Assistant Company Secretary

EMEA3 Recruitment; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Pension

25 days annual leave

Life Assurance 4 x salary

Employee Benefits Portal

Learning & Development opportunities

Social events

Career coaching

Job summary

Blick Rothenberg is seeking an Assistant Company Secretary to join our company secretarial team, handling a client portfolio and supporting senior colleagues. You will develop technical knowledge of company secretarial matters and work in a collaborative, client-facing environment.

The role requires a degree and ideally CGI qualification, with good knowledge of the Companies Acts, and experience with Diligent Entities.

Qualifications

• Must have a professional services background in a similar role.
• Educated to a degree level.
• Ideally partly or fully CGI qualified.
• Knowledge of the Companies Acts and relevant statutes.
• Experience using Diligent Entities (Blueprint).

Responsibilities

• Manage client portfolio and support senior team members.
• Ensure Companies House filing deadlines are met and documents issued for approval.
• Maintain statutory books and keep them up to date.
• Prepare documents for routine Companies House filings and share capital transactions.
• PSC analysis and updating PSC registers; dormant accounts and striking off filings.
• Formation of UK companies and LLPs; advise on overseas establishments' compliance.
• Respond to technical queries; raise and send invoices for work completed.

Skills

Professional services

Diligent Entities

Education

CGI qualification

Degree holder

Tools

Diligent Entities

Job description

Assistant Company Secretary

Are you looking to develop your career within a nurturing environment where you can flourish? Do you want to join an award-winning firm that strives for excellence and success for our clients, our people and our business?

Blick Rothenberg

Blick Rothenberg are a leading tax, accountancy and business advisory firm founded on personal integrity and technical expertise. Our teams work seamlessly to provide advice throughout the life cycle of our clients. Our partner-led approach ensures that our clients receive an excellent service from a team of high-quality people who combine technical expertise with personal integrity. Our ethos is reflected in the way that we work with our clients, taking the time to understand their business and invest in the relationship to ensure that we can provide the best advice possible. We want success for our people, our clients and for our business.

In order to help preserve this winning formula, to bring it to life with our new joiners and to explain it to our clients, we have articulated our approach through the values of Collaboration, Authenticity Respect and being Dynamic. You can read more about our values here.

Blick Rothenberg is committed to improving the diversity of its workforce across all levels by building a culture that’s genuinely inclusive, a culture where everyone can fulfil their potential and can be themselves.

We seek to attract smart talented people from the widest talent pool as well as those that reflect the diversity of the communities we live and work in.

BR supports flexible working (BRighter working) which aims to allow you to balance your life with the needs of colleagues and the high expectations of our clients.

The role

We offer a nurturing and collaborative working culture that is caring and protecting of our people, within an environment where they can learn and flourish. In addition to a competitive remuneration package, we offer a range of flexible benefits and flexible hours of work. We have clearly defined career pathways which empower you to manage your own development. We have a number of colleague-led collaborative working groups which help shape our strategy.

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Key accountabilities

We have an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Company Secretary to join our company secretarial department. You will be stepping into a client facing role, taking responsibility for your own client portfolio, providing support to the senior team members and the wider team. There will be opportunities to be involved in more complex work and gain valuable experience.

Strong candidates will have a professional services background in a similar role, be educated to a degree level and, ideally, partly or fully CGI qualified, possess a good knowledge of the Companies Acts and relevant statutes and have experience in using Diligent Entities (formerly known as Blueprint).

The role requires a proactive approach, strong organisational skills, attention to detail and excellent verbal and written communication skills. It will also be necessary to possess the ability to manage and prioritise workload without losing sight of delegated tasks.

Daily tasks will involve various aspects of company secretarial compliance including, but not limited to:

• Ensuring that clients’ Companies House filing deadlines are met and that documents are issued for approval in good time
• Maintaining statutory books and ensuring they are up to date
• Preparation of documents for routine Companies House filings
• Preparation of resolutions, forms and supporting documents for share capital transactions (share allotments and transfers, capital reductions, share buybacks, subdivisions, consolidations, share re-designations and share-for-share exchanges)
• PSC analysis and updating PSC registers
• Preparation and submission of dormant company accounts and voluntary striking off applications
• Formation of UK companies and LLPs
• Registration of UK establishments of overseas companies, advising on their compliance requirements, preparation and submission of forms to report changes
• Responding to technical queries from clients and colleagues
• Raising and sending invoices for the work completed

Strong experience in the majority of these tasks will be an advantage. We will provide support for training and the opportunity to gain an in-depth technical knowledge of more complex company secretarial procedures. There will be opportunities for career advancement.

Skills & experience

“This is an opportunity to work with a great group of people and some fantastic clients in a varied and challenging role”

Other

Blick Rothenberg are a part of Azets, an award-winning firm of Accountants and Business Advisors operating across the UK, Nordics and the USA. Azets are a family of over 6,500 employees and have seen dramatic growth in recent years which has made us the 9th largest accountancy firm in the UK. This allows Blick Rothenberg to continue to deliver the high quality, partner-led service, but with greater resource that being part of a larger business provides.

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Coming up with a strict set of rules that work for every team and individual in a business as diverse as ours isn’t possible. Instead, we have BRighter Working, a framework to find ways of working that give us individually and collectively a great experience, while continuing to provide the highest quality service to our clients when and where they need us. This is inclusive of:

• Hybrid working– where teams are working together in multiple locations i.e. a BR office, a client site, their home or somewhere else
• Synchronous/Asynchronous working– using the office or technology to work together at the same time / using technology and different ways of working to work at different times to colleagues.
• Smarter working– finding simpler, more efficient ways of delivering services to clients and working together as a BR team. These can be tech-enabled but may also be simple changes to our processes
• Flexible working– a temporary or permanent change to someone’s terms and conditions which fixes a working pattern different to the standard contract

• Pension - Looking after your future self when it’s time to step back and relax.
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays – Time to focus on what’s important to you.
• Life Assurance – 4 x times salary, our family is important to us, and so is yours.
• Employee Referral Bonus – We’re always looking for talented individuals to join our family.
• Employee Benefits Portal – Cashback and vouchers on everyday purchases.
• Extensive Learning & Development Opportunities – Continuous development and support not only for your professional qualifications but also for your personal goals and aspirations, so we can grow together.
• Opportunity to attend social events – Time to stop, pause and have fun.
• Career Coaching – Better never stops. Sharing our time to make the best use of yours.