Assistant Company Secretary VP - BPL

Purpose of the role: 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.

Accountabilities:

• 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.

Vice President Expectations:

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change.
• Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and elevate breaches of policies/procedures.
• If managing a team, define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department's future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes.
• Lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• Demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship - our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset - to Empower, Challenge and Drive - the operating manual for how we behave.

This is an excellent role for an experienced company secretarial or governance professional looking to develop their career in a complex, regulated and transforming business. As a Barclaycard Payments Assistant Company Secretary VP, you would work closely with directors, senior executives and advisers, play an important part in shaping proportionate and effective governance arrangements, and have the support, training and resources of a market-leading organisation behind you to help you maximise your potential.

To be successful as an Assistant Company Secretary VP - BPL, you should have:

• Substantial company secretarial or corporate governance experience, gained in a complex corporate group, regulated business or professional services environment.
• Strong working knowledge of UK company law and corporate governance requirements, including the Companies Act 2006 and the operation of subsidiary boards and committees.
• Practical experience of planning and supporting board and senior executive meetings, including agenda development, board paper management, minute-taking, action tracking and post‑meeting governance.
• Experience maintaining statutory registers and entity records and coordinating formal statutory and regulatory filings.
• Strong written drafting skills, with the ability to produce accurate minutes, resolutions, governance documents and concise advice for senior stakeholders.
• Excellent organisation and prioritisation skills, with the ability to manage recurring governance cycles and competing deadlines with limited supervision.
• Confidence and credibility in dealing with Chairs, non‑executive directors, senior executives, regulators, advisers and other senior stakeholders.
• High standards of judgement, discretion, accuracy and attention to detail.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Chartered Governance Professional qualification, or progress towards an equivalent company secretarial or governance qualification.
• Experience in financial services, payments, electronic money, fintech or another regulated sector.
• Experience supporting an FCA-regulated entity and/or an Irish regulated financial services entity.
• Experience coordinating governance across UK, Irish and Jersey companies and working with local counsel or corporate services providers.
• Experience supporting corporate transformation, carve‑out, legal entity reorganisation or the establishment of standalone governance arrangements.
• Experience with entity management systems, board portals and governance workflow or records‑management tools.

This role can be located in London or Northampton.

Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self‑disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.