Company Secretary Support London, England
Job description
Company Secretary Support
London
As a Barclays Company Secretary Support, you will get an exciting opportunity to assist BBUK Company Secretary and Deputy Company Secretary in their duties in relation to the BBUK Board and Board Committees. In your role, you will liaise with Executive Committee members’ offices and Directors to plan and execute meetings and ensure the effective operation of Board and Board Committees in accordance with law and regulation, including corporate governance matters and external reporting.
Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality, and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.
At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.
What will you be doing?
- Assisting the BBUK Company Secretary and Deputy Company Secretary in providing company secretarial and corporate governance to BBUK actively
- Helping other members of the team, as and when required, and work on ad-hoc pro-jects relating to department-wide deliverables
- Ensuring the effective operation of the BBUK Board and Board Committees in accordance with law and regulation
- Ensuring the efficient administration of BBUK Board and Board Committee meetings actively
- Preparing, reviewing, and maintaining BBUK Board and Board Committee corporate governance documentation
- Assisting the BBUK Deputy Company Secretary in coordinating decisions to regulatory and other requests, ensuring that the correct procedures are followed
- Assisting the BBUK Deputy Company Secretary in relation to full-year and half-year results processes
- Demonstrated company secretarial, legal, governance and/or control and risk experience, ideally gained within a UK company of substantial size and complexity or a reputable legal firm
- Excellent IT skills and proficient user of Diligent Boardbooks (or similar), Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word
- Experience in prioritising competing demands, and ability to confidently operate under pressure in a fast-moving environment
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Qualified Chartered Governance Professional or Chartered Secretary (or close to completing/desire to complete the Programme) or a UK-qualified lawyer
- Knowledge of corporate governance principles and practices
- Knowledge of relevant legal and regulatory requirements, in particular the UK Companies Act 1985 and 2006 (and related legislation)
- Utmost discretion when handling confidential material
Where will you be working?
In the heart of Canary Wharf, our headquarters at Churchill Place boasts onsite amenities such as: a gym, staff restaurant and deli bar, and is easily accessible by tube and bus links. With a population of around 5000 staff the atmosphere is second to none with a real buzz being created around the offices within.
#LI-Hybrid
GF2021
