Senior Assistant Company Secretary

Requirements

• Associate Corporate Governance / Associate Company Secretary (Chartered Governance Institute)
• Excellent computer skills with working experience of Diligent and GEMs (or similar board governance or entity management system)
• Benefits of working at Canada Life
• How we work at Canada Life
• We want colleagues to have rewarding careers with us so we invest in the development of our people, technology and workplaces. That's why we offer a range of training, flexible working and opportunities to grow and develop.
• Diversity and inclusion
• We appreciate that everyone has different work and life responsibilities. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements, including part time, for any of our roles should this be a requirement for you.

Additional Information

Location : Watford. Canada Life UK looks after the retirement, investment and protection needs of individuals, families and companies. We help to build better futures for our customers, our intermediaries and our employees by operating as a modern, agile and welcoming organisation. Part of our parent company Great-West Lifeco, Canada Life UK has operated in the United Kingdom since 1903. We have hundreds of respected and supported employees committed to doing the right thing for our customers and colleagues. Canada Life UK is transforming to create a more customer-focused business by providing our customers with expertise on financial and tax planning, offering home finance and annuities propositions, and providing collective fund solutions to third party customers. Job Summary: To support the Company Secretary and Deputy Company Secretary in the provision of high-quality company secretarial services to the Canada Life UK ("CLUK") Division entities including The Canada Life Group (U.K.) Limited. Responsibility for specific company secretarial processes as well as board governance and meeting support for some of the CLUK entities. Company secretarial / governance lead on certain business initiatives and company secretarial projects and assisting the Deputy Company Secretary in the delivery of the annual governance process. What will you be doing: 1. Ownership of specific Company Secretarial Processes - Subsidiary Accounts Process, Regulatory Application Process for Non-Executive Directors and the Annual Governance Process 2. Board and Board Committee support 3. Governance oversight and advice 4. Company Secretarial / governance lead on certain business / Company Secretarial projects 5. Coaching junior members of the team (Company Secretarial Assistant / Senior Company Secretarial Assistant, Work Experience Students) What Experience will you have for the position: - Substantial Company Secretarial skills - Experience in a regulated environment - Excellent written and verbal communication skills - Excellent organisational skills - Experience of providing end-to-end governance support to a Board or Board Committee - Exceptional understanding and application of the UK Companies Act and Corporate Governance Codes

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