Job Description Summary

We are seeking an experienced Corporate Governance Specialist/Corporate Counsel with knowledge of managing legal entity structures in Japan/Korea, (experience in other parts of Asia would be an asset). 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 Japan, Korea, and other Asia Pacific jurisdictions, where the need arises. The role will be co-located with the GE Vernova businesses in Tokyo, Japan. 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 Japan and Korea.

Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing the day to day operational needs of all GE Vernova businesses in Japan/Korea 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 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

• Maintain key corporate documents and record them in centralized document storage

• Ensure proper corporate disclosure and compliance with jurisdictional corporation laws, and enable proper reporting and compliance

• Manage subsidiary structures and governance

• Monitor corporate governance developments and assist in tailoring governance practices to meet the needs of each legal entity        

• 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.

Maintain legal entity data in EntityOps, and/or other databases of information on legal entities across GE Vernova

Qualifications/Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree (Law or other legal diploma/tertiary qualifications)

• Qualified attorney/Judicial scrivener/paralegal/Company Secretary Certification/Degree or Diploma in Japan or outside Japan

• Minimum 3-5 years of legal entity corporate governance experience as a judicial scrivener/paralegal/counsel in Japan or other jurisdictions in Asia

• Must be fluent in Japanese and English (any other Asian language would be advantageous)

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.

• 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. Entity Ops, BOX, Smartsheet WF, Blueprint 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 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)

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