Company Description

Vattenfall is a leading European energy company driving the transition to a sustainable energy system. We have been electrifying industries, powering homes and transforming life through innovation for more than 100 years and now have a mission of working for fossil freedom. We employ around 20,000 people mostly in our core markets in Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the UK.

Job Description

Business Area Wind is responsible for Vattenfall’s Onshore and Offshore Wind as well as other non-hydro Renewable activities like PV/Solar. Today we develop, construct and operate wind generation in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. In addition, we have a clear strategy to develop our Solar operations further. For the work ahead we need people who are fully dedicated to our customers and to a sustainable society – people like you.

The purpose of Legal Governance in Central Controlling is to provide the Vice President of Business Control and the BA Wind MT insight in BA Wind’s performance to drive excellent business decisions for BA Wind’s product lines and Legal Entities. Central Controlling has to ensure proper and consistent controlling processes across the Business Units and governance for Legal Entities.

Senior Legal Governance Specialist (Senior Paralegal) at BA Wind Sweden & Norway

Vattenfall is now looking for the right person to fill the position as Senior Legal Governance Specialist (Senior Paralegal) at BA Wind, ensuring compliance of our legal entities in Sweden and Norway. In your role, you are to establish and maintain stable, pragmatic and harmonised governance processes for all legal entities, enabling all colleagues to do their work as effectively as possible.

In the Nordics, BA Wind has 25+ legal entities operating ~800 MW of On- & Offshore Wind. You would be working with governance and compliance within Sweden’s all legal entities such as Vattenfall’s windfarm Blakliden/Fäbodberget; one of the largest Onshore wind projects ever constructed in Sweden, among many others.

It is Vattenfall’s ambition to remain a leader in the energy transition by developing, constructing, and operating on offshore wind farms, large-scale solar PV, onshore wind farms and co-located battery storage. At year-end 2022, Vattenfall had 2.2 GW of renewable capacity under construction and 5.3 GW in mature-stage development. We aim to further strengthen our project pipeline by greenfield development and by bidding on, or acquiring attractive projects across all our renewable energy technologies.

In the other countries BA Wind is active, a number of employees are supporting the governance processes from various departments and your role will also include supporting in establishing a sound governance framework across BA Wind, making sure that we work across countries in a harmonized and pragmatic way.

Main tasks & responsibilities:

• Legal administration (“legal office”)
• Ensuring compliance of our legal entities to laws and regulations
• Taking the lead on day-to-day governance activities (e.g. preparing & minuting shareholder meetings & resolutions, drafting power of attorneys, handling registrations to the company register, collecting signatures from authorised signatories etc.)
• Create and make sure all delegations within Wind are up to date
• Ensuring that legal records are kept in good order
• Advisory role towards business relating to legal governance matters, e.g. establishment of new legal entities, assignment of directorship, funding structure
• Statutory compliance
• Maintaining overview of directors, powers of attorneys, financial mandates and system authorisations of all legal entities in Sweden and revise when required
• In cooperation with the Legal department, supporting in training of directors regarding their duties, responsibilities, relevant laws, etc.
• Ensuring compliance to internal regulations of our Swedish employees
• Financial governance for Legal Entities
• Ensuring compliant funding structure for all BA Wind legal entities in Sweden, according to Vattenfall policy
• Close cooperation with Finance functions to coordinate various financial processes, changes in share capital, asset transfers etc.

As a senior Legal Governance Specialist we are also expecting the successful candidate to:

• Have an overall overview of the corporate governance topics across the countries
• Support and act as back-up to the Head of BA Legal Governance
• Approve / support in the internal financial mandates
• Take on some more challenging tasks/projects within the team

Qualifications

Your profile

• You have a bachelor degree, paralegal degree (or equal) in business law, compliance, or similar and have at least 3 years work experience in corporate governance of legal entities
• Your command of both Swedish and English is strong, both verbally and written.
• You pay attention to details without losing the bigger picture
• Experience with stakeholder management and strong networker
• Able to clearly communicate and engage stakeholders (verbal and written)
• Good coordination and administrative skills
• Cooperative & pro-active team player

Location

The location of this position is Solna, Stockholm. Regular business trips are required.

Additional Information

Process and time line

We welcome your application in English, including CV and cover letter. We kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website.

Last day to apply 3rd April 2024. We will be conducting ongoing selections and interviews through the application period and so we encourage you to send in your application as soon as possible.

For more information about the position you are welcome to contact Head of Legal Governance in BA Wind Cecilia Monö, [email protected] . For more information about the recruitment process, you are welcome to contact Catalina Roa Rodriguez, [email protected]

Trade union representatives in Sweden

Rolf Ohlsson (Akademikerna), Anders Bohlin (Unionen), Christer Gustafsson (Ledarna), Rebecka Hedsell (SEKO). To contact the representatives, please call Vattenfall's switchboard, +46 0 739 50 00.