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Corporate Governance Manager London, England

Full Time London, England 47969 - 65969 GBP ANNUAL Today

Job description

Corporate Governance Manager

Job Req ID: 21591

Posting Date: 15 Aug 2023

Function: Legal and Governance

Location: One Braham (4140), London, United Kingdom

Salary: Competitive

Why this job matters

The Company Secretarial team plays a leading role in ensuring that BT Group and the Board complies with good corporate governance practice and associated laws and regulations. We support great decision-making across the business, make the complex simple and help drive BT’s success.

Within this role you will be key to supporting corporate governance compliance for our Board and Committees. You will be an integral part of BT and is an excellent opportunity for someone with strong corporate governance experience.

What you’ll be doing

Supporting the Deputy Company Secretary or Senior Managers, Corporate Governance with delivery of areas for BT Group plc Board, Committees and Directors, including inductions, evaluations and appointments as necessary
Responsibility for certain BT Group plc Board, management Committees and subsidiary companies, which includes creating agendas for agreement and Chair/ Secretary’s briefs as appropriate, minute taking as necessary, tracking actions and decisions, review of the Committee terms of reference (as required), and preparation and distribution of papers through the online electronic portal
Provide guidance and support to authors of Board and committee papers and reviewing of papers to ensure that they are fit for purpose and are compliant with the corporate governance framework
Assist with preparing and maintaining a rolling calendar for the respective Board Committee(s) supported
Assist on BT Group share plans (all-employee and executive) including drafting communications, liaising with external share plan administration support and dealing with participant queries
As necessary provide support on liaising with BT Group’s Share Registrar from a share registration side, including on any retail shareholder issues, and assisting the Senior Managers, Corporate Governance
Assist with dividend distributions to shareholders
Drafting and inputting into Annual Report and related documents as required
Drafting and inputting into the ancillary documents for the AGM including the Notice of meeting
Maintaining the Co Sec internal website, ensuring any updates are made in a timely manner, understanding the consequences of changes and impacts elsewhere and seeking sign-offs and support for external website changes (Co Sec pages) as necessary
Advise on compliance with corporate governance regulations and legislation
Advise on aspects of MAR or related regulation/legislation compliance
Assisting with supporting and advising on compliance with legislation and regulation for subsidiary companies and supporting the Senior Manager, Subsidiary Governance, as necessary
Draft and/or release ad hoc RNS announcements and related processes
Monitor the related party transactions mailbox
Support with ad hoc corporate and departmental projects

The skills you’ll need

Highly organised, able to prioritise and plan
Work under pressure and consistently to a high standard
Good analytical and problem-solving skills
Use initiative and is pro-active and can work independently
Excellent communications skills, both written and verbal
Persuasive, discreet and good stakeholder engagement skills with a wide range of people at all levels, including senior executives and Board members
Excellent attention to detail and reliable to produce accurate work
Be a team player and is flexible to work assist other members of the team with work to allow for the team to deliver for the business
Able to develop relationships both internally and externally
Making complex, technical governance concepts simple for other stakeholders to understand, this includes those located outside of the UK
Willingness to learn and take on new tasks
Able to support other members of the team and share knowledge
Able to accommodate as required out of hours working
Financial numeracy
Strong IT skills

Benefits

25 days’ annual leave, plus bank holidays, and additional days for length of service
10% on target bonus
Life Assurance
Pension scheme - If you pay in a minimum of 5% of your pensionable salary every month we will pay in 10%
50% off BT and EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans
Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages
BT TV, including BT Sport and the NOW Entertainment membership, and 25% off NOW Sport, Cinema and Kids
30% discount for friends and family on EE mobile pay monthly and SIM only plans
Shared Parental leave - maximum amount of leave you can share with your partner is 50 weeks
3 volunteering days per year
Competitive employee discount on BT/EE products
Competitive friends and family discount on EE Mobile
Access to our brand new, innovative office spaces, including our new office in London which opened this year
You’ll have access to our ongoing hospitality programme at key UK venues including Wembley Stadium.
True job satisfaction
Access and involvement with our incredible 11 People Networks including Able2 network, Carers network, Ethnic diversity network, Gender equality network and Pride network

A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch – I’d love to hear from you.

DON'T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT?

Studies have shown that women, people with long-term health conditions, disabilities, or are neurodiverse, and people from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace that feels deeply personal, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.”

About us

BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.

Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.

We value diversity and celebrate difference. As Philip Jansen, our CEO, says ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’

We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development.

This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.

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