Senior Company Secretarial Assistant (Senior Consultant, Professional Services)

JOB DESCRIPTION

Location: London or Bristol (Hybrid)
In this position, you'll be based in the London or Bristol office for a minimum of three days a week, with the flexibility to work from home for some of your working week. Find out more about our flexible work culture at computershare.com/flex.

We give you a world of potential
Today's Company Secretaries are under mounting pressure to deal with increasing corporate compliance, governance and reporting requirements, and as a result they are looking for partners who can provide a full suite of governance and company secretarial services.
Our fast-growing team of company secretarial and corporate governance specialists both in the UK and globally can now provide Computershare clients with a broad range of governance advisory and managed services to expand on and complement our existing Computershare Entity Solutions (CES) technology solutions.

• Support the delivery of listed plc and IPO client engagements.
• Advise clients on listed plc requirements, compliance, governance, and transaction related matters.
• Develop subject matter market insights, technical knowledge and service delivery templates, processes, tools, and materials.
• Mentor and develop junior team members.
• Attending client and Computershare hosted industry events.
• Keep up to date of both internal and external influences to help shape continuous growth and development of the EGC business and offering.
• Training and supporting junior colleagues in all aspects of listed company compliance and governance, enabling them to develop their career.
• Providing support to listed company boards and committees, which will include attendance at meetings in a minute taking and advisory capacity.
• Ensuring compliance with all continuing obligations such as Listing Rules and DTRs, Regulatory and Company Law requirements and compliance with Market Abuse Regulations (MAR).
• Organising and managing shareholder meetings including the preparation of all relevant notices and meeting documentation.
• Preparing and filing the relevant statutory filings and regulatory filings (Companies House, FCA, NSM).
• Preparing, coordinating and releasing regulatory announcements using a range of RIS portals.
• Providing advice and guidance on corporate governance best practice to a diverse portfolio of listed plc clients.
• Drafting non-financial sections of Annual and Half Year Reports and Accounts ensuring disclosures accurately reflect the client's governance practices and comply with relevant regulations, preparing and filing of relevant submissions and announcements on behalf of clients and project managing the process, where appropriate/required.
• Training and supporting junior colleagues in all aspects of listed company compliance and governance, enabling them to develop their career.
• Maintaining corporate registers from a regulatory, statutory and governance reporting requirements perspective.
• Maintenance of insider lists and facilitation of proper management of sensitive information.
• Coordinating board and committee annual evaluations.
• Monitoring directors' interests and conflicts of interest.
• Liaising with third party advisors such as the client's registrar, broker and legal advisors.

• Good company secretarial knowledge and corporate governance experience and a willingness to learn and try new things and work both independently and as part of a team.
• Experience working in a Professional Services environment would be beneficial but is not essential. Many of our team have an in-house background.
• Strong people, team working and communication skills.
• Experienced at building effective working relationships at all levels with clients and colleagues.
• Organised with strong project management skills.
• Awareness of legal, regulatory and governance trends and developments.
• An eye for detail and experienced at delivering to tight deadlines.
• Strong written English, numeracy, analytical and comprehension skills.
• Resilient and composed under pressure, proactive, self-motivated, take ownership/responsibility for own work.
• Advanced IT skills (incl. Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel) and experience of using legal entity management technology.
• Qualified or pursuing CGI qualification .