Senior Company Secretary - 6 Months Full Time Contract

European Corporate Secretariat (“ECS”) provides support and company secretarial services to Barclays Bank Ireland PLC (“Barclays Europe”) and its Board and Board Committees. The team sits within the wider Barclay Corporate Secretariat (“BCS”) function in London which provides the same services to Barclays PLC and other Group subsidiary companies, with smaller regional teams also in America and Asia.

You will be an experienced Company Secretarial professional with deep corporate governance knowledge, helping to ensure the effective operation of the Board and the Board Committees, in accordance with law, regulation and best practice. A high level of attention to detail is required and the ability to manage a number of key tasks is critical.

Role and Responsibilities

Skills Required

• Qualified Solicitor or Lawyer, or a qualified Company Secretary.
• Experience working in a regulated bank, with potential experience in insurance.
• PLC experience is advantageous but not essential.
• Proven ability to lead junior team members.
• Ability to deputise for senior management when required.
• Versatile and adaptable, able to handle various tasks and responsibilities.
• Senior stakeholder management skills, including dealing with ExCo or board members.
• Confident and influential communicator, able to engage with high-profile clients.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

Purpose of the Role

To play a crucial role in ensuring the Barclays Group’s adherence to statutory and regulatory corporate governance requirements and industry standards, facilitating communication between the board of directors and other key stakeholders for regulated and/or significant Barclays Group legal entities.

Accountabilities

• Act as Company Secretary to regulated or significant legal entities, including liaison with the Chairman and senior executives, assisting with board succession and board and committee evaluations, agenda preparation, board paper management, attending and minuting board meetings where required.
• Provision of support, advice and guidance to the Barclays Group on company law and appropriate regulations, its own policies and best practice in corporate governance and to the Directors on their fiduciary duties and other legal or regulatory obligations.
• Creation and review of corporate governance documents, including charters, terms of reference, matters reserved for the board, policies, and procedures in compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.
• Maintenance of compliance with corporate governance requirements, best practices and industry standards across the Barclays Group governance practices.
• Assistance on project work, for instance corporate re-organisations, liquidations, mergers and formations and the signing of subsidiary financial accounts.
• Maintenance of the company’s statutory registers, other registers such as conflict of interest registers, and data fields required for adherence to Barclays Group policies and standards.
• Stakeholders support with their ongoing compliance with the Group Policy on Legal Entities and Directors.

Vice President Expectations

• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem-solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.