Senior Vice President – Global Entity Services

Job Description

Senior Vice President – Global Entity Services | Maples Group

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Maples Group, located in the Cayman Islands. The Maples Group is a global leader in financial services, trusted by many of the world’s largest hedge fund managers, private equity firms, and international corporations. This leadership role is a strategic position within the Global Entity Services team, focusing on managing global client mandates and ensuring the highest standards of governance, compliance, and service delivery across multi-jurisdictional structures. The work supports a global client base, offering unrivalled learning and career opportunities.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person Cayman Islands

• Team: Global Entity Services team, part of the financial services business in Grand Cayman.
• Mission: Manage global client mandates and act as a strategic leader, ensuring high standards of governance, compliance, and service delivery for multi-jurisdictional structures.
• Tech Stack: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Aderant, Viewpoint, GEMS or other entity management platforms.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Oversight: Oversee the management of a portfolio of entities across multiple jurisdictions and ensure statutory, regulatory, and governance obligations are met.
• Client Service: Deliver exceptional service to internal and external clients through proactive relationship management and provide practical governance and corporate administration solutions.
• Team Leadership: Lead service delivery teams to ensure quality, responsiveness, and consistency across all engagements and identify opportunities to enhance client satisfaction and operational efficiency.
• Process Development: Develop and maintain Standard Operating Procedures, process documentation, and training materials, delivering tailored training and system demonstrations to client stakeholders.
• Operational Improvement: Drive workflow optimization, technology adoption, and process improvements, monitoring service levels, performance metrics, and operational risks.
• Risk Mitigation: Partner with legal, compliance, and risk teams to mitigate operational and regulatory risks and provide operational insights and recommendations to senior leadership.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree or diploma in paralegal studies or a related field, with experience in legal, corporate, fiduciary, or professional services environments.
• Experience: 10+ years of experience in entity management, corporate governance, legal operations, corporate administration, or related professional services. Demonstrated experience managing multi-jurisdictional corporate structures and governance requirements, and proven ability to engage directly with clients. Must have experience overseeing the maintenance of a global entity management system and building, managing, and leading a diverse team across multiple jurisdictions.
• Skills: Strong understanding of corporate record management, board governance, and regulatory compliance. Strong business process mapping and documentation skills, with experience in training and managing teams through system and process change. Strong Excel, Word, and PowerPoint experience.
• Bonus: Corporate Administration experience in multiple legal jurisdictions, with preference to Canada, US, UAE, UK. Willingness to adjust hours to accommodate global teams and client time zones.