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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
£26,102
£45,091
£76,055

New workers start around £26,102. Normal pay is £45,091 per year.
Highly experienced workers can earn up to £76,055.

Available jobs

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

5.21%

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

  • Finance

  • Risk Management

  • Project Management

  • Risk Analysis

  • Internal Auditing

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.

  • Management

  • Communication

  • Leadership

  • Operations

  • Detail Oriented

  • Governance

  • Influencing Skills

  • Problem Solving

  • 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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International Relations

University of Portsmouth

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

Tariff points: 104/112

Business Enterprise Top-up

University College Birmingham

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Variable · Birmingham · 18/09/2023

Tariff points: N/A

Business Management

University of Winchester

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

Tariff points: 104/120

Applied Business (Management)

University of Wales Trinity Saint David

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Distance learning (full-time) · Carmarthen · 23/09/2024

Tariff points: 88/88

International Business

Leeds Beckett University

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Leeds · 18/09/2023

Tariff points: 88/88

Media and Cultural Studies

Lancaster University

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Lancaster · 10/2023

Tariff points: 128/128

International Politics

Brunel University London

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Uxbridge · 23/09/2024

Tariff points: N/A

Geography (with Foundation Year)

Teesside University, Middlesbrough

BSc (Hons) · 5 Years · Sandwich including foundation year · Middlesbrough · 18/09/2023

Tariff points: N/A

Social Policy

University of Birmingham

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Birmingham · 30/09/2024

Tariff points: N/A

Policing and Investigations

Liverpool John Moores University

BA (Hons) · 4-6 Years · Part-time · Liverpool · 16/09/2024

Tariff points: 104/120

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