Assistant Company Secretary

About the Role
We’re excited. We’re growing globally, and we’re looking to supplement our company secretarial and governance team to provide advice and support across our group.

This role is for you if you:

• have solid experience from previous company secretarial roles, and enjoy the work
• appreciate the opportunity to work autonomously, but as part of a collegiate and supportive team
• are adaptable and flexible in line with business needs, with a genuine interest in professional growth
• relish getting stuck in on the day to day

This role sits within the General Counsel’s office, comprising Legal, Company Secretarial, Risk & Assurance. Our team is highly regarded throughout WorldRemit; working together, let’s keep it that way.

Responsibilities

• Supporting the Company Secretarial Manager and the General Counsel on the operation and governance of our group of companies globally
• Liaising with local directors, law firms and other external advisers to deliver timely advice and support in line with business needs
• Supporting horizon scanning on company and corporate governance topics
• Maintaining systems to ensure timely and accurate corporate and regulatory filings with companies registries and regulators globally
• Corporate database management and delivering against information requests
• Subsidiary board support and the drafting of relevant corporate authorities, resolutions and other documents
• Effective working with internal stakeholders (such as our Compliance, Finance, Tax and Commercial teams) to:

1. Ensure group company management in accordance with our Legal Entity policy
2. Raise awareness of the importance of proper corporate governance
3. Support the maintenance of capital positions in line with group policies (e.g., issue of shares, share reorganisations, dividend payments)

• Assisting with regulatory licence applications, insurance renewals and Companies House filings
• Supporting management of our senior staff equity scheme
• Contribution to team development, scaling, efficiency and improvement

Experience & attributes

• Qualified or part qualified chartered secretary in the UK, ideally with least 2-3 years of experience
• User friendly, and enjoys building good and lasting relationships
• A real willingness to engage with different cultures and styles is key, and international experience a plus
• Ability to successfully balance being a team player and working alone
• Responsible, conscientious, pragmatic, proactive, motivated and a problem-solver
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including the ability to converse effectively and succinctly with senior stakeholders
• Willingness to learn and share learnings
• Intellectual curiosity and good attention to detail
• Tech savvy
• Foreign language skills (especially French) highly desirable

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Life assurance of 3 times your salary, should the worst happen
• Pension scheme offering 8% matched contributions
• Private medical and dental care plans
• 25 days of holiday plus bank holidays, rising to 28 after 3 years
• Daily free breakfast, fruit and regular Friday ‘afternoon tea’ drinks and nibbles
• No formal dress code