Southern Staffordshire plc - Assistant Company Secretary

Southern Staffordshire plc - Assistant Company Secretary

£Competitive, Hybrid working (2-3 days wfh)

Walsall, West Midlands

South Staffordshire Plc, as well as owning two regulated clean water companies (South Staffs and Cambridge Water) is a trusted provider of essential services across regulated industries, delivering specialist engineering, asset management, and compliance services to a wide range of clients, including utility companies, local authorities, and organisations with critical infrastructure. Recently the business is forming a more formal governance structure and they are now seeking an Assistant Company Secretary to support the General Counsel in the smooth running of the company secretariat. This is a very interesting role that will support the running of Board and Board Committees across the Group, and ensure all relevant statutory requirements are met. If you are looking for that next role, in a very commercial environment, then please get in contact.

Key responsibilities:

• ensure the Group's UK subsidiaries and holding companies are compliant with the Companies Act 2006 and all other relevant statutory requirements.
• staying up to date with company secretarial, and corporate governance matters, advise the General Counsel on changes in legislation affecting corporate governance.
• deliver best practice company secretarial support for Boards, Committees, Executive Meetings and ad hoc meetings.
• Provide end-to-end support for Board and Committee meetings across the group
• Provide advice on and facilitate compliance with relevant statutory and regulatory company secretariat and governance requirements
• Managing a junior member of the team
• Managing individual company secretarial, governance and corporate projects.

Experience and key attributes:

• Proven experience in a similar role and ideally in a regulated sector
• Strong knowledge of corporate governance principles
• Minute taking capability of a consistent high-quality standard and conducive to serving a regulated entity
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• High-level of attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively as part of a team is essential
• Experience in using BoardVantage or similar board portal software and entity management software.

Reference 2431

The Core Partnership is exclusively retained on this assignment.  To find out more, please contact Henry Rymer on 020 3589 0333 or email [email protected] quoting Assignment 2430. (Any direct or third party applications will be forwarded to The Core Partnership).

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