Senior Consultant

**Senior Consultant, Company Matters**Exeter**Monday - Friday**£ Competitive + benefits**
**Managing a varied portfolio of clients, including complex and high profile listed companies accountabilities.**
Our award-winning company secretarial business - Company Matters, is one of the largest company secretarial providers in the UK and is well-known for its expertise in corporate governance advisory services and company secretarial administration.

We support domestic and international clients with all aspects of their company secretarial and governance needs and have a long-standing reputation of providing class-leading services to UK listed businesses. Our specialism is supporting companies through IPOs and working with Investment Trusts.

As a **Senior Consultant **you will manage a varied portfolio of clients, including high profile listed companies, providing end to end support, covering board facing responsibilities, statutory and regulatory compliance, governance and best practice advice.

You will also be responsible for working with less experienced team members to deliver service excellence, acting as a point of contact for technical queries raised by Team Members and proactively contributing to the commercial success of our business.

**What you’ll be doing**:

- Managing a varied portfolio of clients, including complex and high profile listed companies accountabilities include:

- Full support to private and listed company Boards and committees, including attendance at the meetings in a minute taking and advisory capacity
- Providing advice and guidance on corporate governance best practice to a diverse portfolio of clients including the preparation of reports as required
- Ensuring compliance with all Stock Exchange requirements including all listing, statutory and regulatory requirements, stock market announcements and compliance with Market Abuse Regulations (MAR)
- Drafting and reviewing the non-financial sections of Annual Report and Accounts, and project managing the process where appropriate for our clients
- Organising and managing the annual and other general meetings, including the preparation of all relevant notices
- Regulatory, statutory and governance reporting requirements - maintenance of corporate registers, director details and records for client entities
- Reviewing relevant statutory submissions and returns on behalf of clients
- Reviewing regulatory announcements on behalf of client companies using a range of RIS portals
- Overseeing and reviewing the work carried out by more junior colleagues for clients in your portfolio and reviewing work for the wider team, including more technical documents such as corporate reports
- Taking a proactive approach to establishing and developing relationships with key clients, demonstrating positive behaviours in account development and relationship management.
- Contributing to or leading internal and external technical initiatives, e.g. training sessions, webinars, articles.
- Sharing your core technical knowledge with other team members and leading internal knowledge sharing initiatives.
- Proactively contributing to operational and/or client related improvement and initiatives.
- Ensuring that services are delivered to a high standard, on time, and within our commercial operating model and encouraging delivery at these standards by junior colleagues.
- Supporting your Manager in the development of graduate trainees and/or part qualified team members who provide the support on your portfolio of clients.
- Approval of Customer Due Diligence to ensure compliance with our Anti-Money Laundering Policies and Know Your Client requirements.

**What we’re looking for**:

- Associate of ICSA, The Chartered Governance Institute
- Extensive knowledge of UK company law, regulation and best practice, including solid listed and board facing experience.
- Strong minute taking abilities.
- Ability and willingness to work in a fast paced environment and to balance conflicting deadlines.
- Ability to integrate into a dynamic team and work in a collaborate manner, taking a hands-on role when necessary.
- Commercial awareness and desire to work within a professional services environment, with a broad understanding of this model.
- Strong client facing and relationship management skills.
- Ability to engage with and guide less experienced team members to encourage their personal and professional development.

**About Link Group / Corporate Markets**:
Link Group works in partnership internationally with almost 7,000 clients including asset managers and investors, business managers, asset owners, trustees, issuers and borrowers. We provide the infrastructure through which assets are secured or deployed in both regulated and unregulated markets.

We offer industry-leading shareholder services through Link Market Services to a wide range of corporates, issuers and business managers. We are the largest UK share registrar providing services to more than 1,300