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About the Role
This role plays a key leadership position within the Group Secretariat function, ensuring effective corporate governance, statutory compliance, and board support for a complex international organization. The Deputy Company Secretary manages daily company secretarial activities, supports high governance standards, and enables effective decision-making at Board and executive levels. This role acts as a trusted advisor on governance matters, supports corporate transactions and organizational changes, and helps maintain a robust governance framework aligned with business objectives.
Responsibilities
- Shapes and leads the Group's governance operating model across multiple markets, ensuring governance frameworks support business strategy, growth, acquisitions and regulatory requirements.
- Provides expert advice to Boards, Committees and senior stakeholders on corporate governance, entity management and governance best practice.
- Manages the governance framework across the Group, including delegated authorities, governance policies, board calendars and governance records.
- Delivers end-to-end support for Board and Committee meetings, ensuring effective administration, action tracking and decision-making processes.
- Leads governance workstreams associated with corporate transactions, acquisitions, restructures and strategic projects.
- Ensures compliance with statutory obligations across legal entities and maintains appropriate corporate records and regulatory filings.
- Oversees sustainability and governance reporting requirements, supporting the delivery of internal, investor and regulatory reporting obligations.
- Develops strong relationships with investors, regulators, external advisers and service providers, ensuring effective management of governance requirements.
- Contributes to the continuous improvement of governance processes, controls and ways of working.
- Provides leadership, coaching and oversight to the Company Secretarial Assistants.
- Leads governance activity across a complex international group operating multiple regulated and non-regulated entities across the UK, Europe and US.
- Directly influences Board, Executive Committee and investor decision-making through governance advice, reporting and oversight.
- Shapes governance frameworks and operating models that underpin business growth, acquisitions, regulatory compliance and organisational effectiveness.
- Acts as the organisation's senior governance specialist, balancing diverse regulatory, shareholder and stakeholder requirements across multiple jurisdictions.
- Plays a critical role in maintaining organisational integrity, governance effectiveness and stakeholder confidence.
Requirements
- Proven experience in a Company Secretariat, Corporate Governance or related governance role.
- Strong knowledge of corporate governance frameworks, board and committee governance, and statutory compliance.
- Experience supporting Boards, Committees and senior executives within a complex organisation.
- Proven ability to advise and influence senior stakeholders on governance best practice.
- Experience managing legal entities, corporate records and regulatory filings.
- Exposure to corporate transactions, including acquisitions, restructures and strategic projects.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build relationships across executives, investors, regulators and external advisers.
- Experience operating within a regulated and/or international business environment.
- Excellent organisational, communication and attention-to-detail skills.
- Demonstrated ability to lead, coach and develop junior team members.
Skills
- Corporate governance
- Statutory compliance
- Board support
- Entity management
- Governance best practice
- Stakeholder management
- Organisational skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Leadership
- Coaching
Location
- Wimbledon
Work Type
- Hybrid working
- Permanent
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Professional governance qualification (CGI or equivalent) desirable.
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary
Benefits
- Competitive salary and annual discretionary bonus
- 25 days annual leave plus bank/public holidays
- Option to buy up to 5 additional days of annual leave
- Training opportunities
- Clearly defined career progression
- Health cash plan – employer funded cover for essential healthcare costs (dental, optical, physiotherapy, etc.)
- Unlimited access to a 24/7 virtual GP service
- Attractive company pension scheme
- Life assurance – employer funded cover of 4x basic salary
- Dedicated online benefit portal
- Access to saving and lending facilities
- Financial wellbeing and support services
- Salary Finance – access to savings and borrowing through payroll
- Car Leasing – carbon neutral salary sacrifice scheme
- Travel Loans – interest free loans for annual travel tickets
- Cycle to Work – tax efficient bike and cycling equipment up to £1,000
- Health & Wellbeing – discounted gym membership, online virtual workout sessions, online culinary classes
- OnHand – Eco & Social volunteer opportunities
- Employee Assistance Programme – specialist advice and support
- Free Domestic & General protection plan
- Employee discounts – for online and high street retailers
About the Company
- Domestic & General are proud of their 100-year legacy and excited about their future growth plans.
- They are expanding their horizons, entering new markets and territories internationally.
Equal Opportunity
- Domestic & General are an equal opportunities employer which means we treat people fairly.
- We welcome applications from all suitably skilled persons regardless of their gender, age, race, disability, ethnic background, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or marital/family status.
- Please note that we have a thorough referencing process, which includes criminal record checks.