Senior Assistant Company Secretary (12 Month FTC)

🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone.

We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking.

After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well as personal and business bank accounts, we offer joint accounts, accounts for 16-17 year olds, a free kids account and credit cards in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also save, invest and combine their pensions with us. 

With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers!

We’re not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ❤️

Hear from our UK team about what it's like working at Monzo ✨

London/Cardiff/UK Remote | 💰We're open to applicants across different levels of experience  Benefits | Hear from the team 

Monzo is a digital, mobile-only bank, which has its head office in London.  Originally operating through a mobile app and pre-paid debit card, Monzo gained a full banking licence in the UK in 2017, enabling it to offer current accounts. Monzo’s mission is to Make Money work for Everyone whose growth has accelerated rapidly with significant revenue and customer growth across UK consumers and SMEs making it the seventh largest bank in the UK by customer numbers. Customers are trusting increasing amounts of their money to Monzo and the company is committed to maintaining high levels of transparency, prudence and governance, while continuing to innovate its products and services for the benefit of customers.  With a focus on solving customer needs, Monzo is committed to providing financial solutions for customers that are relevant, competitive, user-friendly and transparent, both directly and through a series of carefully selected partners. Monzo is currently looking to accelerate its international expansion plans in the EU and the US.  

⭐Our Board Governance team

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Assistant Company Secretary to cover a period of caregiver leave. This role will report directly to the MBL Company Secretary within Monzo Group’s Company secretarial and governance team. You will act as Secretary to the Board and the Group Remuneration Committee and will have the opportunity to work on a range of corporate secretarial matters in a fast-paced innovative fintech group.

🔑You’ll play a key role by...

• Leading the end-to-end process for the Group and UK Bank Boards and Group Remuneration Committee, including internal and chair agenda preparation, paper requests, preparing chair reports, attendance at meetings, minute-taking, managing conflicts of interest, maintaining the conflict of interest register, communicating action items, and maintaining the action tracker and decision log.
• Assisting with the US Board, including agenda preparation, paper requests, virtual attendance at meetings and minute-taking.
• Assisting the Company Secretary in the continuous review and development of Monzo’s corporate governance framework, policies, and procedures to ensure they align with best practice.
• Providing expert advice and guidance on corporate governance matters to directors, senior management, and colleagues across the business.
• Leading on or provide company secretarial support for a range of ad-hoc projects, which may include corporate transactions, restructurings, or the implementation of new legislation and regulations.

🤩 We’d love to hear from you if…

• You have acted as Secretary to a Board, ideally of a bank, and have experience drafting minutes, preparing agenda and working with Chairs.
• You have the ability to quickly pivot and adjust to new situations, keeping pace with a constantly evolving business environment.
• You are an ICSA-qualified company secretary or equivalent with post-qualification experience in a governance or company secretary role, with financial services experience ideally, but not essential.
• You excel in communication, with a proven ability to write clearly and concisely, and simplify complex information for varied audiences.
• You have strong knowledge of corporate governance principles and applicable financial regulations.
• You are detail-focused with a track record of producing high-quality work.
• You are comfortable operating at all levels of the organisation, including the Board and Executive Committee.

🙌What’s in it for you

💰We're open to candidates across different levels of experience

📍This role can be based in our London office, but we're open to distributed working within the UK (with ad hoc meetings in London) 

⏰We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, and at times that suit you and your team. 

📚£1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences.

🏡We will set you up to work from home; all employees are given Macbooks and for fully remote workers we will provide extra support for your work-from-home setup. 

➕ Plus lots more! Read our full list of benefits.

🌈 The application journey has 3 key steps

• Initial Call
• Role Specific Interview
• Behavioural Interview

This process should take around 2-3 weeks - your schedule is really important to us, so we promise to be as flexible as possible! 

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Equal opportunities for everyone

Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we’re making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, we’re embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone. You can read more in our blog, 2024 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2024 Gender Pay Gap Report.

We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.

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