Group Company Secretary

Responsibilities:

Own and lead the Group Company Secretarial function across Titan:

• Maintain the clear and proportionate Group governance framework across the parent company, regulated entities and other subsidiaries.
• Act as a trusted adviser to Board Chairs, directors and senior executives on corporate governance, directors' duties, Board effectiveness and decision-making.
• Promote high and consistent governance standards while ensuring appropriate recognition of each subsidiary Board's individual responsibilities.
• Maintain appropriate governance policies, frameworks, authorities and terms of reference across the Group.
• Keep governance arrangements under review as Titan's organisational and legal entity structure evolves.
• Work closely with Group Compliance, Risk, Legal, Finance and other control functions to ensure that governance arrangements remain effective and joined-up.

Titan's existing company secretarial remit expressly includes advising Group Boards on governance and legal/regulatory requirements and providing legal, financial and strategic advice to Boards and senior management.

 

Board and Committee Governance

• Oversee the effective operation of Group and subsidiary Boards and Board Committees.
• Ensure Board and Committee calendars, agendas, forward plans and governance processes support effective oversight and decision-making.
• Set and maintain standards for Board and Committee papers, minutes, action tracking and maintenance of corporate records.
• Work with Chairs and executives to ensure matters are escalated to the appropriate governance forum and that responsibilities between Group and subsidiary Boards are clear.
• Provide advice to directors before, during and following Board meetings.
• Support Board and Committee effectiveness reviews and implementation of resulting actions.
• Maintain an effective director induction, training and ongoing development framework.

 

Leadership of the Group Company Secretarial Team

• Lead, manage and develop Company Secretarial colleagues located within different businesses and entities across Titan.
• Create a genuine Group Company Secretarial function, with consistent standards, ways of working, quality expectations and appropriate oversight.
• Establish clear roles, responsibilities and accountabilities across central and entity-level Company Secretarial resources.
• Provide professional leadership, coaching and technical support to the wider team.
• Ensure appropriate allocation of resources across legal entities and governance forums.
• Build appropriate succession planning and resilience within the function.
• Drive greater consistency and efficiency without unnecessarily centralising activities that are better performed within individual businesses.

 

M&A, Consolidation and Integration

• Provide Company Secretarial and governance leadership in connection with acquisitions, disposals, integrations and corporate restructuring.
• Assess the governance arrangements of acquired businesses and oversee their transition into Titan's Group governance framework.
• Establish appropriate governance structures for newly acquired or reorganised entities.
• Work with Legal, Compliance, Risk, Finance and M&A teams to ensure governance considerations are identified and addressed throughout acquisition and integration activity.
• Oversee changes to legal entity structures, directors, committees, delegated authorities and constitutional documentation resulting from acquisitions or reorganisations.
• Identify duplication, governance gaps and unnecessary complexity across acquired structures and recommend pragmatic solutions.
• Ensure that rapid commercial growth does not outpace the Group's governance infrastructure.

Statutory and Legal Entity Governance

• Maintain oversight of statutory compliance across the Group's legal entities.
• Ensure accurate and timely corporate filings and maintenance of statutory books and registers.
• Maintain effective oversight of Companies House and other relevant corporate filing requirements.
• Oversee entity incorporations, dissolutions, reorganisations and changes to directors and officers.
• Maintain appropriate Group records of legal entities, directors, shareholders and governance structures.
• Ensure corporate approvals and authorities are appropriately documented.
• Maintain effective controls over delegated authorities, powers of attorney and execution authorities where
• these sit within the Company Secretarial remit.

Regulatory Governance

• Work closely with the Group Compliance and Risk functions to ensure governance arrangements support the requirements applicable to Titan's regulated businesses.
• Understand the interaction between corporate governance, regulated entity governance and the responsibilities of senior management.
• Support appropriate governance arrangements around regulatory permissions, senior management responsibilities and significant corporate transactions.
• Ensure relevant regulatory developments are understood by Boards and appropriately reflected within governance arrangements.
• Support the governance aspects of regulatory engagement where Company Secretarial input is required.

Critical Skills and Experience required:

Essential:

 

• Substantial Company Secretarial and corporate governance experience gained within UK financial services.
• Previous senior-level experience within a wealth management, financial planning, investment management or comparable financial-services consolidator.
• Demonstrable experience of working within a business that has grown through multiple acquisitions and subsequent integration.
• Previous responsibility for managing and developing a Company Secretarial team, ideally where team members are distributed across different businesses, entities or locations.
• Significant experience supporting subsidiary and Group Boards within a complex corporate structure.
• Strong practical understanding of UK company law, corporate governance and directors' duties.
• Experience of regulated financial-services governance and working alongside Compliance, Risk and Legal functions.
• Strong understanding of the respective roles of Group Boards, regulated entity Boards and Board Committees.
• Experience establishing or improving governance frameworks across multiple legal entities.
• Strong Board and executive-level stakeholder management skills.
• Experience advising Chairs, executive and non-executive directors.
• Excellent judgement, with the confidence to challenge senior stakeholders constructively where governance standards require it.
• Demonstrates strong interest and experience in Demonstrates a strong interest in emerging technologies, including AI, and a proven ability to identify practical opportunities to improve governance processes.
• Comfortable challenging traditional ways of working and implementing technology-enabled solutions that enhance board effectiveness, reduce manual effort and improve the quality, consistency and accessibility of governance information.
 

Highly Desirable:

 

• Experience participating in the governance workstream of acquisitions, integrations and legal entity rationalisation.
• Experience working across financial planning, wealth management, investment management and/or asset management businesses.
• Experience improving governance technology, Board portals, entity-management systems and Company Secretarial processes.

Qualifications (Essential & Desirable):

Essential:

• ICSA qualified with 7 to 10 years + post qualification experience