Legal Entity - Corporate Governance Specialist (German speaking)

Job Description Summary
We are seeking an experienced and proactive Corporate Governance Specialist/Corporate Counsel with knowledge of managing legal entity structures in Western Europe. The role will be part of a consolidated Legal Entity Governance team. The role will work closely with the GE Vernova business units primarily in Germany, Austria and Switzerland or where the need arises. The role will be co-located with the GE Vernova businesses in Budapest, Hungary.
The role will own certain key legal processes like legal entity corporate governance, and other legal entity management solutions with the objective of improving the efficiency, quality and productivity of the Legal Entity Governance team. We are looking for customer-focused individuals who want to provide excellent service to our business partners in Western Europe.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

Entity Governance & Support

• Responsible for managing the day-to-day operational needs of the GE Vernova businesses in Western Europe related to the entire life cycle of entities, including legal entity creation, management and maintenance, dissolution, and simplification.
• Receive requests and interact with Business General Counsels, Finance, Tax and other GE Vernova teams to ensure timely creation, maintenance, and dissolution of legal entities.
• Manage board, supervisory boards and committee meeting logistics, attend and record minutes of all board and committee meetings; facilitate board communications.
• Advise Legal Entity boards on their roles and responsibilities; facilitate the orientation of new Directors.

Documentation & Compliance

• Maintain key corporate documents and record them in centralized document storage.
• Maintain legal entity data in relevant internal entity management systems across GE Vernova.
• Ensure proper corporate disclosure and compliance with jurisdictional corporation laws and enable proper reporting and compliance; support legal compliance tracking and reporting for entities in the region.
• Assist in implementing global governance policies and procedures locally.
• Monitor corporate governance developments and assist in tailoring governance practices to meet the needs of each legal entity.

Stakeholder co-ordination

• Work closely with the Business Counsels and cross regional teams to implement different LEAN and legal governance process improvement projects and gain adoption across all GE Vernova Business units.
• Liaise with external counsel, notaries, and government agencies.
• Collaborate with finance, tax, and operations teams to ensure entity compliance.

Process Improvements

• Identify and implement process improvements for entity management.
• Support digitalization and automation initiatives for governance workflows.

Qualifications/Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree (Law or other legal diploma/tertiary qualifications).
• Qualified attorney/paralegal/Company Secretary Certification
• Strong legal entity corporate governance experience, preferably covering Western European jurisdictions.
• Must be fluent in English and German.

Desired Characteristics:

• Experience in legal entity corporate governance and company secretarial duties, legal form management, and other services related to providing legal functions to a large corporation.
• Experience with managing complex supervisory boards, in particular in Germany.
• Demonstrated ability collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated experience performing legal research, analyzing and recommending solutions on issues of legal entity governance.
• Good legal report writing skills.
• Strong understanding and application of current AI utilization for process transformation including technology platforms used by Legal Operations (e.g. BOX, Smartsheet WF, Diligent etc.).
• Strong oral and written communications skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Suite (Excel, PowerPoint and Word).
• Strong ability to interview GE Vernova internal customers to assess needs.
• Strong ability to work within a global, diverse team environment.
• Experience working on legal technology/legal operations projects and other business process improvement projects (preference for candidates with practical experience on Kaizen improvement for large corporations).

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No