Assistant Manager

About Law Debenture

Law Debenture is an Investment Trust supported by a wholly owned professional services business. LawDeb is an unusual and exciting proposition; on a day–to-day basis we are nimble, ambitious and small enough to know everyone by name, whilst also benefiting from the profile and credibility of a listed business. This is thanks to our 137-year-old FTSE250 investment trust and our fast-growing independent professional services business of over 300 colleagues across 6 business lines.

At LawDeb, doing work that has a positive impact is important to us. We need the very best people to be the custodians of our business for the next stage of our proud history and growth. We’re ambitious to innovate, collaborate and push forward in providing peace of mind and excellence for our clients and each other.

We’re on a journey to shape a culture we’re all proud to be part of. One where everyone feels trusted, supported and empowered to own their success. Working at LawDeb, you will have access to our enviable network of clients and innovative projects, as well as brilliant colleagues to learn from and collaborate with.

Role Overview

Responsible for delivering an extensive range of corporate secretarial and governance services to a portfolio of clients, providing high quality advice and work with others to deliver an excellent client experience and ensure clients remain up to date with their statutory obligations and best practice.

During your role, you may support clients through secondments (either part or full-time) and your role and responsibilities may vary slightly to the below depending on the clients’ needs.

Main responsibilities

Client delivery and technical knowledge

• Deliver a range of high-quality company secretarial services to a range of clients, ensuring that the delivery of services is in line with the relevant client agreement.
• Correspond directly with clients and third parties.
• Provide end to end board and committee support for clients, including drafting meeting papers where applicable, meeting paper collation, attendance at meetings, drafting minutes and chasing actions.
• Providing advice regarding the Companies Act, Listing Rules, Disclosure, Guidance and Transparency Rules, Market Abuse Regulation and corporate governance.
• Drafting a wide variety of regulatory announcements.
• Drafting the non-financial disclosures of Half-Year and Annual Reports, including the preparation of the notice of annual general meeting and all associated documentation.
• Providing advice on corporate governance best practice and reviewing relevant documentation.
• Undertaking research on best market practice and benchmarking against your clients’ peers, where required.
• Ensure you remain up to date with relevant legal and regulatory requirements, including horizon scanning for upcoming changes.
• Undertaking ad-hoc requests and administrative matters (authorised signatory requests, board minute extracts, auditor requests, reviewing terms of reference etc.).
• Mentoring junior members of the team on technical matters, where applicable.
• Provide feedback on work produced, and answer queries, by more junior members of the team, to ensure that quality service delivery to clients is maintained across CSS UK.
• Prepare and provide training to the team, either through training sessions or our monthly technical newsletter.

Commercial

• Identify opportunities to introduce new business, develop additional sales from existing clients and cross-sell services across Law Debenture where possible.
• Ensure that any out of scope work is flagged, working with CSS UK senior management to agree an appropriate charge and liaise with the client on agreeing additional fees, prior to undertaking the work.
• Support the CSS UK senior management team in drafting proposals for new business, and assist with initial pricing proposals.

Operational

• Provide support as required in developing processes and procedures within the CSS UK team.
• Balance your client delivery and any non-client projects such that you meet your utilisation targets.
• Follow operational processes which ensure financial hygiene (time recording, in/out of scope work, billing etc), effective document management and support data driven decision making (e.g., up to date skills matrix, feedback and performance management etc).

Essential Knowledge, Skills, Experience

• CGI part or fully qualified (or other professional qualification if relevant experience can be demonstrated).
• Experience of attending and minuting Board and Committee meetings.
• Strong organisational skills.
• High level of attention to detail.
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal, and confident in communicating effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
• A team player, who can work effectively and collaboratively with colleagues and stakeholders.
• Commercial and practical outlook.
• Ability to build relationships and rapport, demonstrating credibility.
• Ability to work on your own initiative and to take ownership of tasks, time and workload by prioritising and managing expectations.
• Excellent computer skills, in particular MS Office, Excel and Outlook.
• High standard of professional and personal conduct and ethical behaviour.
• Use of Diligent Entities is preferable, but not essential.

Your Reward

Competitive salary with performance bonus scheme

Generous pension contribution

Full healthcare cover

Health cash plan

Life assurance

Buy/sell annual leave scheme

People who thrive at LawDeb make the most of this foundation to grow themselves, help us improve and have fun playing their part in building the culture that’s fuelling our growth.

LawDeb hires people based on personal merit and qualifications regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background or any other protected attribute. We celebrate the diversity of our colleagues and provide an inclusive environment so you can bring your true self to work. We recognise that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. If you feel that you require any reasonable adjustments to be able to participate in this recruitment process, please provide further details where prompted.

Please note that we have a thorough referencing process, which includes credit and criminal record checks.

If you’d like to find out more about LawDeb and our open vacancies, please contact our careers team on [email protected].