# Committee Manager

**Company**: Starling
**Location**: Cardiff & London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a Committee Manager to join our team on a 12-month fixed-term contract. As a Committee Manager, you will be responsible for managing the effective end-to-end operation of executive risk committees, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and best practices.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Schedule and manage committee meetings, ensuring alignment with the Bank’s governance calendar

- Support agenda drafting in collaboration with committee chairs and Risk Reporting, ensuring strategic priorities and regulatory requirements are addressed

- Support the preparation of high-quality committee papers, ensuring quality assurance

- Act as a trusted advisor to the committee chairs and committee members on governance procedures and regulatory obligations

- Take accurate, concise, and confidential minutes, capturing key discussions, decisions, and action points

- Co-ordinate action status updates in a timely manner

- Lead periodic reviews of committee terms of reference, ensuring they maintain alignment with business and regulatory needs

- Supporting the Senior Assistant Company Secretary with support of Parent Committees

**Requirements:**

- Experience in governance, company secretariat, or committee management

- Experience working with senior stakeholders and executives

- Experience within a UK financial services institution, ideally banking (preferred)

**Behaviours & Competencies:**

- Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines

- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including minute-taking and drafting

- Attention to detail, with a commitment to excellence and maintaining high standards of accuracy

- Sound judgement and discretion in handling sensitive and confidential information

- Comfortable using new technology, including AI tools, to improve the speed and efficiency of processes

- Proactive and solution-oriented, with a focus on continuous improvement

- Collaborative, able to build strong relationships across diverse teams

- Resilient and adaptable to changing priorities and regulatory environments

**Benefits:**

- Competitive salary

- Company-enhanced salary sacrifice pension scheme (7% employer contribution)

- Private Medical Insurance with Vitality including mental health support and cancer care

- 25 days holiday (plus take your public holiday allowance whenever works best for you)

- An extra day’s holiday for your birthday

- Life Insurance at 4x your salary

- 16 hours of paid volunteering time a year

- Ability to buy or sell annual leave

- Generous family-friendly policies

- Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off

- Incentivised refer a friend scheme

- Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks

## Skills

### Required
- governance
- committee management
- regulatory compliance

### Nice to have
- experience within a UK financial services institution
- banking

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