Team – Company Secretary
Working Pattern - Hybrid – 2 days per week in the Vitality London Office. Full time, 37.5 hours per week.
*This role is full time but we're open to part time (3-4 days per week)*
We’re looking for someone who can start straight away or within a month. If you need more time, don’t worry – we’re also hiring for a permanent position. Apply for the permanent role if your notice period is longer than a month. If you’re available sooner, you might be considered for both the fixed-term and permanent roles.
We are happy to discuss flexible working!
Top skills needed for this role:
- Versatile with the ability to deal with change
- Confident interpersonal skills
- Knowledge of Insurance sector
- Exceptional minute taking experience
What this role is all about:
Lead the Company Secretariat team in all matters related to the corporate governance of Vitality.
Key Actions
- Responsibility for the Secretariat Function which consists of a Deputy Company Secretary and two Assistant Company Secretaries.
- Ensures that the companies with the UK Group complies with their Articles of Association, the Companies Act 2006 and any other relevant legislation.
- Providing day-to-day advice on wider commercial matters, including management of reputational risk, regulatory framework and governance matters.
- Responsible for ensuring that the organisation complies maintains a high standard of corporate governance.
- Engaging with the Board members on a regular and ad-hoc basis to ensure their requirements for business understanding are met.
- Attending the Boards, Remuneration and Nomination Committees, taking the minutes, ensuring a high level of accuracy with regards to capturing an account of the meetings and agreed actions.
- Ensuring high quality minutes and account taken for sub-committee and advisory committees of the Board, including the Risk Committee, Audit Committee, Actuarial Committee and Technology Committee.
- Ensuring the high-quality minutes and actions are taken for the Product Oversight and Governance Committees.
- Ensure the Terms of Reference of all Board Committees (including sub and advisory), and other governance committees enables a high level of corporate governance.
- Distribution and tracking Board and Committee actions.
- Drafting annual Board effectiveness reviews and reporting to the Board accordingly.
- Ensuring that the Code of Corporate Governance is adhered to where relevant.
- Responsible for the annual programme and setting of meeting agendas and assisting with ensuring that the Boards are considering the most appropriate topics.
- Ensuring the Board receives adequate and relevant training and that all new Directors receive an appropriate Induction Programme
- Working with the business to ensure a positive governance culture is enabled and embedded. Work closely with senior executives within the business to ensure effective communication
- Ad hoc projects in order to support and develop your understanding of the business
What do you need to thrive?
- ICSA qualified
- Strong technical knowledge and familiarity with implementing the requirements of the Corporate Governance Code
- Strong attention to detail, highly literate, ideally with good numeracy
- Knowledge of insurance sector
- Flexible approach
- Ability to build relationships with key stakeholders across the business, including the Board, the CFO, and senior leadership team
- Ability to communicate view and opinions clearly and persuasively
- Willing to take ownership of business area and design/deliver improved processes and precedents to drive efficiencies.
- Confident and effective communicator, with good written skills and commercial understanding
- Ability to mentor and coach more junior colleagues
So, what’s in it for you?
- Bonus Schemes – A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance
- A pension of up to 12%– We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary
- Our award-winning Vitality health insurance – With its own set of rewards and benefits
- Life Assurance – Four times annual salary
These are just some of the many perks that we offer! To view the extensive range of benefits we offer, please visit our careers page. Fantastic Benefits. Exciting rewards. Great career opportunities!
If you are successful in your application and join us at Vitality, this is our promise to you, we will:
- Help you to be the healthiest you’ve ever been.
- Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self.
- Give you flexibility on how, where and when you work.
- Help you advance your career by playing you to your strengths.
- Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be.
- Give you the space to try, fail and learn.
- Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support.
- Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits.
- Be there for you when you need us.
- Provide opportunities for you to be a force for good in society.
We commit to all these things because we want you to feel that you belong, and are supported to be happy and healthy.