About The Role
Let’s grow together!
A Platinum Investors in People employer and an award-winning UK bank, focused on growth. Our customers include savers and businesses across the UK and, working together, we use our specialist expertise to help them achieve their ambitions and build a sustainable future. If you’re a newly qualified Assistant Company Secretary looking for an opportunity to grow in a friendly environment, we’re looking for you!
We’re flexible, inclusive, committed to your wellbeing and passionate about you reaching your potential. Let’s grow together …
What you’ll be doing
1. Act as secretary to the Executive Risk Committee and Board Risk and Compliance Committee, ensuring accurate and concise minutes of meetings are taken and circulated in a timely manner.
2. With oversight of the Deputy Company Secretary, drafting, verifying and maintaining key governance documents e.g. governance sections of the annual report and accounts, and carrying out an analysis of Paragon’s compliance with the 2024 UK Corporate Governance Code
3. Ensure that an allocated portfolio of subsidiaries complies with legal, regulatory and constitutional governance obligations, including external (Companies Act 2006, Stock Exchange (where applicable), FCA/PRA, Banking best practice) and internal Paragon Corporate Governance Framework requirements assuming collective responsibility jointly with the other team members for such compliance overall
4. Support the General Counsel and Deputy Company Secretary in analysing and providing specialist advice on new business and legislative developments/projects in order to clearly identify any statutory, compliance and corporate governance implications for Paragon and its subsidiaries
5. To assist with meetings of any subsidiary companies in addition to board/management committees and, collate and distribute meeting papers and produce accurate, concise and timely minutes.
About You
What you’ll bring to the team
6. Essential Qualifications: At least 2-3 years company secretarial experience (preferably in a listed or financial services environment). Knowledge and/or experience of the Risk and Compliance functions of financial services organisations is a plus.
7. Qualified or materially part-qualified Chartered Secretary, Lawyer or relevant professional qualification
8. Minute taking experience is a must
9. Well-developed organisational skills, with the ability to work efficiently under pressure and to tight deadlines
10. Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a busy and professional team
Even if you don’t meet all the criteria, we encourage you to apply. At Paragon, we value diversity and we’re excited to hear from passionate individuals like you! If you’re ready to contribute to the team, please apply.
Further information on the role can be found in the Purpose and Performance Profile (PPP), which is downloadable on this page.
Please note, applicants must have the right to work in the UK. We do not offer visa sponsorship.
Working hours
You will be required to work 37.5 hours per week across Monday to Friday. Your start and finish times will be agreed between you and your manager.
Inclusion
As a Disability Confident Employer, we want to ensure that our vacancies are accessible for everyone. If you have a disability, long term health condition or are neurodiverse and need us to adjust our recruitment process please get in touch with our recruitment team.
About Us
What can we offer you?
11. Generous Holiday Allowance: Starting from 25 days and climbing to 30, you also get to enjoy a day off for your birthday, Christmas Eve, and New Year’s Eve. You can also buy or sell up to a week’s leave
12. Share Save Scheme: Annually, you have the opportunity to buy shares in Paragon at a discounted rate
13. Profit Related Pay: We share some of our annual profit with our eligible employees
14. Pension Plan: We contribute up to 10% of your annual salary towards your pension
15. Family Friendly policies: We offer enhanced parental pay and paid time off for fertility treatment
16. Employee Discounts: Enjoy exclusive discounts on entertainment, travel, shopping, motoring and more
17. Volunteering Day: Contribute to causes you care about with one volunteering day per year
18. Life Assurance and Personal Accident Cover
Be flexible
We promote flexibility around how and where we work so that you can achieve a healthier work-life balance. We operate hybrid working, splitting our week between the London office and home, but expect travel to the HQ in Solihull on a quarterly basis.
Be yourself
As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome diversity and care about inclusion. That’s why we want you to be your whole self at work. We believe an inclusive workplace is good for each of us, great for our customers and better for our business. Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Network meets regularly to share challenges, experience, and ideas to build a more equal, diverse, and inclusive business.
Be heard
We listen to your point of view, with our People Forum and regular employee surveys making sure you can use your voice and influence our future.
Be well
We will give you access to a range of tools and resources to support your wellbeing. This will include a digital GP service via our free Employee Assistance Programme, access to our Wellbeing team to connect you with the help you need to get more out of life and our Vitality at Work programme to provide you with discounted gym membership, fitness equipment and another multitude of wellbeing services.
Be better
We want you to reach your potential and, as a Platinum Investors in People employer, we’ll encourage you to learn and develop by building a personalised development plan together with your manager.