Corporate Governance PA/Administration Assistant

Exciting opportunity to join Beazley’s Corporate Governance team. We are looking for a Corporate Governance PA/Administration Assistant.

Who We Are

Beazley is a specialist insurance company with over 30 years’ experience helping people, communities and businesses to manage risk all around the world. Our mission is to provide beautifully designed insurance, innovating to give our clients the maximum benefit with minimum hassle.

Our products are wide ranging, from cyber & tech insurance to marine, healthcare, financial institutions and contingency; covering risks such as the weather, film production or protection from deadly weapons.

Our Culture

We employ over 1,500 people globally, hosting a wonderful diversity of cultures, experiences and backgrounds. We are proud of our family-feel culture at Beazley that empowers our staff to work from when and where they want, in an adult environment that’s big on collaboration, diversity of thought & personal accountability.

Our three core values inspire the way we work and how we treat our people & customers – 1) Be bold 2) Strive for better 3) Do the right thing. Upholding these values every day has enabled us to become an innovative and responsive organisation in touch with the changing world around us – our ambitious I&D & Sustainability targets are testament to this.

We encourage internal career progression at Beazley, giving you all the tools you need to drive your own career here, such as iLearn (our own learning & development platform), LinkedIn Learning, our mentorship program and external qualification sponsorship. As a Beazley employee, you also get access to our fantastic array of benefits which include commuting reimbursement, free in-office lunch, six months parental leave and a lifestyle allowance, amongst many others.

Job Summary

To support the Company Secretary in running an effective and efficient administrative and secretarial function for the Beazley group.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:     

Company Secretarial

• Maintain the statutory books and records of various Beazley companies and ensure all statutory returns are completed accurately and in a timely manner
• Maintain the Board and Committee agenda plans
• Coordinate the production of Board and Committee meeting packs on the meeting portal
• Collate Board, Executive and other Committee papers and distribute to relevant parties
• Manage the Board and Committee action logs on a timely basis
• Take the minutes for various Board and Committee meetings
• Ensure Beazley Group Company and Committee minute books are complete and up to date
• Provide company secretarial support for group share plans and Director share dealings
• Support the Group and Deputy Company Secretaries as directed

General

At Beazley we are committed to doing the right thing because it is the right thing to do. It is important that within all your interactions both internally and externally you adhere to this principle through adoption of Beazley's core values and behaviours - PIED and Being Beazley.

• Adopt the Beazley culture of Professionalism, Integrity, Effectiveness and Dynamic that contributes to an internal environment of teamwork and promote a positive brand image and experience to our external customers.
• Comply with Beazley procedures, policies and regulations including the code of conduct.  Undertake training on Beazley policies and procedures as delivered by your line manager, the Talent Management development or assurance teams (compliance, risk, internal audit) either directly, via e-learning or the learning management system.
• Display business ethics that uphold the interests of all our customers.
• Ensure all interactions with customers are focused on delivering a fair outcome, including having the right products for their needs.
• Comply with any specific responsibilities necessary for your role as outlined by your line manager, the Talent Management or assurance teams (compliance, risk, internal audit) and ensure you keep up to date with developments in these areas.  This may include, amongst others, Beazley’s underwriting control standards, Beazley’s claims control standards, other Beazley standards and customer relationship management.
• Carry out additional responsibilities as individually notified, either through your objectives or through the learning management system.  These may include membership of any Beazley committees or working groups.

Education and Qualifications

• Chartered secretarial qualification (either full or part qualified)

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to work at both detailed and summary level, and able to exercise judgement
• Able to communicate effectively with others, both verbally and in writing, ability to listen
• Ability to be adaptable to changing circumstances
• Able to manage uneven workload and respond quickly to ad hoc queries from the business
• Excellent organisational skills
• Able to self manage

Knowledge and Experience

• Experience with interacting at Executive level
• Experience with production of Board and Committee packs

Aptitude and Disposition

• Outcome focused, self-motivated, very flexible, proactive and enthusiastic
• Professional approach to successfully interact with senior management /colleagues/ external suppliers
• Diplomatic
• Flexibility to attend meetings and discussions with the business at short notice
• Able to work as part of a team and use own initiative
• Curious

Competencies

• Adaptable
• Customer focus
• Information seeking
• Team working
• Initiative
• Using expertise
• Integrity
• Organised
• Flexibility