Salary: £30,000 depending on experience
Opportunity: To develop within the role and to progress your career
Hours: 35 hours per week

Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance, statutory holidays and a holiday purchase scheme
• Company pension contribution and 4 x salary Life Assurance after qualifying period
• Development opportunities
• Wellbeing and Smart Health Employee Assistance Programme
• Up to 21 hours paid volunteering time per annum
• Hybrid working pattern: combination of office and working-from-home days per week
• Company socials and events
• Free onsite parking
• Free electric car charging point onsite

About us

Ecology Building Society is a successful and thriving member-owned mortgage and savings provider with a clear environmental focus and a mission to promote sustainable development. We are committed to building a greener society through the provision of a range of simple, ethical savings products to support mortgage lending for properties and projects that respect the environment.

We offer a wide range of specialist mortgage products and for the second time in three years have been recognised in the Mortgage Finance Gazette Awards, in the Best Self-build lender category. This award acknowledges Ecology’s role as a longstanding leading supporter of self and custom-build in the UK.

This is a great introductory or early career role for someone at the start of their company secretarial career and will offer a wide range of experience across a regulated financial services business.

About the role

To assist the Company Secretary in providing a full governance and company secretarial service to the Society. You’ll gain exposure to a wide range of experience across a regulated financial services business with the opportunity to grow with the role.

What you'll be doing

• Supporting the Company Secretary to deliver first-class governance and company secretarial support, ensuring compliance with regulatory and statutory obligations and that all board procedures and guidelines are followed.
• Board and committee support – supporting the Chair in setting agendas for meetings, requesting and collating board/committee papers and issuing packs.
• Attendance at meetings and taking minutes to a high quality and ensuring that the meeting operates within best practice guidelines.
• Undertake quality assurance for board/committee materials.
• Supporting the Company Secretary to deliver an annual calendar of company secretarial activity, including but not limited to preparing the annual Board and committee meeting schedule, conflicts of interest annual reviews, year-end director declarations; annual governance effectiveness reviews and the director skills matrix.
• Supporting the company secretary to ensure that the Society maintains an appropriate governance framework including maintaining appropriate delegated authorities, Committee Terms of Reference and Matters Reserved for the Boards.
• Supporting the requirements of the FCA/PRA Senior Managers and Certification Regime including applications, amendments, withdrawals and maintenance of the Management Responsibilities Map.
• Supporting the preparation and delivery of the Annual General Meeting.

What you can expect

You'll be supported in your development so that you can grow your skills and fulfil your potential. We are currently operating in a hybrid working environment, meaning that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office on a varied basis depending upon the requirements of the role and the team.

What you will bring

• You’ll be organised, flexible, motivated and with meticulous attention to detail.
• proficient in using all Microsoft Office packages with the ability to efficiently produce and present written information to a consistently high standard.
• have the ability to handle confidential material with discretion and diplomacy.
• want to make a difference - to your career, the role, the Society and its mission
• ICSA part-qualified or with a relevant degree and experience, committed to undertaking further training.

To apply, please send your CV and a covering letter to [email protected] outlining your suitability for the role and your alignment with our mission. Applications without a covering letter will not be considered.

Please note that the successful candidate will be required to undergo a Basic DBS and credit check.

We celebrate and invite applications from all cultures, backgrounds, tastes and experiences and are proud of our culture where people from all walks of life can thrive.

Application deadline: 18 July 2022