Group Company Secretary

Responsibilities:

Own and lead the Group Company Secretarial function across Titan:

• Maintain the clear and proportionate Group governance framework across the parent company, regulated entities and other subsidiaries.
• Act as a trusted adviser to Board Chairs, directors and senior executives on corporate governance, directors' duties, Board effectiveness and decision-making.
• Promote high and consistent governance standards while ensuring appropriate recognition of each subsidiary Board's individual responsibilities.
• Maintain appropriate governance policies, frameworks, authorities and terms of reference across the Group.
• Keep governance arrangements under review as Titan's organisational and legal entity structure evolves.
• Work closely with Group Compliance, Risk, Legal, Finance and other control functions to ensure that governance arrangements remain effective and joined-up.

Titan's existing company secretarial remit expressly includes advising Group Boards on governance and legal/regulatory requirements and providing legal, financial and strategic advice to Boards and senior management.

Board and Committee Governance

• Oversee the effective operation of Group and subsidiary Boards and Board Committees.
• Ensure Board and Committee calendars, agendas, forward plans and governance processes support effective oversight and decision-making.
• Set and maintain standards for Board and Committee papers, minutes, action tracking and maintenance of corporate records.
• Work with Chairs and executives to ensure matters are escalated to the appropriate governance forum and that responsibilities between Group and subsidiary Boards are clear.
• Provide advice to directors before, during and following Board meetings.
• Support Board and Committee effectiveness reviews and implementation of resulting actions.
• Maintain an effective director induction, training and ongoing development framework.

Leadership of the Group Company Secretarial Team

• Lead, manage and develop Company Secretarial colleagues located within different businesses and entities across Titan.
• Create a genuine Group Company Secretarial function, with consistent standards, ways of working, quality expectations and appropriate oversight.
• Establish clear roles, responsibilities and accountabilities across central and entity-level Company Secretarial resources.
• Provide professional leadership, coaching and technical support to the wider team.
• Ensure appropriate allocation of resources across legal entities and governance forums.
• Build appropriate succession planning and resilience within the function.
• Drive greater consistency and efficiency without unnecessarily centralising activities that are better performed within individual businesses.

M&A, Consolidation and Integration

• Provide Company Secretarial and governance leadership in connection with acquisitions, disposals, integrations and corporate restructuring.
• Assess the governance arrangements of acquired businesses and oversee their transition into Titan's Group governance framework.
• Establish appropriate governance structures for newly acquired or reorganised entities.
• Work with Legal, Compliance, Risk, Finance and M&A teams to ensure governance considerations are identified and addressed throughout acquisition and integration activity.
• Oversee changes to legal entity structures, directors, committees, delegated authorities and constitutional documentation resulting from acquisitions or reorganisations.
• Identify duplication, governance gaps and unnecessary complexity across acquired structures and recommend pragmatic solutions.
• Ensure that rapid commercial growth does not outpace the Group's governance infrastructure.

Statutory and Legal Entity Governance

• Maintain oversight of statutory compliance across the Group's legal entities.
• Ensure accurate and timely corporate filings and maintenance of statutory books and registers.
• Maintain effective oversight of Companies House and other relevant corporate filing requirements.
• Oversee entity incorporations, dissolutions, reorganisations and changes to directors and officers.
• Maintain appropriate Group records of legal entities, directors, shareholders and governance structures.
• Ensure corporate approvals and authorities are appropriately documented.
• Maintain effective controls over delegated authorities, powers of attorney and execution authorities where
• these sit within the Company Secretarial remit.

Regulatory Governance

Work closely with the Group Compliance and Risk functions to ensure governance arrangements support the requirements applicable to Titan's regulated businesses.

Understand the interaction between corporate governance, regulated entity governance and the responsibilities of senior management.

Support appropriate governance arrangements around regulatory permissions, senior management responsibilities and significant corporate transactions.

Ensure relevant regulatory developments are understood by Boards and appropriately reflected within governance arrangements.

Support the governance aspects of regulatory engagement where Company Secretarial input is required.

Critical Skills and Experience required:

Essential:
Substantial Company Secretarial and corporate governance experience gained within UK financial services.

Previous senior-level experience within a wealth management, financial planning, investment management or comparable financial-services consolidator.

Demonstrable experience of working within a business that has grown through multiple acquisitions and subsequent integration.

Previous responsibility for managing and developing a Company Secretarial team, ideally where team members are distributed across different businesses, entities or locations.

Significant experience supporting subsidiary and Group Boards within a complex corporate structure.

Strong practical understanding of UK company law, corporate governance and directors' duties.

Experience of regulated financial-services governance and working alongside Compliance, Risk and Legal functions.

Strong understanding of the respective roles of Group Boards, regulated entity Boards and Board Committees.

Experience establishing or improving governance frameworks across multiple legal entities.

Strong Board and executive-level stakeholder management skills.

Experience advising Chairs, executive and non-executive directors.

Excellent judgement, with the confidence to challenge senior stakeholders constructively where governance standards require it.

Demonstrates strong interest and experience in Demonstrates a strong interest in emerging technologies, including AI, and a proven ability to identify practical opportunities to improve governance processes.

Comfortable challenging traditional ways of working and implementing technology-enabled solutions that enhance board effectiveness, reduce manual effort and improve the quality, consistency and accessibility of governance information.

 

Highly Desirable:

Experience participating in the governance workstream of acquisitions, integrations and legal entity rationalisation.
Experience working across financial planning, wealth management, investment management and/or asset management businesses.
Experience improving governance technology, Board portals, entity-management systems and Company Secretarial processes.

Qualifications (Essential & Desirable):

Essential:

ICSA qualified with 7 to 10 years + post qualification experience