Company Secretarial Senior/Assistant Manager

Company Secretarial Senior/Assistant Manager

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A Career at Grant Thornton

Looking for a more fulfilling role in professional services? One where fresh thinking, collaboration and diversity are valued? At Grant Thornton we do things differently.

What does this mean for you?

A career in a more inclusive working environment, a more collaborative work culture, a more supported, flexible working role, more possibilities to grow and more opportunities to help shape the future for your clients. We respect and value your experience. And we want you to bring your authentic self to work and be at your best. It is how it should be.

Grow with us

At Grant Thornton, we care about our people and work hard to make you feel valued. If you are looking to deepen and develop your skills, knowledge, and experience throughout your career, then that is what you will get, and more

An exciting opportunity has arisen in our UK Company Secretarial team for a Senior or Assistant Manager. This is an exciting opportunity to join a rapidly expanding Corporate Compliance Department in our Belfast office and has been created as a result of growth within the function and the firm overall.

Our Corporate Compliance function which works closely with both Tax and Audit in providing an accurate, efficient and responsive service to clients in meeting their corporate compliance obligations. This service includes assisting with the administrative burden of corporate compliance as well as planning for corporate challenges to avoid the risks associated with failure to follow often complex statutory procedures.

The role will comprise of the following activities:

• Managing a large portfolio of UK-incorporated diverse clients across varied industry sectors, with responsibility for ensuring that clients are meeting their statutory obligations

• Provide advice to clients on a range of corporate governance issues and issues arising from the UK Companies Act 2006 and associated secondary legislation.

• Building and maintaining client relationships

• Responsibility for billing clients and debtor management

The successful candidate will be and possess:

• Prior UK professional services experience either gained in an accountancy/legal practice or specialist firm

• Excellent MS Office and IT skills

• Good working knowledge of leading legal entity management databases (e.g. Blueprint One World, GEMS etc.)

• Strong client focus with excellent oral and written communication skills

• Client-centred approach

• Ability to work on own initiative

• Strong technical ability

Life at GT 

Reward and benefits: 

Our reward and benefits are designed to create an environment where our people can flourish. We are committed to building a culture where our people have access to the necessary benefits to help promote a healthy lifestyle and thrive. 

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion:

At Grant Thornton, we provide equitable opportunities for all our colleagues. We are a responsible, sustainable business where equity, diversity and inclusion (ED&I) is at the forefront of our workplace culture agenda, and today, we continue to build and develop on our existing ED&I structure and strategy to meet our workplace culture needs. People are at the heart of our business and teams built with varied backgrounds, racial differences, cultures, sexual orientations, religious orientations, ages, gender identities, abilities and family types present diverse viewpoints, which need to be heard and valued.

We are all at our best when we are able to be ourselves and we view integrity and authenticity as integral values to bring to our day-to-day work-life at the firm. We are excited to see the personality and perspectives you will bring to our team because we know we will all benefit from them. Diversity of thought, background and experience enables better decision-making, improves the quality of our delivery, and helps us to meet the needs of our clients. Our firm is built on people and their ideas, so we want to hear all the new perspectives and fresh thinking you have to offer. You form the bedrock of our firm’s best-practice principles and we will champion you as leaders from day one.

Recognition: 

We want to create a culture of recognition and celebrating success, by saying thank you to people who surpass our expectations and recognising the right values and behaviours. Our Shout Out recognition scheme is our way of highlighting and promoting achievements. Whether you simply want to say thank you, celebrate a special occasion or give an award for doing something exceptional, you can do all of this and more through the scheme. 

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