Title:  Assistant Company Secretary

Package:  Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role ID:    SF17879

Are you ready to be part of the future? At QinetiQ, we’re not just imagining tomorrow we are creating it. From cutting edge defence technology to ground breaking innovations our mission is to empower and protect lives. Join us as an Assistant Company Secretary at our Farnborough site, where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in partnership with some of the most brilliant minds.

The Role
As an Assistant Company Secretary you will support the company secretarial function in ensuring that the QinetiQ Group is fully compliant with its continued listing on the London Stock Exchange, and with the Corporate Governance Code and the UK Companies Act.

Day-to-day, you’ll be responsible for providing expert Company Secretarial advice and comprehensive administrative Board support in respect of the Group’s principal operating subsidiaries, administration of the Group’s employee share plans and providing assistance to the Senior Assistant Company Secretary in ensuring that the QinetiQ Group is compliant with Corporate Governance and Companies Act requirements.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Providing expert Company Secretarial advice to support the Group, through having an appropriate frameworks in place to protect strategic, operational, reputational, and financial risks, from a company law compliance perspective
• Supporting the Company Secretary to ensure full compliance with the Listing Rules, Disclosure and Transparency Rules (DTRs) and Corporate Governance Code, to safeguard the Company’s continued listing with the London Stock Exchange
• Contributing to the development of the Company Secretarial function strategy, bringing best practices to raise the profile of the team
• Providing administrative support and statutory compliance with UK Companies act for all UK subsidiaries within the QinetiQ group
• Monitoring and supporting compliance with the Market Abuse Regulation to safeguard the Group from breach of compliance, and fines from the FCA, including the set-up of an independently assessed and fully evidenced MAR compliance
• Liaising with Reward, EQ, and the Employee Benefit Trust trustees and assisting with the awards made to participants in the QinetiQ Group Incentive Scheme, award vesting and ongoing administration

Essential experience of the Assistant Company Secretary: 

• Excellent understanding of the company secretarial function in a FTSE quoted company
• Ability to work autonomously on tasks and manage own workload
• Highly organized, with excellent attention to detail

Essential qualifications for the Assistant Company Secretary:

• ICSA Qualified

This role is 37 hours per week based at Farnborough. Hybrid working patterns available.

At our Farnborough site exciting work takes place at our state of the art facility, with high-energy laser technologies, our high-speed 5m pressurised low wind tunnel which has a simulation capability that is unique in the UK and our large research and development projects it is a real hub of creativity, research and innovation.  Join our talented teams of Engineers, IT & Cyber Specialists, Project Managers, Group Functions Teams and many more to provide future defences in the UK.

Why Join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges. As a QinetiQ employee, you’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Visit our website to read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture.  www.qinetiq.com/en/careers/life-at-qinetiq

Our Benefits

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Generous holiday allowance, with the option to purchase additional days
• Options to join Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance
• Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more
• We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant and maintaining our Gold Award standard in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme
• Volunteering Opportunities - helping charities and local community

Our Recruitment Process:

We want to make sure that our recruitment process is as inclusive as possible and we aspire to bring out the best in our candidates by creating an environment where everyone feels value, heard and supported.  If you have a disability or health condition that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your Recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting being completed, applicants who already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment. A number of roles are also subject to additional restrictions, which mean factors such as nationality or previous nationalities may affect the roles that you can be employed in.

For further information on National Security Vetting please see link below

UKSV National Security Vetting Solution: guidance for applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)