Senior Assistant Company Secretary S4 Legal

Senior Assistant Company Secretary | S4 | Legal & Governance | S4 | Legal & Governance | Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

**WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING**

**Join our community.**

**The difference you’ll make.**
- Leading board meeting and governance advisory support proactively to the Board and its Committees working closely with the Head of Board Support and other Committee Secretaries.
- Drafting meeting agendas liaising with key stakeholders, managing quality and timely distribution of materials to the Committee members and Executive Management, drafting meeting specific documentation including minutes and chair’s script.
- Overseeing activities of a Board Support Assistant to maintain forward looking calendars, meeting action schedules and support the agenda setting process.
- Maintaining statutory documentation and preparing regulatory and governance documentation as required, for internal purposes and/or external disclosures.
- Maintaining involvement with all aspects of the Corporate Governance Office activities to ensure that effective support is provided to other team members when priorities change or to meet business demand.
- Undertaking specific project work and lead transformation activities ensuring that the Corporate Governance Office continues to provide an efficient and first-class service.

**What you’ll bring.**
- Evidence of working effectively in a fast-paced secretariat function having operated as a secretary of the board or committees
- Experience of working in a regulated environment, ideally financial services

**It would also be nice for you to have.**
- Qualified as a Chartered Secretary (ACIS), Lawyer, relevant professional qualification.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with experience of direct interaction with senior stakeholders (at Chairman/non-Executive Director, Senior Executive level).
- Well-developed organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities, work efficiently under pressure and to tight deadlines.
- Flexible approach and the ability to adapt to variations in workloads and changes in responsibilities and priorities, with mínimal supervision and work on own initiative.

**What else you need to know.**

The role will be hybrid based split between working from home and our Santander Head Office location in Milton Keynes.

This is a permanent position.

**How we’ll reward you.**

As well as a salary, we offer a wide range of benefits that you can choose from and tailor to your needs.
- Eligible for a discretionary performance-related annual bonus
- Pension with generous contributions of up to 12.5% from Santander, depending on your own contribution and length of employment with us
- 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to 31 days after 5yrs service, with the option to purchase up to 5 contractual days per year
- £6,000 car allowance per year
- Company funded individual private medical insurance
- Voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates such as private medical insurance for your family, dental insurance, healthcare cash plan and health assessments
- Benefits supporting you and your family, such as death-in-service benefit, income protection, and voluntary life assurance and critical illness cover
- Share in Santander’s success by investing in our share plans

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**A bit more about Santander**

At Santander we’re driven by our purpose - to help people and businesses prosper. This means we help customers to create change for themselves and those around them, and we champion businesses to grow sustainably. We do this by always living our values of Simple, Personal and Fair.

At Santander, we each take personal responsibility for managing risk by embracing the I AM Risk framework - to Identify, Assess, Manage and Report risks, and to continuously build a deeper understanding of the risks we face. It is an important part of our culture at Santander and we will provide you with knowledge to help you manage risks in your role.

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