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:
- 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 detail-orientated especially in written work
- Strong communication skills and ability to interact confidently with people at all levels
- Self-motivated, 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 judgement in dealing with sensitive and confidential issues.
The successful candidate must be able to achieve security clearance for this role.
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 10-days 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.
If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing date: 05/12/23
