Company Secretarial Assistant

Opportunity has arisen to join the legal and company secretarial team of a global US listed business as the Company Secretarial Assistant and paralegal for the UK. You will have a varied role advising the business on company secretarial and statutory compliance issues as well as broader legal matters such as commercial contracts, compliance and disputes.

Duties include:

- Drafting standard form contracts.

- Dealing with minor litigation.

- Statutory compliance for circa 100 Group subsidiaries which includes:

• maintenance of statutory registers on CoAct Online Company Secretary software.
• year end work in conjunction with the Accounts Team e. preparation of dormant company balance sheets, answering queries from the auditors and checking and filing report and accounts.
• changes in directors and secretaries.
• checking and filing annual compliance.

- Drafting board minutes and other corporate documentation.

- Providing advice to UK operations and Corporate HQ on statutory matters, company structure (providing organisation charts where required) arranging for documents to be notarised and legalised where necessary.

- Liaison with external agencies such as Companies House and internal departments such as Accounts, Tax and Treasury.

- Administer Competition, Anti-Bribery and other compliance programmes.

- Coordinate responses to enquiries from Corporate HQ in response to stock exchange listings and SOX requirements.

- Drafting land registry forms and other standard property documentation and undertaking property searches.

- Legal research

- Assistance in design of and implementation of processes, structures and guidelines for company-wide management of legal matters.

We are keen to hear from individuals currently working in a company secretarial or paralegal capacity with company secretarial experience gained in a law firm or corporate environment. As this is a broad company secretarial and legally focussed role we are seeking an individual who would like to develop their experience across these areas.

If you're interested in this role, please apply now or forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us.
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