Company Secretarial Assistant- 3-5 years exp (1 year contract- Subsidiary management/ paralegal/ legal environment/ Corporate law/ global stakeholder management exp)

Job Description

Overview

As a member of the Corporate Secretariat team, the successful candidate will assist in providing a full secretariat service to the Group and its overseas subsidiaries (including in the UK&I, AMEA, and LATAM regions).

Providing support within the UK team as part of a busy, friendly international Corporate Secretariat that carries out all core company secretarial responsibilities for the Group’s subsidiaries, with a focus on statutory compliance and record-keeping, routine annual and year-end procedures, and ad-hoc projects, as well as assisting with managing the compliance and maintenance of the Group’s international portfolio of subsidiaries with external consultants/legal service providers.

Your role

• Incorporation/registration of new entities.
• Deregistration/liquidation of existing entities.
• Statutory documentation/files and entity management database records.
• Subsidiary board minutes and shareholder resolutions for both ad hoc and routine matters.
• Statutory returns.
• Statutory accounts.
• Advising on project/bid and KYC support, including preparation of statements and provision of documentation.
• Preparing Powers of Attorney.
• Assisting with document and contract execution requests (notarisation and legalisation requests).
• Supporting the M&A Team on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, reorganisations, and related projects (including post-completion filings and onboarding new entities).
• Assisting the team with the review of UK subsidiary accounts.
• Providing support to other Legal team members.
• Previous practical company secretarial experience (ideally within an international Corporate Secretariat team).
• Experience managing the administration of entities across multiple jurisdictions/internationally.
• Company secretarial technical skills, preferably developed within a complex international group.
• Microsoft Office – Intermediate level.
• Working knowledge of an entity management platform/database (such as EnGlobe or Blueprint) is desirable.

About you

• ICSA qualified or currently undertaking ICSA qualification (ideally with experience working in an international corporate secretariat) or Degree qualified (or equivalent) and willing to undertake ICSA as postgraduate study.

• Good organisational and administrative skills.
• Articulate with excellent communication skills, especially written English.
• Ability to prioritise and manage a large and varied workload.
• Ability to work autonomously with minimal supervision.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with demanding deadlines.
• Willingness to learn and take on new responsibilities and tasks.
• Professional approach.
• Team player.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including tact, honesty, integrity, confidentiality, patience, and the ability to work well with staff at all levels in a multicultural environment.
• Self-motivated with strong problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Excellent accuracy and attention to detail.
• Based in India, primary location: Bangalore, with the possibility of hybrid/remote working as per company policies.

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career.

Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life. 

Seize every opportunity to sharpen your skills, expand your expertise, and be recognized for the impact you make.

About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

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At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.