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 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.
Many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting being completed. Applicants who already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment. A number of roles are also subject to additional restrictions, which mean factors such as nationality or previous nationalities may affect the roles that you can be employed in.
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