Your Role
and What You'll Be Doing
The role of the Senior Manager is to support the Company Secretary and General Counsel to ensure that the group make effective and efficient decisions in a legal and regulatory compliant way.
1. Leading the day-to-day operations of the Group Corporate Governance and Company Secretariat function working in conjunction with the General Counsel Leadership Team.
2. Shaping and delivering an annual departmental plan including budgeting, resource planning and prioritisation
3. Running all Group and Subsidiary Board and Committee meetings, including preparing annual meeting plans, agendas, training and liaising with non-Executives and external parties as required.
4. Supporting the wider General Counsel team with policies and procedures, prepare and maintain all requisite registers, consents to deal, communications and announcements.
5. Undertaking various corporate governance projects as required, including but not limited to reviews of terms of reference and matters reserved for the Board, oversight of project insider lists, scheduling of Stock Exchange announcements, block listing activities and annual reporting requirements.
6. Maintaining accurate records relating to share capital, including all employee and discretionary share plan transactions and incentives.
About You
7. ICSA qualified with significant company secretarial experience.
8. Experienced in managing and developing a small team.
9. Highly organised, process driven and detail-oriented, especially in written work.
10. Strong communication skills and ability to interact confidently with people at all levels.
11. An ability to establish credibility with and inspire confidence in all stakeholders, and to exercise judgment in dealing with sensitive and confidential issues.
Our Benefits - What We Can Offer You
12. Flexible working options - Make work fit around your life, not the other way around.
13. 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can ‘buy’ up to 35hrs of extra holiday too
14. Generous and flexible pension schemes.
15. Volunteering days – Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)
16. Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.
We also offer a wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you’re fully supported to work in a way that best suits you. This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over how they wish to work subject to role and client requirements.
We have recently been ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2023!
Our responsible business programmes are fundamental to who we are and our purpose. We’re committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our colleagues can flourish, and we have established a number of inclusion network groups across our business to support this aim.
Our commitment to Social Responsibility, community investment activity and tackling climate change is a fundamental part of who we are. It’s made up of four strands: Our People, Our Community, Our Environment and Our Pro Bono.