Associate Secretary At Corporate Affairs

The Corporate Affairs team offers a unique working experience at the highest level within ING in a dynamic environment and a closely-knit team. Corporate Affairs is looking for an energetic, diligent and pragmatic Associate Secretary to strengthen the team within the Corporate Legal Affairs department. Together with your colleagues you play a key role in supporting ING's corporate boards. Your (direct) colleagues are corporate secretaries, legal corporate law and governance specialists, legal tech & ops specialists, business consultants and senior business support officers.

The Corporate Affairs team:

1. Contributes to compliant, effective and efficient corporate governance by:

• guiding high quality proposals to the corporate boards to ensure effective corporate decision making,

• facilitating well-prepared, efficient board meetings,

• adhering to applicable standards, laws and regulations, and

• using digital/tech solutions where possible

2. Provides adequate assurance, advice and support on board related content and process matters.

3. Acts as gatekeeper and liaison between the corporate boards, the rest of the ING organisation and its stakeholders, such as regulatory and supervisory bodies.

Roles and responsibilities

Corporate Housekeeping support related to responsibilities of ING's corporate boards

Maintain and keep several board related documents up to date, responsible for coordinating board related processes and preparing statements, declarations or related activities. Having a key role in preparing the year plan for the Supervisory Board and its Committees, aligned with their roles & responsibilities as laid down in for example charters.

Annual Report & Annual General Meeting (AGM) support

Provide input pertaining to board members for the relevant sections of the Annual Report of ING Group and Bank (such as the SB report and certain sections of the Corporate Governance chapter) and related documents. Support the AGM team and process and is involved in drafting of AGM related documents.

Board meeting related documentation services, including due diligence

Coordinate and prepare board meeting related information and due diligence requests, largely driven by regulatory requirements, such as SOX and as established by the DNB/ECB and other regulatory/supervisory bodies. This includes providing and communicating with stakeholders such as ING's supervisors/regulators and internal and external auditors.

How to succeed

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• Stakeholder management and engagement: Acts as trusted advisor and business partner to the board teams, pro-actively liaises with them and with a variety of other stakeholders in relation to board related aspects, to manage various interdependencies.

• Team spirit: At all times complies with ING's Orange Code (collaboration): help others to be successful, take it on and make it happen and are always a step ahead. As part of and in consultation with the team, ensures to do the right things at the right time (prioritise & focus), contribute to standardisation of processes and technologies (automate & digitalise), and come up with new ideas to improve and implement them (innovation).

• Analytical, conceptual and self-starter: Has oversight as well as eye for detail. They can operationalise strategy and self-start change/implementation initiatives.

• Organisational sensitivity: Understands and is able to navigate the formal and informal structures. While dealing with highly confidential and sensitive information in a fast-paced and complex environment.

Required skills & experience:

• Academic degree in law and/or economics, business administration;

• Minimum of 5 years relevant experience, preferably in a corporate environment (of a larger and/or complex organisation) with affinity for board related matters and an understanding of and affinity with corporate governance and legal related matters;

• Profound skills working with MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Adobe as well as affinity with other digital solutions like iManage;

• Excellent communication skills both spoken and in writing in English, proficiency in Dutch would be an advantage;

• Ability to navigate ambiguity in a fast-paced and complex environment;

• Is pragmatic, client focused, able to translate strategy into concrete actions;

• Solid skills to assume a high level of responsibility, with proven influencing and interpersonal skills and problem-solving capabilities;

• Resilience, can perform under pressure, prioritize and quickly navigate amongst several topics;

• Capable of building and maintaining relationships with other colleagues/departments in a dynamic and complex environment.

Rewards & benefits

We want to make sure that it's possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. You can find out more about our employment conditions at https://www.ing.jobs/netherlands/Why-ING/benefits.htm

The benefits of working with us at ING include:

• A salary tailored to your qualities and experience
• 24 - 27 vacation days depending on contract
• Pension scheme
• 13th month salary
• Individual Savings Contribution (BIS), 3.5% of your gross annual salary
• 8% Holiday payment
• Hybrid working to blend home working for focus and office working for collaboration and co-creation
• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities
• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues

About us

With 60,000 employees and operations in approximately 40 countries, there is no shortage of opportunities for people with initiative who want to help people take a step ahead in life and in business. Do you want to work at the cutting edge of what's possible and at the same time ensure you work with integrity and hold the customer's interests at heart? Do you want to be surrounded by progressive, inspiring, diverse and supportive colleagues? Then there is no better place to invest your talents than at ING. Join us. Apply today.

Questions?

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Please note, multiple interview steps involving various business stakeholders will be part of the selection process.