Trainee Company Secretarial Assistant London, England
Job description
What you'll do
The individual would be part of a strong Corporate Secretariat team providing robust, timely and professional support to the Assistant Head of Corporate Secretariat and delivering excellent company secretarial service to Vodafone Group Plc and its subsidiaries. The individual will have an opportunity to work across the full range of corporate secretariat activities ensuring the individual develops a breadth of company secretarial skills and experience.
- Corporate governance – Work as part of a team to deliver on the corporate governance requirements for Vodafone Group Plc including maintaining accurate insider lists, drafting stock exchange announcements, preparing EDGAR filings, drafting sections of the annual report.
- Systems management – Maintain the Group’s structure chart through administering Blueprint One World for the global organisation, ensuring information is accurate and up to date. Keep the relevant pages of the Group website up to date.
- Share capital administration – maintaining accurate records relating to share capital, including reconciling share registry on a daily basis. Assist with share grants and vesting. Update director share interests spreadsheet and prepare relevant regulatory releases.
- Private company compliance activities –Conduct compliance work for approx. 60 UK Group entities. Produce and file the annual statements and accounts for subsidiary companies liaising with finance stakeholders and auditors.
- Adhoc projects: Provide assistance and support for corporate projects that may arise from time to time, including company name changes, director changes, acquisitions, disposals and restructuring and other Group Tax/Group Treasury driven projects.
Who you are
- Technical knowledge: Working knowledge and familiarity with the UK Companies Act, Corporate Governance Code and UK listing rules (US experience is an advantage, but not essential).
- Organisational skills: Proven excellent organisational and forward planning skills. Ability to prioritise workload and manage deadlines.
- Educated to degree level and a Grad ICSA (or committed to obtain such status)
- Prior experience in Corporate Secretariat function in a plc is desirable.
- Strong IT skills including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Blueprint OneWorld
Not a perfect fit?
Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about Inclusion for All and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another role, and our recruitment team can help you see how your skills fit in.
What's in it for you
- Discretionary yearly bonus: 5%
- Annual leave: 28 days + bank holidays + the opportunity to buy/sell/carry over 5 days/year
- Charity days: 5 days/year
- Maternity/adoption leave: 52 weeks out of which 39 weeks are fully paid + 13 weeks half pay and 6 months - working 4 days, getting paid 5
- Paternity leave: 16 weeks fully paid
- Private pension: You can contribute up to 5% of your basic pay with 2:1 matching from Vodafone up to 10%.
- Access to: private medical, private dental, free health assessments, share save scheme
- Additional discounts: Vodafone retail, gym, cinema, cycle to work, season ticket loan
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