Assistant Company Secretary - London, United Kingdom - Babcock International

Babcock International

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London, United Kingdom

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Assistant Company Secretary:

Location: Westminster, London, GB, W1U 1QX
Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title:
Assistant Company Secretary

Location:
Westminster, London + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:
£55000- £65000 dependant on experience

Role Type:
Full time / Permanent

Role ID:
SF54532

At Babcock we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Assistant Company Secretary at our Wigmore Street Office.

The role of Assistant Company Secretary:

This role will see you reporting to and working closely with the Head of Secretariat, who reports to the Group General Counsel and Company Secretary, providing support on company secretarial/governance matters for the UK listed parent company and its subsidiaries.

You will be part of a small team, so flexibility and agility will be important to ensure that business needs are met.

This role will be hybrid with 2 to 3 days working from the office.

Key tasks of Assistant Company Secretary include:

Maintaining statutory and/or other records for all group entities, ensuring the timely submission of statutory filings for UK entities and the accuracy of information on Diligent Entities.
Keeping abreast of changing company and corporate law and other regulatory requirements and corporate governance practice generally and contributing to ensuring that Babcock is compliant and responding to best practice.
To carry out company secretarial duties for a joint venture company including distributing agendas, attending meetings, and taking minutes, along with supporting on Corporate Projects.
Maintaining the Group's Restricted Dealing List and any Insider Lists using InsiderHub.
Assisting in the drafting and release of routine RNS announcements and FCA filings for directors' interests in shares.
Assisting with aspects of the Group Annual Report and the Annual General Meeting.
Ensuring the Company Secretariat has documented and streamlined checklists and processes to manage key activities, identifying opportunities to streamline and enhance them, and keeping them under review.

Essential experience of the Assistant Company Secretary:

Educated to degree level or equivalent working experience.
Associate of the Chartered Governance Institute or studying towards it.
Highly organised, process driven and detailorientated especially in written work
Strong communication skills and ability to interact confidently with people at all levels
Selfmotivated, as well as a strong team player with a keen sense of ownership and desire for continuous improvement.
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

Generous holiday allowance
Matched contribution pension scheme up to 8% of salary, with life assurance
Employee share scheme
Employee shopping savings portal
Payment of Professional Fees
Reservists in the armed forces receive 10days special paid leave
Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows most employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement

- 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity

Babcock International
For over a century Babcock International have helped to defend nations, protect communities, and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

Closing date: 05/12/23

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