COMPANY SECRETARIAL PARALEGAL

Aberdeen, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester or Leeds

Role Overview

Vario is a market leading alternative legal services provider within the law firm, Pinsent Masons. It is unique in the legal sector. Vario is a practice group within Pinsent Masons which incorporates; Flexible Services, Consulting and Technology, Legal Project Management and Managed Legal Services (MLS). This role sits within our MLS team.

Our Vario MLS team helps clients to enhance the performance of their in-house teams through efficient resourcing solutions. We use a combination of lawyers, processes and technology to deliver outcomes for clients faster and smarter than traditional law.

Our Company Secretarial team is comprised of 15 colleagues based across the UK and Ireland. We are recruiting a Company Secretarial Paralegal to deliver corporate administration services to external clients of the firm. The successful candidate will play an important role in the growth of the Company Secretarial team and the success of the team.

You will be responsible for:

Supporting a portfolio of clients, with a focus on corporate administration and meeting management
Administration for AGMs, producing agendas, taking minutes, conveying decisions and handling meeting correspondence
Project management of large-scale matters
Creating reports for clients
Keeping up to date with regulatory/statutory changes that might affect the business and clients
Assisting with the preparation of precedents

Please note, this is a 9-month fixed term contract.

Candidate Overview

We are looking for candidates who ideally hold the following skills and experience:

Chartered Company Secretary or LPC/Diploma qualification
Experience of completing company secretarial work either in-house or in a professional services environment
Experience of acting as Company Secretary for a variety of client types

What can we offer you?

Agile working i.e. the opportunity to work from home, subject to diary commitments
25 days annual leave entitlement and the opportunity to purchase or roll over 5 days
Contributory pension of up to 5%
Private healthcare policy for the successful candidate and immediate family
Death in service cover (4 x base salary)
Eligibility to apply for an interest free season ticket loan, an interest free gym membership loan and/or an interest free rental deposit loan
Cycle to work scheme

What happens next?

Once your application has been submitted and reviewed, our Recruitment team will share the outcome with you by email.

We typically hold two interview stages per vacancy providing the opportunity to meet two members of the hiring team at each stage. These are typically conducted virtually; however, we strive to remain flexible depending on the requirements of the role or the candidate.

Our strength lies in our differences.

We are a Disability Confident and top Stonewall employer, a Valuable 500 member, a founding member of the Mindful Business Charter, signatory of the Race at Work Charter and a proud partner of Neurodiversity in Law. We encourage and value different ideas and styles of thinking. It’s with different perspectives that we’ll find solutions to our clients’ most complex challenges. It’s how we’ll deliver outstanding results today, and tomorrow. We want everybody attending an interview to be comfortable and able to fully demonstrate their experience and talents

Our in-house recruiter, Victoria Greaves, would be happy to have an informal chat about this role, provide this job advert or our application form in an alternative format, and/or discuss any reasonable adjustments to be made either during the recruitment process or after offer stage. You can contact Victoria by emailing careers@pinsentmasons.com.

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