Lead Specialist

**Job Description Summary**: We are looking for a legal professional to join our Legal Entity Governance team. This role will be responsible for, among other things, (i) managing day to day governance of GE Aerospace’s global subsidiaries, including preparing for and attending board meetings, processing annual filings to keep entities in good standing, keeping directors and officers of entities up to date, preparing and processing powers of attorney, preparing board resolutions, maintaining central databases of entity documents, and assisting with other document preparation and retrieval tasks; (ii) assisting with creation and elimination of legal entities; (iii) assisting with legal entity restructuring projects; (iv) managing legal entity related licenses, including contractor licenses; and (v) managing legal entity governance tools. The role may expand to other areas if the scope of Legal Entity Governance team grows. This role can be offered as a remote position with closeness to our office in Brussels, Belgium or Turin, Italy.

**Essential Responsibilities**:

- Independently manage day-to-day governance of numerous legal entities, including preparing resolutions, attending board minutes, keeping directors and officers up to date.
- Engage with regional governmental authorities and agencies to execute compliance filings to keep entities’ registrations and licenses in good standing.
- Develop relationships with regulatory agencies and governmental authorities, particularly Secretaries of State; engage with regulatory and governmental agencies in connection with compliance and commercial filings.
- Advise on signing authority for legal entities, and draft powers of attorney and other delegation documents.
- Work with lawyers on the team to provide advice to a variety of GE Aerospace’s businesses regarding legal entity governance and related matters.
- Draft for lawyer review legal documents relating to creation or elimination of legal entities and manage entity creation or elimination approval and execution processes.
- Support entity restructuring projects to facilitate BD activities, integrate acquisition entities and/or structure simplification efforts; project manage related international work in support of domestic restructurings.
- Draft for lawyer review transactional documents, including merger agreements, share transfer agreements, shareholder and board consents, board minutes, liquidation documents and other transactional documents supporting internal GE Aerospace restructurings across diverse global business lines.
- Advise GE Aerospace’s businesses' commercial teams on legal entities and prepare needed documentation in support of commercial bids, proposals and other deal activities.
- Support GE Aerospace Treasury with legal entity documentation for Know your Customer purposes.
- Work in a matrix environment, including supporting cross functional teams (Tax, HR, Finance, Commercial) to drive legal process improvements.
- Perform as project manager for cross functional and cross business projects and initiatives. This will require overseeing virtual teams and acting as liaison with technology and global process teams.
- Maintain and improve tools used by team, including those used to track powers of attorney, legal entities and legal entity documents.
- Drive, organize and manage operating project rhythms and manage project documentation.
- Responsibilities will expand and evolve if incremental services move to organization

**Qualifications/Requirements**:

- Bachelor’s degree
- Minimum 4 years of professional experience in a law firm or in-house legal department including: Experience working with document and data management systems; Experience working with global teams on complex initiatives, driving issue resolution and recommending solutions; Experience working with virtual teams.

**Desired Characteristics**:

- Experience with legal entity governance and/or internal business reorganizations.
- Ability to handle multiple inputs and accurately prioritize tasks while working independently and meeting established commitments
- Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal), including ability to communicate professionally and timely.
- Attention to detail.
- Strong ability to understand legal transactional requirements and business requirements to be able to overlay varying implications in an effort to determine optimum solutions.
- Technologically savvy, including strong Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Adobe skills.
- Strong interpersonal skills.
- Business-minded and customer-service focused.
- Ability to see the big picture instead of just focusing on the concrete task at hand.
- Demonstrated ability to balance multiple projects and a high volume of work, including the ability to adapt to changing priorities.
- Experience interacting with governmental authorities.
- Strong presentation capabilities.
- Strong orientation towards process improvement.
- Experience creating a