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About the Role

Join a global Legal team at the centre of an evolving organisation, where strong corporate governance plays a critical role in enabling confident, compliant decisions across borders. This is a highly visible role where you will influence senior leaders, strengthen governance frameworks and help shape the structure of a global business.

Responsibilities

• Own company secretarial delivery for key UK regulated entities, ensuring governance standards meet FCA expectations and support effective board oversight.
• Shape and embed corporate governance frameworks across multiple jurisdictions, balancing global consistency with local requirements.
• Partner with senior leaders and boards, including independent non-executive directors, to provide practical governance advice that enables confident and compliant decision-making.
• Ensure board and committee meetings are well-prepared, effective and well-structured.
• Support strategic initiatives including corporate restructurings, entity simplification and M&A activity.
• Ensure the effective management of governance documentation and statutory compliance across key legal entities.
• Work and collaborate within a team.
• Create clarity, strengthen accountability and help enable strategic decisions that shape the future of commerce.

Requirements

• Significant corporate governance and company secretarial experience.
• Strong knowledge of UK company law and governance frameworks.
• Ability to proactively contribute to a team.
• Experience operating within a fast-paced, highly regulated environment, ideally financial services.
• The ability to influence, negotiate and collaborate with colleagues at all levels across the global organisation.
• Translate complex governance matters into practical business considerations.
• Ability to manage and prioritise complex matters with competing deadlines and multiple stakeholders.
• Experience working within an international organisation across multiple jurisdictions, with a US parent or significant US presence.

Skills

• Corporate governance
• Company secretarial practices
• UK company law
• Governance frameworks
• Influencing
• Negotiation
• Collaboration
• Stakeholder management
• Project management

Location

• Global

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Significant experience

Education Level

• Associate or Fellow of the Chartered Governance Institute (ACG, ACIS, FCG or FCIS)

Salary/Compensations

• Competitive salary and benefits package

Benefits

• Global benefits and programmes
• Opportunities to grow skills and build career
• Access to learning, development and on-the-job experiences
• Supportive, inclusive team environment
• Time to give back through community and charity initiatives
• Global employee assistance programme
• Recognition through a global platform

About the Company

• Global Payments powers the global economy every day. Their work connects people, businesses and opportunities across the world, shaping how millions experience commerce.
• Globalpayers think like a client, act like an owner and win as one team.
• Globalpayers are curious and innovative – always finding better ways to deliver impact.
• Globalpayers empower each other to make decisions, and it's their passion that drives excellence in everything they set out to do.
• Global Payments and Worldpay recently joined forces.

Equal Opportunity

• Worldpay is committed to protecting the privacy and security of all personal information that we process in order to provide services to our clients.
• Recruitment at Worldpay works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies.
• Worldpay does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.