Company Secretary

3 months ago


Bristol, United Kingdom Somerset Bridge Group Full time

Location - Bristol

Employment Type - Full Time - Permanent

Salary - Up to £75,000

Hours Per Week - 37.5

As Company Secretary, you’ll ensure SBG complies with financial and legal requirements, as well as maintaining our high standards of corporate governance. You will develop close working relationships across the group with executive and non-executive Directors, and internal teams such as Legal, Regulatory Services, Risk, Data Protection and external suppliers.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Drafting agendas, preparing board packs, taking minutes at meetings and following up on actions
- Maintaining corporate governance policies, making sure they are kept up to date and referred to the appropriate committee for approval
- Facilitate good communication between the board, committees, senior management and non-executive directors, and shareholders
- Monitor changes in relevant legislation and the regulatory environment and take appropriate action
- Statutory compliance, ensuring all filings are made with Companies House
- Dealing with correspondence, collating information and writing reports; ensuring decisions made are communicated to the relevant company stakeholders
- Liaising with external advisers, such as lawyers and auditors
- Facilitate the nominations and remunerations committees
- Manage group insurances

**Required Skills/Experience**:

- ICSA or equivalent
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Attention to detail and a well-organised approach to work
- Keen interest in staying current with legislation
- The ability to prioritise work and to work well under pressure
- Confidence to provide support to company staff and board members
- Integrity and discretion when handling confidential information
- Commercial awareness
- Stakeholder management

Our Benefits:

- Hybrid working - 2 days in the office and 3 days working from home
- 25 days annual leave, rising to 27 days over 2 years’ service and 30 days after 5 years’ service. Plus bank holidays
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Pension scheme - 5% employee, 6% employer
- Flexi-time
- Healthcare Cash Plan - claim cashback on a variety of everyday healthcare costs
- 100’s of exclusive retailer discounts
- Professional wellbeing, health & fitness app - Wrkit
- Enhanced parental leave, including time off for IVF appointments
- Religious bank holidays - if you don’t celebrate Christmas and Easter, you can use these annual leave days on other occasions throughout the year.
- Life Assurance - 4 times your salary
- 25% Car Insurance Discount
- 20% Travel Insurance Discount
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Employee Referral Scheme
- Community support day
- Christmas and Summer parties

Working at SBG

At Somerset Bridge Group we aim to build a sustainable and innovative business focused on underwriting, broking and claims handling of UK motor insurance, offering transparent products and an efficient and fair service to our policy holders.

We are very proud to have been awarded a Silver Accreditation from Investors in People We recognise that all of our people contribute to our success. That's why we are always looking for talented people to join our team - people who share our vision, who are passionate about what they do, and who want to be part of something special.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Somerset Bridge Group is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination or harassment of any kind based on race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, genetic factors or other characteristics protected by law. SBG makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, skills and business requirements.



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