About the role

  • Investment Company Secretary in legal affairs offering quality services to investment trusts while ensuring compliance and efficient operations. Collaborating with boards for strategic oversight and corporate governance.

Responsibilities

  • To provide a quality investment secretarial service to a portfolio of clients.
  • To ensure efficient running of these products and the provision of a high standard of service to the boards, shareholders and fund managers.
  • Develop strong working relationships with investment trust/company directors, in particular the chairs, maintaining regular dialogue with them.
  • Actively participate in corporate transactions.
  • Ensure efficient performance of ongoing investment secretarial duties: Board Meetings.
  • Ensure proper planning of board agenda in advance of meetings; ensure preparation of accurate board papers, through detailed review, which are despatched to the board a week before the board meeting date; present at board meetings on company secretarial and strategic issues; prepare minutes for review by the chair within one week of the meeting.
  • Co-ordinate the production of annual and interim and quarterly reports; perform detailed review of accounts; ensure financial reports meet all current legislative and regulatory requirements and are despatched to shareholders within statutory time scales; ensure all statutory forms are completed accurately and filed prior to deadline.

Requirements

  • Previous board support experience, specifically minuting taking and preparation of relevant Board Papers and Annual and Interim Financial Statements.
  • Must be proactive, personable and a self-starter who is extremely well organised.
  • Must be a qualified company secretary / accountant, governance professional or qualified solicitor.
  • Experience of Investment Companies, working with Boards and a familiarity with the AIC and Corporate Governance Codes: Minute taking at complex board meetings within financial services sector (ideally Investment Companies);
  • Experience of statutory and regulatory filings.

Benefits

  • In-Office Collaboration
  • Flexibility to work from home one (1) day per week

Job title

Investment Company Secretary

Job type

Experience level

Junior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Professional Certificate

Location requirements

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