# Assistant Company Secretary

**Company**: Starling Bank
**Location**: London, England
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We’re Starling, a fully licensed UK bank with the culture and spirit of a fast-moving, disruptive tech company. We built a new kind of bank because we knew technology had the power to help people save, spend and manage their money in a new and transformative way.

Reporting to our Senior Company Secretary, this role offers an opportunity to play a key part in developing the governance infrastructure of a scaling international fintech, ensuring effective subsidiary board support and contributing to the integrity of our corporate records and Group governance processes.

## Responsibilities

### Subsidiary Governance

- Provide end-to-end Board support for a growing and fast-paced subsidiary business and its UK/international subsidiaries and branches.

- Maintain timely information flows, uphold high standards of board paper quality and offer trusted governance advice.

- Draft subsidiary board and shareholder resolutions for routine and ad hoc matters.

- Coordinate internal approvals for UK and international subsidiaries/branches.

- Act as the Group Company Secretariat workstream lead for international expansion projects.

- Manage Companies House and local registrar filings and ensure statutory registers are accurate and up to date.

- Maintain precise internal entity records and handle the distribution of Board materials.

### Group Governance and Corporate Administration

- Support the Group in meeting its statutory, regulatory, and corporate governance obligations.

- Contribute directly to major projects like the Annual Report and AGM planning.

- Support governance and administration related to employee share schemes.

### Team Collaboration

- Share knowledge openly within the team and actively support the professional development of the Junior Company Secretarial Assistant.

- Bring a proactive, growth-oriented and risk-management focused mindset to the daily operations of the Group Company Secretariat team.

## Requirements

### Essential Criteria

- Minimum of 3 years of experience working within a busy Company Secretariat team.

- Professionally qualified (CGI Grad / ACG).

- Experience with entity management software and board portals.

- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

- Experienced in handling sensitive and confidential information.

- Highly organised, detail-oriented, and capable of managing workload.

- A flexible, ‘can-do’ attitude with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.

### Desirable Criteria

- Company Secretariat experience within a financial services environment.

- Prior experience supporting the governance and administration of employee share schemes.

## Benefits

- 25 days holiday.

- An extra day’s holiday for your birthday.

- Annual leave is increased with length of service.

- 16 hours paid volunteering time a year.

- Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme.

- Life insurance at 4x your salary.

- Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth.

- Generous family-friendly policies.

- Perkbox membership.

## Skills

### Required
- entity management software
- board portals
- corporate governance
- communication skills

### Nice to have
- financial services experience
- employee share schemes experience

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