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Professional/Chartered Company Secretaries

Chartered company secretaries and governance professionals ensure companies conform to relevant legal, statutory and financial requirements and monitors standards of corporate governance.

Wages

New workers
AVERAGE
Experienced
£26,105
£45,096
£76,064

New workers start around £26,105. Normal pay is £45,096 per year.
Highly experienced workers can earn up to £76,064.

Available jobs

In the past year there were 4,365 vacancies for this type of job

5.27%

Projected job growth over the next 8 years

Related courses

People work towards these careers by taking these courses at college and uni.

What they do most days?

  • Oversees various administrative functions such as the pensions and insurance cover of employees, health and safety, auditing and estate management.

  • Maintains registers of shareholders and administers share options schemes and payment of dividends.

  • Submits companies information to Companies House and the Stock Exchange.

  • Produces registers of shareholders, annual company reports.

  • Advises on the company's legal responsibilities and relevant regulations and liaises with external regulators, auditors, lawyers and other professionals.

  • Analyses internal processes and systems, recommends and implements procedural and policy changes.

  • Coordinates governances meetings, such as board and annual general meetings, writes minutes and resolutions.

Hard Skills

Hard skills are specific, learnable, measurable, often industry or occupation-specific abilities related to a position.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Compliance Management

  • Auditing

  • Regulatory Compliance

  • Regulatory Affairs

  • Financial Services

  • Risk Management

  • Finance

  • Project Management

  • Risk Analysis

  • Continuous Improvement Process

Soft Skills

Soft skills can be self-taught and usually do not necessitate a certain completed level of education.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Communication

  • Management

  • Leadership

  • Operations

  • Detail Oriented

  • Problem Solving

  • Governance

  • Influencing Skills

  • Planning

  • Interpersonal Communications

How do I get a job like this?

People in these types of job started their career paths after studying courses like the ones below.

Routes to this career

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Architectural Technology

Birmingham City University

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Birmingham · 09/2024

Tariff points: 112/112

Architectural Technology

Nottingham Trent University

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Nottingham · 13/09/2024

Tariff points: 104/112

Architectural Technology

University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI)

BSc (Hons) · 4 Years · Full-time · Inverness · 09/2024

Tariff points: N/A

Interior Architecture

Liverpool John Moores University

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Liverpool · 16/09/2024

Tariff points: 112/128

Architectural Technology

University of Brighton

BSc (Hons) · 4 Years · Sandwich · Brighton · 23/09/2024

Tariff points: 104/120

Architectural Technology

De Montfort University

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Leicester · 09/2024

Tariff points: 112/112

Architectural Engineering

University of Leeds

MEng (Hon) · 4 Years · Full-time · Leeds · 25/09/2024

Tariff points: 144/160

Architecture

University of Portsmouth

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Portsmouth · 23/09/2024

Tariff points: 120/128

Architectural Technology and Design

Bristol, University of the West of England

BSc (Hons) · 4 Years · Sandwich · Bristol · 16/09/2024

Tariff points: 112/112

Architectural Technology

Leeds Beckett University

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Leeds · 16/09/2024

Tariff points: 112/112

Interior Design

Teesside University, Middlesbrough

BA (Hons) · 4 Years · Sandwich · Middlesbrough · 16/09/2024

Tariff points: 96/112

Architectural Technology

University of Bradford

BSc · 3 Years · Full-time · Bradford · 16/09/2024

Tariff points: 112/112

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