Management Level

Corporate Governance, ESG, Regulatory

Remote working (UK)

Permanent role

Competitive salary

Excellent benefits

Equiniti is a leading international provider of shareholder, pension, remediation, and credit technology. With over 6000 employees, it supports 37 million people in 120 countries.
EQ’s vision is to be the leading global share registrar, offering complementary services to its client base and our values set the core foundations to our success. We are TRUSTED to deliver on our commitments, COMMERCIAL in building long term value, COLLABORATIVE in our approach and we IMPROVE by continually enhancing our skills and services. There has never been a better time to join EQ..

Business Function

Critical to the EQ UK Shareholder Services business and the success and ongoing growth of the corporate governance advisory business, is the delivery of corporate governance and ESG advisory services to our clients. This is a new role to support our expanding team, with a primary responsibility to provide research and analytical support to the Corporate Governance and Company Secretarial teams.

EQ is a leading provider of progressive proxy solicitation and contemporary corporate governance advisory services. Our team supports clients undergoing events such as AGMs, EGMs and M&As, which demand optimised shareholder approval.

We also provide company secretarial and corporate governance services to quoted and unquoted companies seeking to operate UK governance standards. Our team helps companies establish and maintain best practice corporate governance policies and systems. The team assists Main Market and AIM companies with their ongoing corporate governance requirements, companies planning to float or perform an IPO and complex private groups.

Core Duties/Responsibilities

Corporate Governance and ESG Research

• Support the maintenance of a regular internal ESG, regulatory and corporate governance knowledge framework;

• Provide analysis of best practice on key ESG themes;

• Prepare and support externally facing presentations on ESG and corporate governance developments;

• Support the preparation of regular externally facing ESG and corporate governance updates; and

• Undertake research projects and analysis to support the Governance and ESG Knowledge Manager.

Corporate Governance and ESG Advisory

• Support team members on delivering ESG and corporate governance advisory to clients;

• Prepare informed research, detailed analyses, reports and briefing materials for clients with references to Corporate Governance codes, policies and prevailing best practice;

• Provide qualitative and quantitative risk analyses using in house and third-party systems; and

• Attend client meetings as required.

Skills, Capabilities and Attributes

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following experience, skills and behaviours:

• 1-3 years’ experience working within the advisory/analytical fields, or delivering on corporate governance, executive remuneration or ESG matters, or within investor relations;

• Have demonstrable knowledge and experience of listed Corporate Governance and compliance matters (especially the UK Corporate Governance Code and the UK Companies Act);

• Be proactive in keeping up to date with changes and developments in ESG and corporate governance and related industry matters and best practice requirements;

• Good communication skills; capable of presenting, explaining and discussing research findings internally and externally;

• Strong organisation and analytical skills;

• Have good data management and processing skills;

• A proactive and hands-on attitude alongside the resilience to deliver to tight deadlines;

• A facilitative approach; enjoys operating as part of a team and proactively builds relationships across the business;

• The interpersonal skills associated with working within a professional advisory environment; and

• The personal impact to set the appropriate tone and get to the core of issues quickly.

What We Offer

Save For Your Future - Equiniti Pension Plan; Equiniti matches your pension contributions up to 10%
All Employee Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) – Gives all EQ Colleagues the opportunity to benefit if the current owners successfully sell the company for a profit.
Health and Wellbeing – Employee Assistance Programme: counselling, legal & wellbeing support for colleagues and their households. Life assurance cover at 4x salary with the ability to purchase enhance cover.
Employee discounts – Discounts and cashback at your favourite high street stores through our EQ Wins Platform.
Flexible Benefits – The ability to purchase a wide variety of benefits through our flex plan; gadgets, travel insurance, will writing, holiday trading and more.
Time Off – Typically 28 days holiday + bank holidays. 2 volunteer days to get involved with a charity of your choosing.
Winning together – Equiniti ICON award vouchers; recognising the individuals going above and beyond to help the business succeed.

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks. These consist of 5 year activity & GAP verification, DBS or Access NI, Credit, Sanctions & CIFAS checks.