Assistant Company Secretary New

**Job details**:

- Salary Competitive plus benefits
- LocationManchester
- DisciplineFinance
- Reference005422

**Job description**:
Here at N Brown, we are looking for an Assistant Company Secretary to join our Legal team

**About the role**

Reporting into the N Brown Group plc (the “Group”)’s Group’s General Counsel and Company Secretary, the Assistant Company Secretary is responsible for the day-to-day running of the Group’s corporate governance function.

**What will you be responsible for as Assistant Company Secretary?**
- Coordinating and facilitating Board, Committee and General Meetings as well as supporting various internal secretariat forums (including agenda planning, report writing, meeting pack assembly, minuting and post-meeting action support)
- Maintaining the Group’s statutory registers and records (includes UK, Irish and Guernsey incorporated companies)
- Filing documents at Companies House
- Administrating the Group’s share schemes and other awards, key liaison to the Group’s Employee Benefit Trust
- Supporting all activity in relation to the Group’s insurance portfolio - facilitator of the annual insurance renewal, key liaison to the Broker and underwriters, overall claims management
- Supporting the Group’s annual audit activities
- Overseeing and managing the Group’s MAR Processes including maintenance of Insider Lists, PDMR/Director records, Conflicts of Interest Register and Related Part Trackers
- Co-Project Managing the Group’s Annual Report: coordination, design and content development (for Corporate Governance section)
- Supporting the Company Secretary in discharging responsibility for the effective management of key policies and processes including Whistleblowing
- Facilitating all AIM reporting requirements and associated activities of the Group, key liaison to the Group’s Registrar and Nomad.
- Providing governance support and advice to key stakeholders across the Group

**What experience are we looking for?**
- An enthusiastic and pro-active individual looking for their next development opportunity.
- You will be able to work with and engage positively across all Group functions and at all levels
- You will have a high level of diligence, discretion and attention to detail is required;
- You will have strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Listed experience is essential. A CGI qualification (or study towards it) would be preferred but relevant experience will be considered.
- You will be advanced in Microsoft Office and ideally have experience using Diligent Boardbooks and Diligent Entities (formally Blueprint)

**Our benefits**:

- A competitive salary (DOE) plus benefits
- Company pension with up to 8% N Brown contribution
- Life Assurance and Private Medical Insurance
- Annual bonus scheme
- Colleague discount across all our N Brown Group brands (Simply Be, Jacamo, JD Williams, Home Essentials, Ambrose Wilson to name a few).
- Local restaurant discounts across Manchester’s Northern Quarter
- 24 days annual leave (plus 8 bank holidays) with the option to buy an additional 10 over the year
- Hybrid working, enabling you to work from home or office (at a frequency agreed with your line manager) and staggered start times. We know these are different times and have embraced them to ensure our colleagues are supported.
- A Manchester City Centre office base, socially distanced workstations and sanitizing stations around the business
- Great tech to enable you to not only make doing your job easy but to also allow you to work from anywhere with a great WIFI connection
- Onsite café at great subsidised rates
- Who are we:
**Who we are**:
Here at N Brown we serve our customers through distinct brands; we are experienced, gained from over 160 years of trading; Inclusive as we believe in fashion without boundaries; sustainable as we strive to make as little impact on the planet and focused on the future as we are ALWAYS looking for ways to develop our business and serve our customers better.