Governance Assistant
- London
- Full-time
- Affordable Homes
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Do you share our passion for creating a safe, secure, and affordable place for everyone to call home? That's exactly what we're working towards at Affordable Homes. With a fast-growing pipeline, we collaborate with well-known developers, housing associations and public sector bodies across the country to drive new investment into the affordable housing sector.
As part of the wider Legal & General Group, our heritage goes back over 180 years, with a solid reputation as one of the leading financial services groups. We are pioneering institutional investment into the housing sector, whilst providing excellent service and quality homes.
Focusing primarily on the Shared Ownership and affordable rent markets, we strive to be the UK’s leading private affordable housing provider, known for excellent service and quality homes.
We’re recruiting for a Governance Assistant to join us. We’re offering a competitive base salary and good benefits package.
What you'll be doing:
- Overseeing the cycle of boards and committees, including managing the governance calendar, meeting invites, and venues
- Drafting agendas, circulating requests and reminders for papers, and managing the collation and distribution of board papers
- Drafting reports, taking minutes, maintaining risk registers, and tracking progress against actions
- Managing the annual review of board effectiveness, advising board members, and devising actions to enhance performance
- Establishing a CPD programme for board members, arranging individual and collective CPD sessions, and tracking progress
- Assisting with governance and regulatory projects to improve standards and ensure compliance
- Providing administrative assistance to the Assurance
- Developing and maintaining effective electronic filing systems
Who we're looking for:
- Someone with governance administration experience, Company Secretary Assistant or highly motivated PA looking for a change of career
- Excellent working knowledge of governance
- Experience in the financial services and/or affordable housing industries is advantageous
- Proven experience working in a governance or company secretarial team
- Familiarity with the board and committee yearly cycle, meeting organisation, and minute taking
- Well-versed in governance and regulatory best practices
- Strong organisational and communication skills
- Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with stakeholders at all levels
Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:
- The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
- Generous pension contribution
- Life assurance
- Private medical insurance (permanent employees only)
- At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays
- Competitive family leave
- Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice
- There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
- In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart
Legal & General is a leading financial services group and major global investor, named Britain’s Most Admired Company in 2023, for the second year running. Rated top in our sector and top for inspirational leadership, we have a strong heritage and an exciting future.
We aim to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers’ money in things that make life better for everyone.
If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.
We strive to be open, mindful and inclusive, so are always willing to discussing flexible working arrangements and reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs.
If you’re open to find out more, we'd love to hear from you.
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