Administrative Associate - Legal
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Why we're hiring:
What you'll be doing:
- Supporting company secretarial, legal, and administrative activities across the Netherlands holding companies.
- Coordinating board meetings, preparing minutes, resolutions, and corporate documentation.
- Managing statutory records, regulatory filings, and governance processes.
- Maintaining corporate records, entity management systems, and organisational data.
- Supporting legal document execution (powers of attorney, and corporate transactions.
- Assisting with annual filings, compliance activities, and Treasury-related Know Your Customer (KYC) requests.
- Collaborating with stakeholders across multiple countries and functions on a range of legal projects.
Who you'll be working with:
You will report to the Managing Director/CFO of the Dutch holding companies
and work in close partnership with WPP’s Company Secretarial team, led by the Company Secretary based in London. You'll also collaborate with colleagues across Legal, Tax, Treasury, and senior leadership teams, playing a key role in helping ensure governance processes run effectively and efficiently.
What you'll need:
- Experience in an administrative, legal support, company secretarial, executive assistant, or similar role.
- Excellent organisational skills and a strong attention to detail.
- The ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines effectively.
- Confidence working with senior stakeholders and international teams.
- A proactive, solutions-focused approach and a willingness to take ownership.
- Knowledge of corporate governance or Dutch company administration processes would be advantageous but is not essential.
Who you are:
You're open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are open-minded: to new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.
You're optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.
You're extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.
What we'll give you:
Passionate, inspired people – We aim to create a culture in which people can do extraordinary work.
Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.
Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?
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We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.
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