We are currently recruiting an Assistant Company Secretary to provide support to the Head of LGC Secretariat and the wider LGC Secretariat in providing full company secretarial service to Legal & General Capital (“LGC”) and the legal entities within it.  

Sitting in the LGC Secretariat and working with a range of stakeholders within LGC and its operating business and investee companies, this role is responsible for supporting the LGC Secretariat in providing a full governance and company secretarial service to LGC and legal entities within it.

This is a wide ranging role, encompassing committee and board meeting support for the LGC business and its legal entities and supporting the wider LGC Secretariat on legal entity administration and ad-hoc projects for which the team is responsible. 

• Providing company secretarial services, ensuring all entities remain fully compliant with the provisions of the Companies Act 2006, including:
  • Oversight of the maintenance of all statutory records on Blueprint and ensuring all statutory filings are made with the Registrar of Companies within the relevant time frames
  • Oversight of the preparation and filing of Annual confirmation statements and other Companies House forms as required within the required timeframes
  • Ensuring the companies are in full compliance with their obligations under the Companies Act and other regulations where relevant.
• Providing meeting support to LGC’s committees and to boards/committees for legal entities within LGC including:
  • Acting as Secretary to these boards/committees by preparing agendas, distributing meeting packs, attending meetings and providing advice and guidance in respect of governance best practice; and
  • Taking minutes of the meetings, drafting any resolutions, and following up on actions.
• Providing support and guidance to junior members of both the LGC, Group and UK Secretariat teams; e.g. this could involve providing mentoring support to members of the teams studying for their ICSA exams and offering guidance and encouragement to members of Board Support team in compiling and issuing Board packs and in engaging with the executive and non-executive directors.
• Participating in LGC and Group Legal & Governance projects that will improve governance standards and the provision of company secretarial services across the LGC and the wider Group e.g. constitutional documents update, Diligent/Blueprint and Board portal maintenance, management of the subsidiary governance framework and legal entity rationalisation projects.
• Assisting with the year-end subsidiary accounts process. This will include liaising with the LGC and local Finance teams, reviewing subsidiary company accounts from a company secretarial and corporate governance perspective, arranging for the approval of accounts and ensuring that they are filed at Companies House within the appropriate filing deadline and the appropriate updating of Blueprint.
• Providing advice and support in ensuring that LGC maintains compliance with relevant regulatory requirements, including those of the FCA, PRA and Regulator of Social Housing and others as and when they arise. 
• Having primary responsibility for tasks such as:
  • the incorporation of new legal entities
  • the appointment and removal of directors to subsidiary company boards;
  • share allotments and transfers, reductions in capital and other related matters;
  • maintaining directors’ conflicts registers; 
  • ad-hoc transaction work.

• Fully-qualified or part-qualified Company Secretary (ICSA) with at least 2 years’ experience working in a FTSE or Financial Services/Investment Management/Private Equity/Real Estate secretariat.  
• Experience and understanding of the Company Secretarial function and corporate governance requirements;
• Good knowledge of the Companies Act 2006 and of directors’ role and responsibilities;
• Strong technical skills, including in respect of changes to share capital and reorganisations;
• Relevant regulatory knowledge, particularly with regard to Financial Services and what it means to be a Company Secretary in that environment; and
• An understanding of the Financial Services industry and/or Investment Management.  Experience in a real property and/or private equity setting would be an advantage.
• Ability to understand key stakeholders and sensitive to this and build own internal networks
• Ability to learn and maintain general knowledge of all businesses within LGC and the wider Group
• Strong minute-taking skills at board and committee level;
• Project management experience and experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams will be an advantage;
• Highly organised, thorough, demonstrating excellent attention to detail and a proactive, flexible approach

Whatever your role, we reward ability, performance and attitude with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Our employees have a wide range of benefits including a generous pension scheme, life assurance, 25 days’ holiday, private medical insurance, discretionary performance related bonuses, paid overtime, a variety of share schemes, discounts at both a huge range of high street stores and our own great products. Your hard work will be rewarded when you join us.