Assistant Company Secretary - Basingstoke, United Kingdom - Sovereign Housing Association

Sovereign Housing Association

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Basingstoke, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

As a leading Housing Association, we are committed to providing quality, affordable homes and services within sustainable, successful communities.

We're led by our values and driven by a strong social purpose, placing our customers at the heart of everythingwe do.

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced
Assistant Company Secretaryto support our Governance team. You'll be based in our head office in Basingstoke with the flexibility to combine home and office working.

About the role

Reporting to the Head of Governance, your role will be the provision of corporate governance support and advice to all legal entities, and to business partner and offer meeting support for Board, Committee and General meetings.

Other responsibilities include:

Organising board, committee and shareholder meetings
Full governance and administration support of these meetings, including using our board portal to issue papers, arranging facilities, agenda preparation and taking and circulating minutes along with action points
Arranging the Annual General Meeting (AGM) and ensuring that Sovereign's shareholder register is accurate and maintained
Supporting and advising our board members outside meetings, including making arrangements for attendance at training sessions and external conferences
Supporting the recruitment and appraisals at Board level
Checking the accuracy of and sealing official and legal documents, maintaining Sovereign and its subsidiaries' seal registers in compliance with the signing and sealing policy

About you
You should have previous experience working in a similar role with similar responsibilities, and will have strong understanding of finance regulations and working in a regulated environment

You'll also:

Be confident in communicating with senior stakeholders at executive and board level, and able to support good decision making
Have a high attention to detail and be able to work with discretion as you'll be handling information which may be sensitive or confidential in nature
Take a logical and organised approach to your workload, effectively prioritising tasks and managing these to deadlines
Show experience in producing minutes for corporate meetings at a high standard
Show strong initiative, curiosity, and drive through your work
Be resilient, intuitive and possess strong relationship building and influential skills
Ideally, you'll be ICSA or CGI Qualified or part qualified we're open to different levels of qualification

Your benefits
You'll be given the opportunity to grow your skills within a role that will bring great satisfaction.

You'll be encouraged to bring your whole self to work and find like-minded people in a diverse and inclusive working community.

Some of our benefits include:
- £450 yearly flexible benefit pot to use against benefits of your choice

Flexible working working from home
25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays (with an extra day every year up to 30 days)
Chance to buy or sell holiday as part of our flexible benefits package
Generous matched pension scheme up to 12%
Options for private medical insurance, dental insurance and critical illness cover
Wellbeing discounts including Gym Memberships