Senior Assistant Company Secretary

4 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom Bupa Full time

**Senior Assistant Company Secretary, Insurance**

**Angel Court, London**

**Travel not usually required apart from Board/Committee meetings in Ireland**

**Hybrid Working Options**

**Full time (37.5hrs pw) and Permanent**

**Competitive Salary + Excellent Benefits**

Here you’ll be welcomed. We champion diversity and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. You’ll find an inclusive environment where you can be yourself and where everyone is driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.

**Role Overview**

The role holder will be part of the BGUK Legal function, reporting to the BGUK Company Secretary, Insurance. The role holder is expected to work in a fast paced and challenging, diverse environment. The BGUK Legal function is central to Bupa’s commercial operations and growth strategy. The role holder will be working closely with legal colleagues and other stakeholders from finance, operations, commercial, governance and compliance including company secretarial teams within the BGUK Provision and Bupa Group.

The principal part of the role is to support the BGUK Company Secretary Insurance and BGUK Company Secretary Insurance and Advisory Oversight Committee in ensuring the smooth running and effectiveness of the RE and BG DAC Boards and their respective Committee meetings, providing high quality advice and support across a broad range of company secretarial and departmental tasks and activities. This is a senior role that can provide advice to, and interact with, people at all levels of the organisation and is responsible for ensuring compliance with relevant company law, regulation and best practice, leading company secretarial and governance elements of transactions.

**What You’ll Do**:

- Supporting the BGUK Company Secretary Insurance to ensure the smooth running of all aspects of REB and BG DAC meetings including preparation and drafting of meeting agendas and minutes; co-ordination, review and distribution of papers via Diligent Boards (externally hosted electronic board paper portal); maintaining the forward agendas and matters arising schedules and administration of meeting logistics;
- Acting as Secretary, to the RE Executive Committee, arranging meetings, agenda setting, minuting meetings
- Acting as Secretary to the BG DAC Audit Committee and Risk Committee, arranging meetings, agenda setting, minuting meetings, etc;
- Supporting the BGUK Company Secretary Insurance with transactional matters, including arranging approvals from the BINS/BISL Urgency Committee;
- Providing advice and training to paper authors to ensure compliance with the guidelines in terms of paper format (including reviewing and amending draft papers where appropriate);
- Be the primary contact for all general enquiries relating to the organisation of the BG DAC Board and Committee meetings or information requests;

**What You’ll Bring**:

- Degree plus an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators.
- Company secretarial experience, particularly transaction work and corporate governance from a financial services firm or large multinational.
- Excellent planning and organisational skills with the ability to juggle and prioritise a number of different activities whilst working to strict deadlines and to maintain an up-to-date schedule of outstanding/continuing actions.
- Flexibility will be required to work outside normal business hours when required, particularly around scheduled Board / Committee meetings.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to communicate at a senior level and the ability to be pro-active, including the ability to influence and be listened to.

**Why Bupa?**

We are a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. We reinvest profits into providing more and better healthcare for the benefit of current and future customers.

Our benefits are driven by what matters to our people. It’s important to us that these benefits support a work-life balance that keeps people healthy, both mentally and physically. You will be eligible for:

- 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
- Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
- An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
- Annual performance-based bonus
- Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
- Various other benefits and online discounts

**Diversity and Inclusion**

Bupa is committed to making sure that every applicant is assessed based on personal merit and qualifications. We actively celebrate the diversity of our colleagues and provide an inclusive environment so you can truly be you at Bupa. We want to ensure you are treated fairly. That’s why we’re happy to offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

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