Assistant Company Secretary

Location:

Westminster, London, GB, W1U 1QX

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Assistant Company Secretary

Location: London, UK - Hybrid

Compensation: £65,000 - £70,000

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF71736

Shape the future of governance in a world‑leading defence and engineering organisation

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Assistant Company Secretary at Wigmore Street, near London.

The role

As an Assistant Company Secretary, you’ll play a key role in upholding the highest standards of corporate governance across a global FTSE 100 organisation. This is an opportunity to advance your career at the heart of a business that powers national defence, aerospace innovation and critical engineering programmes. Your work will help maintain robust governance structures, support strategic corporate activity, and ensure we continue to operate responsibly and transparently.

Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:

Maintain statutory and other records for all group entities, ensuring timely and accurate submission of statutory filings for UK companies.
Support the ongoing development of best practice corporate governance and keep up to date with changes in company law and regulatory requirements.
Provide company secretarial support on a wide range of corporate projects.
Carry out company secretarial duties for a joint venture, including meeting coordination, agenda distribution and minute taking.
Maintain the Group’s Restricted Dealing List and Insider Lists using Insider Hub.

You’ll join a small, agile and highly collaborative Secretariat team where you’ll report directly to the Head of Secretariat, who in turn reports to the Group General Counsel and Company Secretary. This exposure creates a rare opportunity to develop your expertise, broaden your influence and make a meaningful impact across the organisation.

You’ll work 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, based at Wigmore Street. Hybrid working patterns are available.

Essential experience of the Assistant Company Secretary:

Demonstrable company secretarial experience within a complex organisation.
Experience using Diligent Entities.
Highly organised, process‑driven and detail‑focused, especially in written work.
Strong communication skills and the confidence to engage effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
Ability to build trust, exercise sound judgement and handle sensitive or confidential matters appropriately.

Qualifications for the Assistant Company Secretary:

Educated to degree level.
Associate of the Chartered Governance Institute (or currently studying towards qualification).

Security Clearance

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. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

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 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 UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
‘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

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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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: 03/03/2026

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