Job Description:

Core-Asset Consulting is working with a highly regarded company in Edinburgh to appoint an experienced Company Secretary.

This is a senior, Board-facing role offering the opportunity to act as a trusted adviser, delivering high-quality governance, regulatory oversight and company secretarial services. The successful candidate will be highly experienced in company secretarial duties within a professional company, so as to be able to add value from the outset.

This role would be open to candidates who are also based in London.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Proven experience providing company secretarial support at a senior level
• Experience operating in a Board-facing environment with senior stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently, exercise sound professional judgement and manage workload autonomously.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with strong attention to detail.
• Relevant professional qualification (law, accountancy or CGI/ICSA), or significant demonstrable practical experience in a senior company secretarial role.

Core Responsibilities:

• Provide comprehensive company secretarial and governance support to Board level.
• Prepare high-quality Board papers, meeting minutes and governance documentation.
• Advise Boards on compliance with regulations and industry guidance.
• Oversee the preparation of Interim and Annual Reports for Board approval.
• Prepare and issue regulatory announcements
• Maintain statutory records and oversee Companies House filings.
• Organise AGMs and general meetings and manage shareholder communications.
• Support corporate activity, ad-hoc projects and continuous improvement initiatives.

Benefits:

• A highly competitive salary
• Wider Benefits package

Core-Asset Consulting is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, race, colour, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital/civil partner status or pregnancy.

Job reference: (16278)

To apply for this vacancy applicants must be eligible to work in the UK in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.

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