Part time Company Secretarial role

This role will report directly into the Company Secretary and will involve the following duties:

• Organisation and servicing of the Audit and Ethics, Remuneration and Budget Committees (agenda, papers, minutes, tracking actions, terms of reference Board evaluations, director inductions
• Ownership of the Board's annual meeting schedule and forward agenda
• Responsible for the accurate and timely publication of Stock Exchange announcements including but not limited to block-listings, total voting rights, directors' dealing, major shareholders' (TR1), interim and annual results announcements, trading updates
• MAR compliance: maintaining Group's insider lists; requests to deal; delayed disclosure records; advising employees on the share dealing code's requirements and insiders' obligations
• Updating content on company website
• AGM: Ownership of the logistics of the Annual General Meeting to ensure that it takes place on time and to budget
• Responsibility for the first draft of the notice of meeting, ancillary documents and Chairman's script and, through the Legal team and external lawyers, to ensure that these documents are approved and distributed as appropriate
• Managing the production and publication of the annual report and online review,liaising with external provider (and ownership of this relationship with the external provider)
• Responsible for the first drafts of the director's report, corporate governance section, remuneration report, and shareholder information sections of the annual repor
• Point of contact for shareholder services: Share issues, dividends, shareholder enquiries
• Responsible for ensuring that the business is kept abreast of relevant changes to legislation through researching topics and the production of briefing papers. Ownership of the maintenance and updating of statutory registers including the register of major shareholders, the register of director's interests and the register of issued share capital
• Subsidiary governance: company secretarial support for our subsidiaries, including: support for corporate activities (board changes, dividend payments; share capital reductions, dissolutions, banking facilities) maintaining statutory registers and company records; completing statutory filings (annual confirmation statements, PSC registers); drafting board minutes/resolutions; articles of association; review/board approval/filing of statutory accounts; integration of new/acquired businesses into the Group
• Keeping up to date with developments in company law/corporate governance and developing the companies processes in line with changing best practice

We are really flexible on hours and days, the main criteria for this role is someone with listed experience.

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