The Chance

Join a leading organisation in a role that will strengthen your portfolio legal career. Duration: 3 months

- Arrangement: Full time (hybrid)
- Location: Sydney

About You

You are a seasoned company secretary with a minimum of 10 years' experience, bringing a strong track record from large organisations.

Your Experience & Expertise:

- Ability to lead a company secretariat function for an organisation's Boards and relevant Committees, ensuring effective governance support, forward planning and high-quality Board operations
- Experience maintaining robust Board and Committee governance processes, including agendas, papers, minutes, actions, corporate calendars and governance records
- Capable of overseeing attendance at Board and Committee meetings, including the preparation and review of Board and Committee packs, minutes and action records
- Experience supporting compliance with relevant statutory, regulatory, licence and governance obligations applicable to an organisation's clearing and settlement entities
- Ability to provide trusted company secretariat and governance advice to Board Chairs, Directors, Executives and senior stakeholders
- Experience leading or supporting responses to regulatory, inquiry or assurance requests involving the Company Secretariat function

Your Skills & Attributes:

- Extensive company secretariat, governance or legal experience including senior-level experience supporting Boards and Committees in a listed, licensed or highly regulated environment
- Strong knowledge of corporate governance procedures, Corporations Act requirements, regulatory expectations and Board governance disciplines.




- Strong practical understanding of the Corporations Act, ASX Listing Rules, contemporary company secretarial practice and best-practice corporate governance expectations
- Ability to operate confidently with Board Chairs, Directors, senior Executives, regulators and cross-functional stakeholders

Requirements:

- Right to live and work in Australia

About Reach

Reach is the flexible legal resourcing platform of Ashurst Perkins Coie, a global law firm with more than 3,500 legal professionals across 52 offices. Sitting within Advance, the firm's NewLaw division, we place lawyers and professionals where they're needed most — whether our clients need to meet a surge in demand, cover leave, bridge a recruitment gap, or bring in specialist expertise.

Why join Reach?

Reach gives you the flexibility to build a career that fits your life — not the other way around. We work with talented consultants across a broad range of specialties, matching the right people with the right opportunities.

Here's what you can expect as a Reach consultant:

- Flexibility and choice — control over how, when, and where you work, on terms that suit your life.
- A genuine partnership — a dedicated Reach team who will get to know you and actively champion your career goals.
- The backing of a global firm — the resources, reputation, and culture of Ashurst Perkins Coie, including access to clients doing market-leading work and a refreshingly open and inclusive community.

Interested?

Ready to find out more? Apply now or get in touch with Fiona Craig, our Senior Talent Manager, at [email protected] — we'd love to hear from you.

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📌 Reach Legal Consultant | Company Secretary | Sydney
🏢 Ashurst
📍 Sydney