MT&S **) team, your role will include providing governance and compliance advice to Woodside's subsidiary companies and ensuring that corporate compliance and governance requirements are met. You will also provide legal support in relation to marketing, trading and shipping activities involving Woodside group entities.

**Duties & Responsibilities**:
Some of the typical tasks, duties and responsibilities will include (but not limited to):

- Provide company secretariat services for Woodside group entities, particularly those in Australia and Singapore
- Ensure that Woodside group entities satisfy annual corporate compliance and governance requirements in accordance with their Constitution, the Australian Corporations Act and the Singapore Companies Act (or applicable foreign legislation)
- Ensure that Woodside group entities comply with Woodside’s internal corporate governance policies and procedures
- Provide company secretarial services to Woodside group entity board meetings as required
- Manage and oversee share registry services (ASX, SGX, LSE and NYSE), and co-ordination of payment of dividends
- Manage and oversee Singapore and foreign legal advisers and company secretarial service providers
- Provide Company Secretariat and legal support for specific ad hoc projects as required
- Provide some legal support for Woodside’s Singapore based marketing, trading and shipping activities
- Provide general support for governance related activities in Singapore and overseas as required
- Address corporate governance and regulatory compliance issues across a range of the company's 'Asia-Pac' marketing and trading activities
- Assist in the provision of commercial-focussed pragmatic legal advice and strategic counsel to the Singapore Directors, management and LNG and liquids traders
- Provide legal support for various commercial arrangements associated with LNG and liquids marketing, trading opportunities across Asia-Pacific
- Assist in the management of external legal support on specialist matters
- Provide general corporate commercial legal advice for Woodside’s Singapore and South East Asia activities

**Skills and Experience**
- Appropriately qualified with relevant tertiary qualifications (law degree) with 5+ years as a lawyer with professional experience in a commodity trading setting, energy and resources experience preferable.
- Experience in understanding the ASX, SGX, LSE and NYSE compliance requirements
- Experience in dealing with share registries, including dividend payments.
- You must be a proven team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Have a strong organisational and prioritisation ability.
- Demonstrated negotiation and influencing skills, including confident interaction with executive-level stakeholders.
- Proven ability to build and foster positive relationships and networks.