Senior Assistant Company Secretary Job Description
This role in a global FTSE100 retailer is crucial to ensuring the effective functioning of the company secretarial team. You will be supporting a growing team in a fast paced, entrepreneurial organisation. The role is wide and varied, with plenty of opportunities for development.
Reporting to the Deputy Company Secretary, you will be part of a growing team covering a variety of company secretarial responsibilities. This will suit an ambitious, capable and hardworking candidate who is keen to enhance governance & compliance processes within the Group.
This role is to support the business over a busy year end period and would suit a candidate who can start immediately or at short notice.
This is a hybrid role based in Bury, Manchester.
Accountabilities:
• Working with the Deputy Company Secretary to manage end-to-end board and committee process, such as drafting agendas, assisting with the creation of board papers and uploading papers to our board portal
• Managing UK & international subsidiaries and ensuring compliance with the global governance framework
• Managing day to day Market Abuse Regulation compliance including maintenance of insider and confidentiality lists and monitoring training
• Supporting with the Annual Report & Accounts, including drafting & reviewing content, and liaising with auditors and other internal and external stakeholders
• Leading the AGM and other shareholder meetings
• Managing the director induction processes and maintaining director induction, training and conflict registers
• Lead on corporate projects, such as legal entity rationalisation
• Monitoring, and where necessary improving, the corporate governance arrangements for the Group
• Liaising with other departments as required to provide company secretary support, such as on M&A
• Supporting and mentoring other members of the team
• Deputising for the Deputy Company Secretary where required.
Key skills & qualifications:
• CGI qualified (essential)
• At least 8 years’ experience in a company secretarial role
• Good understanding of the corporate governance and regulatory requirements of a listed organisation
• Excellent attention to detail and highly organised
• Ability to build relationships with key stakeholders
• Prior line management or mentoring experience (desirable)