Job Title: Senior Assistant Company Secretary
Location: Wigmore Street, London + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Shape governance at the heart of a global organisation driving national security
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Assistant Company Secretary at Wigmore Street, London
The role
As a Senior Assistant Company Secretary, you’ll step into a high-impact role at the centre of our Group Secretariat function. You’ll combine hands-on technical delivery with strategic thinking, influencing governance frameworks, systems, and processes. Your work will directly support international growth, corporate restructuring, and compliance making a meaningful contribution to a business that underpins defence, aerospace, and critical infrastructure.
Day-to-day, you’ll be:
1. Managing statutory records, filings, and compliance for UK entities and supporting global governance activities
2. Supporting UK listed obligations including regulatory announcements, annual reports, and annual general meeting processes
3. Overseeing subsidiary governance across multiple jurisdictions and liaising with internal and external stakeholders
4. Maintaining and improving entity management systems, ensuring accurate and reliable governance data
5. Driving process improvements, standardisation, and automation across company secretarial activities
6. Responsible for guiding and supporting a Trainee
This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and is based at Wigmore Street, London. Hybrid working patterns are available with 3 days office based.
Essential experience of the Senior Assistant Company Secretary
7. Demonstrating strong company secretarial experience within a UK listed environment (including regulatory compliance and reporting)
8. Managing subsidiary governance across multiple jurisdictions
9. Delivering statutory compliance, filings, and governance processes at scale
10. Working with governance systems and driving data integrity and process improvements
11. Operating both strategically and hands-on with a proactive, ownership-driven mindset
Qualifications for the Senior Assistant Company Secretary
12. Degree-level education
13. Chartered Governance Institute qualification
14. Strong knowledge of United Kingdom company law and corporate governance requirements
15. Proven ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE organisation with over 26, people working together to make a difference.
Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.
We call that lifetime engineering.
Join us and see how far we can go, together.
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