Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GE Vernova is a company focused on operational excellence in legal entity governance, and they are seeking a Global Legal Entity Governance Operations Specialist. This role involves partnering with global leads to enhance governance processes, manage data integrity, and support budgeting initiatives while engaging with cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities
- Support onboarding of a new legal-entity governance system
- Serve as internal administrator of the governance tool: user access, permissions, training materials, user support
- Ensure a “single source of truth” - data integrity, validation and reconciliation of entity data (structures, board/officer data, filings)
- Generate and distribute periodic reports to governance, legal and business stakeholders
- Embed Lean principles into the governance team’s processes and implement process standardization, digitalization, and automation
- Own strategic projects to improve operational metrics (cycle times, error rates, user adoption, cost avoidance)
- Design and maintain governance dashboards, KPIs and management reporting to senior leadership
- Support annual budgeting process for the legal entity governance function: forecast, create budget requests, partner with finance for approvals and tracking
- Monitor ongoing expenditures and budget performance; report variances and propose corrective actions
- Maintain and manage vendor relations, tool licenses and cost allocations related to governance operations
- Act as operational liaison to global teams (legal, tax, treasury, controllership, technology) to execute governance tasks, escalate issues and drive timely resolution
- Provide training, communications and tool-user onboarding for internal customers and business-users globally
- Support governance lead in preparing senior-executive level materials, status updates, and change-management communications
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in business, law, finance, information systems, or a related field (J.D. or legal background is a plus but not required)
- 5-8 years of relevant experience in legal operations, entity governance, program / project management, or process improvement
- Strong experience with tool implementation/data migration (system onboarding, administration)
- Demonstrated experience driving continuous improvement and process optimization (Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen)
- Solid budgeting and financial monitoring experience
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills across global/matrixed environments
- Strong analytical mindset, comfortable working with metrics, dashboards, data integrity
- Ability to multi-task, manage changing priorities, deliver in a fast-paced environment
- Strong quality-control mindset and exceptional attention to detail
- Strong collaborator with the ability to build trusted relationships in a matrixed global environment
- Proven track record working within legal entity governance, entity management or corporate compliance environment
- Familiarity with entity management/governance systems or tools (e.g., entity management software)
- Experience working globally, with cross-jurisdictional knowledge and cultural sensitivity
- Self-starter with a mindset of ownership, simplification and execution — i.e., someone who can “get it done”, drive clarity, cut through complexity
- Passion for process, continuous improvement, simplification, and meaningful impact
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
- Access to Health Coach from GE Vernova, a 24/7 nurse-based resource
- Access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services
- GE Vernova Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions
- Access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants
- Tuition assistance
- Adoption assistance
- Paid parental leave
- Disability benefits
- Life insurance
- 12 paid holidays
- Permissive time off
- Bonus eligibility: discretionary annual bonus
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