We have an incredible opportunity to join us here at Phoenix Group as a Company Secretarial & Share Plans Assistant to join our Company Secretarial function.
Who are we?
We want to be the best place that any of our 6,800 colleagues have ever worked.
We’re the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business. We offer our 12 million customers products across our market-leading brands, including Standard Life, SunLife and ReAssure, with c.£259 billion of assets under administration. We’re a FTSE 100 organisation that is tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we’re not done yet.
The role
This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in supporting the structure, framework and profile of the Company Secretarial function, enabling the function to be seen as a trusted voice in the business.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Supporting the Share Plans Manager with their role to provide day-to -day support for the administration of the discretionary and all-employee share schemes.
- Acting as Secretary to the PGH plc BIAC.
- Core PLC compliance and company secretariat support. .
- Responding to discretionary and all-employee share plan queries from current and ex-employees.
- Supporting the Share Plans Manager with the grant and vesting of discretionary plans.
- Supporting the Share Plans Manager with the SAYE invitation launch and maturity of the 3 and current 5 year plans.
- Support the Share Plans Manager with improving employee engagement and communication of Share Plans. Draft and submit to the LSE monthly SIP announcements and ad hoc PDMR announcements.
- Submit FCA notifications following such announcements.
- Maintain the PDMR and PCA registers of share interests.
- Responsible for updating the issued share capital spreadsheet for all discretionary and all-employee exercises and vestings filing relevant forms at the Registrar.
- Assist, if requested, with drafting parts of the Governance and Directors Remuneration Reports for the Group’s Annual Report & Accounts.
- Assisting the Deputy and Assistant Company Secretary with Group projects, as required.
What are we looking for?
- High quality communication skills along with great stakeholder management skills, being able to influence and build lasting relationships at all levels across the business
- Commercial acumen and a good understanding business opportunities and challenges.
- A creative and dynamic thinker and you
- Ready to take on qualification to become a certified company secretary or a newly qualified company secretary or solicitor.
- Ideally you will have some Financial Services or other highly regulated industry experience.
We want to hire the whole version of you.
We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.
Find out more about #LifeAtPhoenix
- Guide for Candidates: thephoenixgroup.pagetiger.com/guideforcandidates
- Find or get answers from our colleagues: www.thephoenixgroup.com/careers/talk-to-us