Deputy Company Secretary

3 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Aldermore Bank PLC Full time

**Job title**: Deputy Company Secretary

**Salary**: Competitive plus excellent benefits

**Location**:Open - London**, **Reading, Manchester or Cardiff

Hybrid working - you will be able to work a blend of both home and office each week, 2/3 days in office and the remainder from home.

**Contract Type**:Permanent

**Hours**:Monday to Friday**, **35hrs a week

**The Vacancy**

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Deputy Company Secretary to join our Company Secretarial Team here at Aldermore. Reporting to the Company Secretary, as Deputy Company Secretary you will play a key role in ensuring that the Group’s corporate governance structure and processes support rapid implementation of strategy, deliver amazing outcomes for our stakeholders, whilst protecting the Group by ensuring that best practice from a regulatory and corporate governance perspective is maintained.

The Deputy Company Secretary is a vital role in our team. You will combine deep experience and technical knowledge with excellent management and leadership capabilities, to support the Company Secretary in delivering a first-class service to our stakeholders including our Team, the Board and the Executive Committee. The Co Sec Team is in the process of reviewing and enhancing the way it operates under the leadership of a new Group Company Secretary appointed in March 2023, who reports directly to the CEO. The Deputy Company Secretary will ensure the Team meets its day-to-day priorities and statutory obligations, whilst shaping the service proposition for the future. The Deputy Company Secretary will support, and deputise as necessary for the Company Secretary, whilst providing development, coaching, support, and guidance to team members on a day-to-day basis.

You will be comfortable working in a dynamic and fast paced environment, within a regulated business. You will embrace change and innovation, be stakeholder focussed and lean into opportunities for improvement with enthusiasm. You’ll role model Aldermore’s values and behaviour framework with a focus on building and maintaining fantastic stakeholder relationships. You may consider yourself to be an innovative thinker or influencer who is keen to adopt of new ways of working.

You will report into the Company Secretary who will be your line manager.

The principal role of the Deputy Company Secretary is to:

- support the Company Secretary in fulfilling the statutory and regulatory responsibilities of Aldermore Group (and its subsidiaries) and to fully deputise for the Company Secretary in acting as a trusted adviser to the Board, its Committees and the wider business. Where appropriate the role holder will assist in the provision of advice to the Executive Committee, General Counsel, Chairman and Board on governance issues.
- act as Secretary to selected Board and Executive Committees and in conjunction with the Company Secretary, provide direction and leadership to the Co Sec Team to create a best-in-class secretariat function and enhance the standards of governance throughout the Company.

**What would your day look like?**
- act as Line Manager for any direct report(s) and support the Company Secretary to manage the wider Co Sec Team on a day-to-day basis ensuring timely, accurate and high-quality output from the team as a whole
- support the Company Secretary in ensuring that the Group’s corporate governance structure and processes support rapid implementation of strategy
- assist in providing comprehensive support to the Company’s Board, Board Committees and Executive Committees (as appropriate) and to ensure the smooth running of these by assisting the Company Secretary, CEO, CFO and Chairman to set agendas, preparing, and presenting papers, minuting meetings, and advising the Executive Committees on governance and procedures
- where necessary, function as the primary point of contact and source of advice and guidance for the Executive Committees, in order to support the decision-making process
- arrange as appropriate training and inductions for the Board and Executive Committees
- ensure that the Company complies with all relevant statutory and regulatory requirements, in particular:

- to keep under close review all legislative, regulatory, and corporate governance developments that might affect the Company’s operations, ensuring that the Executive Committees are briefed on these and that they have regard to them when taking decisions and recommending them to Board
- support the Company Secretary to ensure compliance with all relevant rules and regulations, including the timely publication and dissemination of Report and Accounts and other periodic financial reporting
- act as an ambassador for the Co Sec Team both internally and externally
- promote the highest standards of corporate governance and act as a guardian of corporate integrity
- lead on preparing governance sections of the annual report and assist in the overall production of the annual report, providing

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