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We’ll value you for who you are and what you bring. We support each other and push boundaries to achieve incredible things and make a real difference to our clients and communities.

We're always looking to support our colleagues to work in a way that works best for them and everyone else, including our clients, the business and the regulators. Please speak to a member of our Recruitment and Onboarding team for more information.

Our Corporate team advises clients across the full spectrum of corporate finance, from mergers and acquisitions to private equity investments. We work with a dynamic mix of substantial private companies, private equity-backed businesses, ambitious entrepreneurs, and fast-growing ventures.

As a Company Secretarial Manager, you’ll play a key role in managing and expanding our portfolio of company secretarial clients, supported by a Company Secretarial Assistant who you’ll supervise and mentor. This diverse client base spans all Irwin Mitchell offices, giving you the opportunity to collaborate across the firm and make a real impact. This is a pivotal role in supporting our growing portfolio of clients and enabling the delivery of company incorporation services across our Corporate and Private Client teams. You’ll also play a key part in our international practice, helping overseas clients and intermediaries establish businesses in the UK.

With the introduction of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act (ECCTA), the regulatory landscape has evolved significantly. This has increased the importance of having a dedicated expert to oversee filings and statutory updates, ensuring compliance and reducing risk. Your expertise will be central to helping us maintain the highest standards of service and governance.

You will be expected to:

• Independently manage a portfolio of company secretarial work
• Delivery of the day-to-day administration of client companies, e.g. maintaining statutory books, including registers of members, directors and secretaries
• Manage the day-to-day company secretarial requests received from clients and acting as the first point of contact
• Draft shareholder resolutions, board minutes and other corporate documentation
• Complete Company House filings
• Liaise with colleagues in regard to new business opportunities and all necessary company secretarial work
• Work with our business development team to promote our company secretarial service
• Manage the company secretarial billing cycle

• A professional company secretarial qualification
• Experience of managing and providing company secretarial services in a company secretarial business, a large corporate or a professional firm
• Familiarly of the Diligent (formerly Blueprint) company secretarial software solution

• 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can ‘buy’ up to 35hrs of extra holiday too.
• Generous and flexible pension schemes.
• Volunteering days – Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)
• Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.

We also offer a wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you’re fully supported.  This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over a hybrid way of working subject to role, team and client requirements.

We have been ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2024!

Our responsible business programmes are fundamental to who we are and our purpose. We’re committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our colleagues can flourish, and we have established a number of inclusion network groups across our business to support this aim. 

Our commitment to Social Responsibility, community investment activity and tackling climate change is a fundamental part of who we are. It’s made up of four strands: Our People, Our Community, Our Environment and Our Pro Bono.

As part of the Irwin Mitchell Group’s on-boarding process all successful applicants are required to complete the group’s employment screening process. This process helps to ensure that all new employees meet our standards in relation to honesty and integrity therefore protecting the interests of the Group, colleagues, clients, partners and other stakeholders.

We carry out pre employment screening to establish your eligibility to work in the UK, criminal record and financial checks ­with our trusted 3rd parties.

The employment screening process will fully comply with Data Protection and other applicable laws.

Irwin Mitchell LLP is an equal opportunity employer.