Assistant Company Secretary

**Title**:
Assistant Company Secretary
**Location**:
Farnborough, England, United Kingdom
**Role Type**:
Permanent - Full Time
**Package**: Competitive Salary + Benefits
**Role ID**: SF17879
Be part of the QinetiQ journey. Join us as an Assistant Company Secretary at our Farnborough site, where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and many of the industry’s most brilliant minds.
The Role
As an Assistant Company Secretary, you’ll have a role that is out of the ordinary. You will support the company secretarial function in ensuring that the QinetiQ Group is fully compliant with its continued listing on the London Stock Exchange, and with the Corporate Governance Code and the UK Companies Act.
Day-to-day, you’ll be responsible for providing expert Company Secretarial advice and comprehensive administrative Board support in respect of the Group’s principal operating subsidiaries, administration of the Group’s employee share plans and providing assistance to the Senior Assistant Company Secretary in ensuring that the QinetiQ Group is compliant with Corporate Governance and Companies Act requirements.
**Your responsibilities will include**:
Providing expert Company Secretarial advice to support the Group, through having an appropriate frameworks in place to protect strategic, operational, reputational, and financial risks, from a company law compliance perspective
Supporting the Company Secretary to ensure full compliance with the Listing Rules, Disclosure and Transparency Rules (DTRs) and Corporate Governance Code, to safeguard the Company’s continued listing with the London Stock Exchange
Contributing to the development of the Company Secretarial function strategy, bringing best practices to raise the profile of the team
Providing administrative support and statutory compliance with UK Companies act for all UK subsidiaries within the QinetiQ group
Monitoring and supporting compliance with the Market Abuse Regulation to safeguard the Group from breach of compliance, and fines from the FCA, including the set-up of an independently assessed and fully evidenced MAR compliance
Liaising with Reward, EQ, and the Employee Benefit Trust trustees and assisting with the awards made to participants in the QinetiQ Group Incentive Scheme, award vesting and ongoing administration
This role is 37 hours per week based at Farnborough, with hybrid working patterns available.
**Essential experience of the Assistant Company Secretary**:
Excellent understanding of the company secretarial function in a FTSE quoted company
Ability to work autonomously on tasks and manage own workload
Highly organized, with excellent attention to detail
**Essential qualifications for the Assistant Company Secretary**:
ICSA Qualified
Please note that all applicants must be eligible for SC clearance, as a minimum.
Our Benefits
Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
Generous holiday allowance
Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance
**Employee discount portal**: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more.
Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows most employees to buy up to 5 days’ additional leave.
We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant.
Payroll Giving and Volunteering - helping charities and local community.
Our volunteering programme enables our people to use their professional skills to make a positive difference in our local communities, for example STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) ambassador days in schools. We support a number of charities that are important to our people, including those that help the defence community.
Why Join QinetiQ?
As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there has never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.
You will experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you will get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in and diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Visit our website to read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture.
About QinetiQ
As a company of thousands of dedicated professionals, we are a world-centre of excellence in research and development and act as a catalyst for fast-track innovation, offering outstanding experimentation facilities, and technical, engineering and scientific expertise. QinetiQ is made up of dedicated experts in defence, aerospace, security an