Senior Assistant Company Secretary in London

Location: Wigmore Street, London + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Shape governance at the heart of a global organisation driving national security. At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Assistant Company Secretary at Wigmore Street, London.

The role

As a Senior Assistant Company Secretary, you’ll step into a high-impact role at the centre of our Group Secretariat function. You’ll combine hands-on technical delivery with strategic thinking, influencing governance frameworks, systems, and processes. Your work will directly support international growth, corporate restructuring, and compliance, making a meaningful contribution to a business that underpins defence, aerospace, and critical infrastructure.

Day-to-day, you’ll be:

• Managing statutory records, filings, and compliance for UK entities and supporting global governance activities
• Supporting UK listed obligations including regulatory announcements, annual reports, and annual general meeting processes
• Overseeing subsidiary governance across multiple jurisdictions and liaising with internal and external stakeholders
• Maintaining and improving entity management systems, ensuring accurate and reliable governance data
• Driving process improvements, standardisation, and automation across company secretarial activities
• Responsible for guiding and supporting a trainee

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and is based at Wigmore Street, London. Hybrid working patterns are available with 3 days office based.

Essential Experience of the Senior Assistant Company Secretary

• Demonstrating strong company secretarial experience within a UK listed environment (including regulatory compliance and reporting)
• Managing subsidiary governance across multiple jurisdictions
• Delivering statutory compliance, filings, and governance processes at scale
• Working with governance systems and driving data integrity and process improvements
• Operating both strategically and hands-on with a proactive, ownership-driven mindset

Qualifications for the Senior Assistant Company Secretary

• Degree-level education
• Chartered Governance Institute qualification
• Strong knowledge of United Kingdom company law and corporate governance requirements
• Proven ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held.

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• Be Kind Day enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
• A dynamic working environment

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference. Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance. We call that lifetime engineering. Join us and see how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 27/05/2026