Group Company Secretary
| Company: | Aventum Group |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Hours: | Full-time |
| Location: | London, EC3R 8AF |
| Working pattern: | On-site |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Posting date: | 21 Aug 2026 |
| Closing date: | 20 Sept 2026 |
Summary
Role Summary
The Group Company Secretary leads the corporate governance framework across Aventum Group’s international portfolio of companies, ensuring compliance with legal, regulatory and statutory obligations across multiple jurisdictions. As a trusted adviser to the Board, Executive Management, and regulated business units, the role provides expert guidance on governance, corporate structure, entity management, and board effectiveness, while promoting high standards of transparency, accountability, and governance best practice.
Role Accountability Requirements
- Corporate Governance and Board Support
- Advise on and facilitate compliance with relevant statutory, regulatory and corporate governance requirements.
- Develop, maintain and continually enhance the Group’s governance framework, policies and procedures.
- Organise and administer Board and Committee meetings, including annual scheduling, agendas, board packs, attendance, minutes, resolutions and action tracking.
- Provide clear governance and procedural advice to directors and senior management.
- Support Board effectiveness reviews, governance best practice initiatives and the director training programme.
- Manage director appointments and resignations, identity verification requirements, beneficial ownership filings and corporate record updates.
- Promote open and transparent communication across the Legal team and wider business, building positive relationships with internal stakeholders.
- Entity Management, Compliance and Regulatory Support
Oversee governance requirements for an international portfolio of companies and ensure statutory filings are completed accurately and on time across relevant jurisdictions.
- Maintain statutory registers, corporate records, shareholder records, cap tables and current corporate structure charts.
- Manage company formations, dissolutions, reorganisations and other corporate changes.
- Administer share issuances, transfers, buybacks, reclassifications and capital reductions, and support the administration of the company share option scheme.
- Liaise with external legal advisers, corporate service providers, regulators and supervisory authorities globally.
Maintain governance documentation required for regulatory submissions and applications, and support audit, risk and compliance reviews from a governance perspective.
- Monitor developments in company law, regulatory requirements and governance best practice, identifying governance risks and recommending proportionate mitigation.
- Manage Group-wide KYC and due diligence information requests, providing accurate corporate documentation, governance information and ownership details to internal stakeholders and third parties.
- Support mergers, acquisitions, disposals, restructurings and post-transaction governance integration activities where required.
- Performance and Service Delivery
- Ensure governance committees are established, diarised and supported with appropriate documentation and clear attendance requirements.
- Deliver accurate, high-quality agendas, meeting packs, minutes, resolutions, and governance records within agreed timescales.
- Maintain consistent application of governance processes and policies in line with legal requirements and best practice.
- Meet internal and external reporting requirements and deliver services within agreed time and budget parameters. Complete statutory filings by deadline, with no regulatory penalties attributable to governance failures. Maintain corporate records to a standard that supports clean audit outcomes and effective regulatory review.
- Build trusted relationships with the Board, senior leaders, regulators, corporate service providers and legal advisers.
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