Assistant Company Secretary

Salary: £48,000 – £60,000 per year

Highly successful, international corporation require high calibre Assistant Company Secretary to join their expanding group.

This is a superb opportunity for a relevantly experienced candidate to undertake a newly created role to support the Company Secretary, Finance Director & Group Chief Executive of an expanding group of companies that are set to continue this expansion via both organic growth and targeted acquisition. This is a diverse role, encompassing a wide range of responsibilities.

Assistant Company Secretary – About The Role

* Maintenance of company books for all UK legal entities and oversight of company records for overseas entities.

* Share scheme administration – including grants, vestings, exercises, share issues, HMRC filings.

* Preparation of board minutes for routine subsidiary matters such as dividends, approval of accounts and banking-related transactions.

* Maintenance of insider lists and other record-keeping, as required by the Market Abuse Regulation.

* Support for M&A projects (both UK and overseas) including review of NDAs and completing post-acquisition integration activities such as updating constitutional documents, alignment of year-ends, appointments and resignations of directors – this will include liaison with overseas advisors as required.

* Companies House and related filings.

* Assisting with the annual report and accounts and related AGM.

* Assisting with the group’s ESG agenda – this aspect of the role will grow and evolve over time.

* Preparation and oversight of group policies.

* HR related admin – including processing of new starters, leavers, changes and administration of employee benefits.

The successful Assistant Company Secretary will have:

* Experience of working in a company secretarial function, maintaining records and knowledge of regulatory requirements.

* Excellent attention to detail.

* Ideally worked within a highly acquisitive business.

* Proactive, collaborative and self-starter.

* Good communicator, able to adapt to different styles of working.

* Pragmatic, low-ego, intelligent, numerate.

* Unquestionable ethics, honesty and integrity.

* Ideally ICSA (or similar) qualified; however, this is not essential and candidates who can demonstrate the ability to perform the role will be considered.

Assistant Company Secretary – Benefits

Highly competitive benefits package

Howett Thorpe are acting as a recruitment agency in relation to this role and comply with all relevant UK legislation and do not discriminate on any protected characteristics. Due to the high volume of applications we currently receive, we are unable to respond to all candidates. If you do not hear from a Consultant within 5 working days, please assume that you have not been successful.

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