Company Secretary in London

About Griffin

We’re Griffin. We’re a fully regulated UK bank that powers the accounts and payments offerings of product-led fintechs and platforms like Uber, Yonder, Prosper, and Sidekick. By doing the heavy lifting behind the scenes, our customers can focus on what they do best - delivering amazing customer experiences.

We’ve grown rapidly since our launch in 2024, and today provide the banking backbone behind products in remittance, payroll, wealth, insurance, proptech, payments, neobanking and more. We’re moving into card issuing, stablecoin infrastructure, and agentic finance next as we continue to support the next generation of product-led companies.

Our culture

We believe that smart, motivated, conscientious people thrive in high-trust, high-autonomy environments and have done our best to create such an environment at Griffin. People who thrive here don’t require much hand-holding, and go out of their way to figure out how to contribute in the most valuable way possible.

We've been remote-first since we were established in 2017 and we remain so today. Work here is asynchronous and fully flexible - because we want to be a part of your life in a way that helps you to get the most out of both your work and home life.

We understand that our culture and ways of working aren’t for everyone, and we’re very intentional about our hiring process as a result. We won't hire people who don’t seem like a strong fit for our core values, even if they're otherwise extremely qualified.

The Team

Our Risk and Compliance team keeps Griffin compliant, protected and moving quickly and like most of the company, we are growing fast. Governance sits at the heart of what we do: we take it seriously, build it properly, and treat it as a foundation for everything else. This role sits at the centre of that and you'll be the person who makes things happen.

The Opportunity

Reporting to our Head of Compliance, you'll own our company secretarial function end to end, creating structure, clarity, and confidence at Board level. You’ll be a trusted point of contact for the Board, our iNEDs, and senior stakeholders across the business and operating at the heart of decision-making and helping shape how we scale. You will also have the opportunity to support the legal team with paralegal work (contracts negotiation, NDAs, legal research, and more).

What Success Looks Like

In your first few months, you will have taken full ownership of the board and committee cycle. Papers go out on time, minutes are turned around promptly, and actions are tracked and closed without anyone having to chase you. You will be the go-to person for the share options scheme, built strong relationships with our external advisers, and created systems that scale as Griffin grows. Beyond that, senior leadership are spending less time on governance administration because you have made the process seamless. The Board and iNEDs know who you are and trust you to keep things moving. You are a go-to person for governance questions across the business.

To Do This You’ll Own

• The full board and committee cycle (scheduling, papers, minutes, and action tracking) across the Board, BAC, BRC, P&G, Exco, and internal committees.
• Griffin's governance framework and delegated authorities, ensuring they are up to date and stay current as we grow.
• Preparing and managing regulatory submissions and notifications to the FCA and PRA, including controller forms and ad hoc regulatory notifications.
• Act as a key point of contact for board members, helping information flow smoothly and deadlines being met.
• The end-to-end share options scheme and shareholder relations (cap table management, share transfers, AGMs).
• Companies House and statutory filings including director appointments and resignations, confirmation statements and changes to articles.
• Support contract reviews, NDA sign-offs, and legal research as a smaller part of the role.

Your background

To ensure this, we're looking for people who have:

• Relevant experience in a company secretarial, assistant company secretary, or governance support role within a bank or regulated financial services environment.
• A big passion for all things governance and are fully qualified company secretary or working towards full qualification or another appropriate legal / accounting qualification.
• Hands-on experience supporting board or committee operations (scheduling, papers, minutes, action tracking) and working familiarity with SM&CR and its requirements for a regulated firm.
• Highly organised and detail-oriented, with the confidence to communicate with senior stakeholders, board members, and regulators.
• Experience with share option scheme administration (Ledgy or similar).
• Proactive and comfortable taking ownership in a fast-moving environment.
• A love of writing - we have a major amount of written documentation that you will be contributing to, and we place a high degree of importance on clarity and readability.

Ideally, you would also have

• Legal or paralegal background, particularly in Commercial contracts.
• Experience in a startup or scale-up environment.

We expect you to shape this role. This description reflects what we need today. How you achieve these outcomes, where you focus your energy, how this role evolves—that's for you to define as you learn what our customers need and where our technical gaps are.

What can we offer you?

We are an early stage startup and we're working hard to expand our benefits package. We're planning to add to this list in the future.

• Remote-first flexibility: Work from anywhere in the UK.
• Work from abroad: Up to 20 days a year.
• Time off: 25 days’ holiday, bank holidays and a winter break (we shut down between Christmas and New Year).
• Share options: Own a part of what we’re building together.
• Pension: Auto-enrolment into our Penfold scheme.
• Insurance: Private medical with Bupa (including family cover) and life insurance with AIG.
• Wellbeing: 1:1 coaching and therapy session available through Oliva.
• Family leave: Enhanced parental leave with up to 6 months on full pay after two years’ service.
• AI tools: Everyone has a Claude subscription on us and access to other premium tools.
• Your setup: We’ll support you in creating a comfortable and effective WFH environment.

As a bank, we’re committed to maintaining the highest standards of security. This means that the successful candidate will need to complete background screening, and our offer will be conditional upon satisfactory review of these checks. This would include verification of right to work, criminal record, credit history, social media and professional reference checks.

How do I apply?

Are we your next move? Apply via the link below, if there's a match our Talent team will reach out to schedule an initial conversation and talk you through what happens next.

We’re remote-first. We trust people to do great work wherever they are. We hire across the UK and most of our team works remotely full-time. We have a small London office in Moorgate for those who want it, and about a third of the company is close enough to use it occasionally, but there's no expectation to be there. What matters is the work, not where you do it.

Under representation

Our goal is for Griffin to proportionally represent the diversity of the working population in society. We’re working to ensure that Griffin is a supportive, empowering and inclusive environment for every member of our team — whatever your combination of race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, physical ability, nationality, neurodiversity, and religious beliefs. If you’re part of a group that is under-represented in fintech, we’d love to hear from you.

Griffin Bank Ltd request that recruitment agencies do not speculatively submit CVs to any employee or associate of our company unless explicitly asked to do so by a member of our Talent team. Any CVs sent to any member of our team on a speculative basis will not be recognised and we will not accept liability for any fee or commission should we subsequently employ a candidate who applied to us directly or was introduced by an instructed agency that may also have been submitted speculatively by an uninstructed agency.