Legal Operations and Company Secretary Co-ordinator

1 month ago


London, United Kingdom Fastmarkets Full time

We are supported by a working model that is based on a hybrid approach that allows each of us to balance home and office working while encouraging effective collaboration and accountability.
Our price data, forecasts, and market analyses give our customers strategic advantage in complex, volatile, often opaque markets. Fastmarkets works to create transparent commodity markets through our reliable and trusted price data and market intelligence. By doing this, Fastmarkets helps our customers build a more sustainable world. We are built on a 130-year foundation while bringing a digital platform to market, combining the currency of trust with the power of digital.

With a deep sense of purpose and belonging, we are building an extraordinary future – together. If you would like to help build the future, we hope you will join us on our journey.

It is owned by global private equity firm Astorg, a specialist investor in healthcare, software, technology, business services and technology-based industrial companies.

To support the Legal, Risk and Compliance function (LRC) by managing Fastmarkets’ the day-to-day administration of the team and support with company secretarial responsibilities.
The role will triage all general queries received by the team, assisting the team on projects, managing the processing of invoices and expenses and organising team meetings.
In addition to this, a key part of the role is to assist with the management of the provision of company secretarial services for the group’s legal entities and directors, including: assisting the General Counsel with the preparation of board and committee packs, statutory compliance, maintaining statutory books, drafting and lodging required forms with Companies House in the UK and international regulatory bodies, liaising with local counsel regarding company secretarial matters, document preparation, execution and general administration.
LRC is responsible for managing legal, risk, compliance, privacy, Co Sec and ESG on a global basis across the business. The General Counsel reports to the CEO and the team is viewed as a genuine business partner, critical to helping the organisation deliver its strategy.

Manage the administration of the LRC team including document and resource management
Provide co-ordination and secretarial support on ad hoc projects, including M&A integration, group reorganisations, new company incorporations and entity strike offs
Manage the provision of company secretarial services for the group’s legal entities and directors.
Liaise with local counsel regarding company secretarial matters, document execution and general subsidiary management
Draft and lodge required forms with Companies House in the UK and international regulatory bodies
Assist with the coordination and preparation of statutory accounts and governance reports for the group
Administration of new starters in the team
Other ad hoc UK and international company secretarial work as required from time to time


Experience as a Legal administrator supporting a busy team.
Experience of Company Secretary duties within a small private company
Excellent Microsoft Office skills (particularly MS Word and PPT)
Experience working with directors (or equivalent) and other senior leaders
A flexible can-do approach to relevant issues and to act promptly to ensure situations are dealt with appropriately, effectively and with professionalism
Ability to learn to work with in-house software packages or databases (eg CSC, Visio)
We use insights to improve our customers’ experience and our business performance
We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.



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