Governance Specialist

Management Level

G

Equiniti is a leading international provider of shareholder, pension, remediation, and credit technology. With over 6000 employees, it supports 37 million people in 120 countries.

EQ's vision is to be the leading global share registrar, offering complementary services to its client base and our values set the core foundations to our success. We are **TRUSTED **to deliver on our commitments, **COMMERCIAL **in building long term value, **COLLABORATIVE **in our approach and we **IMPROVE **by continually enhancing our skills and services. **There has never been a better time to join EQ.**

**Role Description**:
Looking for a Governance Specialist, to work within a team, responsible for the operational delivery of Corporate Actions tasks. The Governance Specialist is responsible for monitoring successful completion of governance and procedural activities that should be completed by the Corporate Action Task Specialists: supporting workflow, reports, audits, escalations, non-conformance or compliance corrections and quality output in the context of a business-wide governance system. The Governance Specialist will take a proactive approach to understanding EQ's governance processes and how this links to EQ's systems, both locally on team and with relevant business-wide systems and processes that interact with the Corporate Actions team. The Governance Specialist should take a positive interest in incoming regulatory and compliance changes and how this may impact the team.

**Business Functions**:
The Corporate Actions team within Service Operations, EQ Boardroom works on Corporate Actions from the perspective of the Registrar. In this capacity, the team orchestrates the UK's largest and most complex corporate actions - from Takeovers and Scheme of Arrangements to Rights Issues and Initial Public Offerings. The nature of this work is extremely project driven and client focused; bespoke solutions satisfying a client's precise requirements are developed in communication with the clients, their advisors and their lawyers and impacting on many other areas of the business.

**Core duties and responsibilities**:

- Working closely with colleagues from the wider business to understand task requirements, including participation in internal and external meetings.
- Overseeing and supporting task specialists to carry out task related activities in line with task timetables, this may include both off and on system processing work.
- Promoting best practice in task management and Corporate Actions working practices.
- Embracing and contributing to a culture of continuous improvement, demonstrating a willingness to get involved in reviewing procedures / processes.
- Monitoring of timesheet completion and comparison to Project time captured within Workday. Work with Team Manager to ensure alignment across team by end of each month.
- Monitor, track and (where relevant) support completion of Quality Assurance returns.
- Ad Hoc support for projects / audits / system testing and support of other Boardroom Teams' activities.
- Task planning and tracking including the identification of key deliverables, milestones, and the identification of resource requirements.
- Supporting other members of the team to develop their skills and knowledge of Corporate Actions tasks and activities.
- Considering tasks risks and any impact of regulatory requirements and escalating where appropriate.

**Skills, Attributes and Behaviour**:

- Develop knowledge of local and relevant business-wide governance procedures and processes.
- Good PC skills, including Excel, Word, and Outlook.
- Good verbal and written communications skills to internal and external stakeholders. Clear and logically presented.
- Proactive, self-motivated.
- High level of attention to detail and accuracy.
- Professionalism, Integrity, and Empathy - consideration of colleagues. Consider your brand; how do people view you?
- Organisation - Management of multiple tasks and conflicting priorities.
- Commitment to improvement - of processes, and yourself.
- A willingness to work up and outside of your role - reliability and responsibility results in opportunities for progress.
- Maintain a positive attitude - errors will happen. Some may be your fault. It's how you handle these that matter, and what you learn from them; escalation and following procedure supports you.

**What We Offer**
- **Save For Your Future**:

- Equiniti Pension Plan; Equiniti matches your pension contributions up to 10%
- **All Employee Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) **- Gives all EQ Colleagues the opportunity to benefit if the current owners successfully sell the company for a profit.
- **Health and Wellbeing **- Employee Assistance Programme: counselling, legal & wellbeing support for colleagues and their households. Life assurance cover at 4x salary with the ability to purchase enhance cover.
- **Employee discounts **- Discounts and cashback at your favourite high street stores through ou