Company Secretary

3 weeks ago

Belfast, United Kingdom Kainos Full time

**Our people love the exciting and meaningful work they do, the cutting-edge resources and technology they have access to, the benefits we offer and the great community we’ve built. Want to join them?**

**COMPANY SECRETARY & COMPLIANCE ASSISTANT**

As Company Secretary & Compliance Assistant at Kainos, you will responsible for supporting the Group Company Secretary and the Corporate and Share Schemes Manager with a variety of company secretarial, corporate governance and employee share scheme tasks in relation to Kainos Group plc and its subsidiary companies.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Working collaboratively to install high standards of corporate governance across the Kainos Group, seeking opportunities to add value and assist with the delivery of excellent service across the team’s key accountabilities;
- Assisting with statutory compliance for Kainos Group;
- Ability to conduct legal research to support the handling of corporate governance matters and regulatory obligations in various jurisdictions.
- Assisting with preparations for the Annual General Meeting;
- Maintaining annual compliance calendars to ensure deadlines are met;
- Supporting tasks such as the incorporation of new legal entities, appointment and removal of directors, share allotments and transfers (and other related matters), and ad hoc transaction work;
- Assisting with all activities required to support the end to end award and vesting of global employee share schemes;
- Liaising with external and internal stakeholders on both corporate governance and share scheme matters;
- Producing, maintaining and updating databases and collateral as appropriate;
- Assisting Global Head of Commercial, General Counsel and CFO as required.

**Minimum (essential) **requirements**:

- Educated to degree level with a minimum of 2-3 years’ experience in company secretarial/compliance environment.
- Excellent drafting, communication, and negotiation skills.
- Good commercial awareness and understanding of project and business dynamics.
- Ability to work with mínimal supervision and escalate matters where necessary.
- Ability to work efficiently and prioritise your workloads in a fast-paced environment, delivering a high level of accuracy and attention to detail within tight timeframes.
- A self-starter who can work on their own initiatives with mínimal supervision and escalate matters when necessary.
- Good verbal and written communication skills with the ability to build trusted relationships with both staff and external stakeholders.
- We all work in teams here in Kainos - a proven ability of strong team skills, including taking direction from others, is crucial.
- Highly flexible, including willingness to work flexible hours at peak times.
- Concise, articulate, analytical and enthusiastic.
- Business and pragmatic focus approach to work with positive attitude.
- Conscientious, approachable, and credible.

**Desirable**:

- Company secretarial experience in listed environment is highly desirable but not a prerequisite.
- Educated to degree level.
- Exposure to employee share schemes administration and management.
- Experience training and delegating to more junior staff.

**WHO YOU ARE**:
Our vision is to enable outstanding people to create digital solutions that have a positive impact on people’s lives. Our values aren't abstract; they are the behaviours we expect from each other every day and underpin everything that we do. We expect everyone to display our values by being **determined** in how obstacles are overcome; **honest** when dealing with others; **respectful** of how you treat others; **creative** to find solutions to complex problems and **cooperative** by sharing information, knowledge and experience. These values, applied collectively, help to produce an outstanding Kainos person, team and culture.

In short: Having a criminal record will not exclude you from a career with Kainos. This depends entirely on the nature and requirements of the position, together with the circumstances and background of offences. Kainos has a policy on the recruitment of ex-offenders (available on request).

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