Assistant Company Secretary

To play a crucial role in ensuring the Barclays Group’s adherence to statutory and regulatory corporate governance requirements and industry standards, facilitating communication between the board of directors and other key stakeholders for regulated and/or significant Barclays Group legal entities

• Act as Company Secretary to regulated or significant legal entities, including liaison with the Chairman and senior executives, assisting with board succession and board and committee evaluations, agenda preparation, board paper management, attending and minuting board meetings where required
• Provision of support, advice and guidance to the Barclays Group on company law and appropriate regulations, its own policies and best practice in corporate governance and to the Directors on their fiduciary duties and other legal or regulatory obligations
• Creation and review of corporate governance documents, including charters, terms of reference, matters reserved for the board, policies, and procedures in compliance with legal and regulatory requirements
• Maintenance of compliance with corporate governance requirements, best practices and industry standards across the Barclays Group governance practices
• Assistance on project work, for instance corporate re-organisations, liquidations, mergers and formations and the signing of subsidiary financial accounts
• Maintenance of the company’s statutory registers, other registers such as conflict of interest registers, and data fields required for adherence to Barclays Group policies and standards
• Stakeholders support with their ongoing compliance with the Group Policy on Legal Entities and Directors
• To manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives
• Manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business
• Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives
• Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function
• Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately
• Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence
• Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate
• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives
• Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives
• Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations
• Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area
• Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally
• Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions
• Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division
• Demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard
• Demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship
• Demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive

• Hybrid working
• Structured approach to hybrid working with fixed 'anchor' days
• Supportive and inclusive culture and environment
• Commitment to flexible working arrangements
• Opportunity to embrace mobility and explore operations globally
• Diverse and inclusive workplace