Company Secretarial Assistant

London/Cardiff/UK Remote | 💰£64,000 - £74,000 + Benefits | Hear from the team ✨

⭐Our Company Secretarial team

We’re looking for a talented, hands-on and enthusiastic Company Secretarial Assistant to join the Company Secretarial team at Monzo. As part of an experienced and friendly team of governance professionals, you will report directly to a Senior Company Secretary. You will play a key role in ensuring the smooth and efficient management of governance, regulatory and statutory compliance processes, including maintaining accurate corporate records, assisting with share transactions and utilising Diligent Entities to deliver a first-class governance service across the Monzo Group. This role provides an exciting opportunity to develop and enhance your company secretarial skills set while taking ownership of some of our core governance processes and procedures.

If you are excited about the intersection of technology and banking, and want to build on your company secretarial expertise, this is the role for you! 

🔑You’ll play a key role by...

• Board/Committee Management: Provide support with the end-to-end process for the Group’s Boards and Committees, including responsibility for governance advice and support to the Chair.
• Diligent Boards/Entities Management: Manage Diligent Boards and Entities, including providing information and advice to stakeholders, updating registers and issuing share certificates.
• iNED Equity Participation Scheme: With support from the MBL Deputy Company Secretary, manage the iNED Equity Participation Scheme.
• Employee Share Option Exercises: Support on the bi-annual employee share option exercise process and ad-hoc projects, working closely with the Reward team to ensure an easy to use and efficient process.
• Capital Contributions: Support with capital contributions and Group funding activities.
• Year-End Declaration Packs: Support the delivery of year-end declaration packs for directors for all Group companies.
• Regulatory Returns: Assist with the preparation of regulatory returns to the PRA and FCA..
• Horizon Scanning: Identify, analyse and monitor emerging and anticipated changes in laws, regulations, and industry standards to ensure the team stays informed about and can plan for actual or potential changes.
• Board Governance Procedures and Processes: Support on the management and ongoing production of procedures and processes, including annual reviews, to ensure the efficient and timely completion of activities.
• KYC Documentation: Maintain Monzo Group KYC corporate information documentation and support the business with KYC requests from third parties.
• Internal Website: Maintain and update the suite of governance information in Monzo’s central company information hub.
• Technology: Assist with the team’s modernisation and transformation journey through the identification and implementation of automation and simplification opportunities, including the use of AI.

🤩 We’d love to hear from you if…

• You are passionate about governance and the intersection of banking and technology.
• You are a recently qualified, or part-qualified, company secretary or governance professional (ACIS or equivalent), with experience in a governance or company secretary role, ideally in financial services.
• You have experience in a company secretarial role.
• You have demonstrated a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• You have experience of working in a fast-paced environment and are able to adapt to an ever changing environment.
• You have the ability to work in a team and a collaborative environment.
• You have the ability to carry out research independently and provide recommendations.
• You are organised and able to deal with a variety of tasks. 
• You have excellent communication skills, with the ability to write clearly and concisely.
• You have good knowledge of corporate governance principles and applicable financial regulations.
• You are comfortable engaging at all levels of the organisation, including the Board and Executive Committee.
• You embrace change management, developing and using technology to simplify processes and looking for innovative ways to solve challenges.
• You are committed to continuous learning and improvement.
• You are driven to advance your professional career. 

🙌What’s in it for you

💰£64,000 - £74,000 ➕ share options.

📍This role can be based in our London office, but we're open to distributed working within the UK (with ad hoc meetings in London) 

⏰We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, and at times that suit you and your team. 

📚£1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences.

🏡We will set you up to work from home; all employees are given Macbooks and for fully remote workers we will provide extra support for your work-from-home setup. 

➕ Plus lots more! Read our full list of benefits.

🌈 The application journey has 3 key steps

• Call with Recruiter
• Initial Call with Hiring Manager
• Loop Interviews
  • Role Specific Interview
  • Behavioural Interview

This process should take around 2-3 weeks - your schedule is really important to us, so we promise to be as flexible as possible! 

We have some guidelines on using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to ace an application and interview at Monzo. You can read them here.

You’ll hear from us throughout the application process, but if you’ve got any questions, please reach out to hiring@monzo.com. You can also use this email address to let us know if there’s anything we can do to make the process easier for you because of disability, neurodiversity or anything else.

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