Griffin

Company Secretary

Griffin

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United Kingdom

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Salary

💰 £75,000 per year

Job Level

Junior

About the role

  • Own our company secretarial function end to end, creating structure, clarity, and confidence at Board level.
  • Be a trusted point of contact for the Board, our iNEDs, and senior stakeholders across the business.
  • Support the legal team with paralegal work (contracts negotiation, NDAs, legal research, and more).
  • Take full ownership of the board and committee cycle, ensuring papers go out on time, minutes are turned around promptly, and actions are tracked and closed without anyone having to chase you.
  • Manage Griffin's governance framework and delegated authorities, ensuring they are up to date as the company grows.
  • Prepare and manage regulatory submissions and notifications to the FCA and PRA, including controller forms and ad hoc regulatory notifications.
  • Act as a key point of contact for board members, helping information flow smoothly and deadlines being met.
  • Oversee the end-to-end share options scheme and shareholder relations (cap table management, share transfers, AGMs).
  • Ensure compliance with Companies House and statutory filings including director appointments and resignations, confirmation statements and changes to articles.

Requirements

  • Relevant experience in a company secretarial, assistant company secretary, or governance support role within a bank or regulated financial services environment.
  • A big passion for all things governance and are fully qualified company secretary or working towards full qualification or another appropriate legal / accounting qualification
  • Hands-on experience supporting board or committee operations (scheduling, papers, minutes, action tracking) and working familiarity with SM&CR and its requirements for a regulated firm
  • Highly organised and detail-oriented, with the confidence to communicate with senior stakeholders, board members, and regulators.
  • Experience with share option scheme administration (Ledgy or similar)
  • Proactive and comfortable taking ownership in a fast-moving environment
  • A love of writing - we have a major amount of written documentation that you will be contributing to, and we place a high degree of importance on clarity and readability
Benefits
  • Remote-first flexibility: Work from anywhere in the UK
  • Work from abroad: Up to 20 days a year
  • Time off: 25 days’ holiday, bank holidays and a winter break (we shut down between Christmas and New Year)
  • Share options: Own a part of what we’re building together
  • Pension: Auto-enrolment into our Penfold scheme
  • Insurance: Private medical with Bupa (including family cover) and life insurance with AIG
  • Wellbeing: 1:1 coaching and therapy session available through Oliva
  • Family leave: Enhanced parental leave with up to 6 months on full pay after two years’ service
  • AI tools: Everyone has a Claude subscription on us and access to other premium tools
  • Your setup: We’ll support you in creating a comfortable and effective WFH environment.
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
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Certifications
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