Company Secretary

Flexible Working Company Secretary job opportunity - Gloucester

Your new company
This award winning company have a strong presence in specialist markets and pride themselves on their commitment to their customers and their expert, ethical approach. They work closely with specialist partners and now have an exciting opportunity for a Company Secretary to join their Legal and Secretarial Team.

Your new role
You will be providing professional and technical support to the Strategic Business Units Board of Directors and the Group Executive Team, ensuring that statutory and governance practices are implemented to the highest standards and to identify, assess and act upon current, new and emerging legislation and legal/governance risks that may impact the business units. You will work closely with key stakeholders across the Group to ensure emerging legislation/regulation (EU and UK) is appropriately actioned in the business and provide independent assessment of progress made to the Risk Committees and the Board Committees. In addition, you will lead specific projects across the Group working effectively with key external legal, regulatory, and other stakeholders to deliver results.

What you'll need to succeed
As an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators or equivalent, you will have extensive board support experience and ideally have worked in the Financial Services sector. Post qualification experience in at least an Assistant Company Secretarial role and experience of working in a diverse PLC Group would be highly beneficial.

You should be experienced in dealing with, and presenting to, Senior Executives, Non- Executive Directors and Board Committees and possess an In depth knowledge of Companies Act and awareness of other legislative requirements. You should demonstrate sound and commercial judgement and the ability to design practical and proportionate solutions.

What you will get in return
You will have the opportunity to build effective relationships with key stakeholders, including Directors, executives and senior managers. Salary is highly competitive, in addition to which you will receive an excellent range of benefits. Flexible working is on offer, with the opportunity to work from home 1 or 2 days a week.

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