Assistant Company Secretary and Legal Counsel, PEXA
£80-90k
Online property settlement, tracking and insights
Be an early applicant
Online property settlement, tracking and insights
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
£80-90k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To transform property experiences.
Role
Who you are
- Qualified solicitor in England & Wales with approx. 4 years’ PQE
- Experience working in-house, ideally some of which is gained from a regulated industry such as FinTech
- Experience in corporate and commercial legal matters, including experience in negotiating commercial contracts is essential
- Demonstrated experience in company secretarial duties, including board meeting preparation and statutory compliance
- Experience with data privacy is essential
- Familiarity with governance frameworks applicable to FCA/PRA regulated businesses would be of benefit
- Qualified solicitor admitted to practise English law
- An ICSA or equivalent governance qualification highly desirable
- Excellent drafting, communication, and stakeholder management skills
- Highly organised, self-starter, capable of working independently in a fast-paced, scale-up environment
What the job involves
- We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Legal Counsel with assistant company secretarial level responsibilities to join our entrepreneurial FinTech business operating in the regulated UK financial services sector
- The primary responsibility of the ideal candidate will be to provide hands-on experience in board support and corporate governance but also provide strong commercial legal acumen in negotiating complex contracts
- You will report to the General Counsel and provide legal and governance support across the group, including subsidiaries, and will play a pivotal role in helping the business scale in a compliant, commercially-sound, and operationally effective manner
- Provide comprehensive support to the Company Secretary in preparing for and facilitating board and committee meetings: drafting agendas, circulating board packs (via Diligent or similar platforms), taking accurate minutes, issuing written resolutions recording actions, and following up on all matters on a proactive basis
- Maintain statutory registers (directors, members, PSCs, conflicts etc.)
- Ensure compliance with the Companies Act 2006 and UK Corporate Governance Code
- Prepare and file confirmation statements, director appointments
- Support the Company Secretary in the administration of share-related matters, including share issuances, transfers, and dividend payments and other filings with Companies House
- Monitor corporate governance developments, update relevant stakeholders, and assist with implementing updated governance policies and procedures
- Provide guidance to directors and senior management on directors’ duties and regulatory obligations
- Support shareholder engagement, including AGM/EGM logistics and shareholder communications
- Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements, including SaaS, partnership, supplier, and customer contracts including bank lender panel client contracts and working with conveyancers and suppliers
- Manage relationships with panel clients, lenders, conveyancers, and suppliers across the UK regulated property and lending ecosystem
- Advice on intellectual property matters including trademarks and brand protection
- Ensure compliance with applicable data protection laws (including UK GDPR); provide legal input into privacy notices, internal training, and product development with Tech and Product teams
- Provide strategic legal support to business integrations, commercial initiatives, and procurement activities
- Support legal risk assessments and implement scalable processes to mitigate legal exposure and drive operational excellence
- Liaise with external counsel where specialist advice is needed
Our take
Even as industries embrace the digital revolution, some practices lag behind. For example, property exchange and remortgaging still involve a host of paperwork and back-and-forth between parties. PEXA supplies an eConveyancing platform to automate and simplify these processes, improving accuracy and efficiency while reducing costs.
PEXA was founded in 2010 to bring automation to the Australian property market, before expanding to the UK. The company created its eConveyancing service from scratch, including developing the technology behind it, and can serve property exchange, purchase, development and more; though the PEXA UK division is currently focussed solely on its novel remortgaging solution, as the volume of UK remortgages is expected to rapidly escalate with growing interest rates.
PEXA has benefitted from the pandemic-instigated digital transformation, as well as the similarly fuelled property market boom, which allowed the company to grow rapidly in Australia. Having brought its platform to the much larger UK property market, the company has a chance to demonstrate the value of its digital property settlement solution to a new range of customers, and the potential for massive growth.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Company HQ
Civic Quarter, Leeds, UK
Leadership
Joe Peppe
(CEO)They joined PEXA UK in 2023 as CEO. Prior to this, they were the CEO of tmgroup, Managing Director at EDM Group, Business Development Director at RR Donnelley, and Senior Account Manager at Williams Leaf.
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