Interim Company Secretary

At Oxford Instruments, we enable the world's leading industrial companies and scientific research communities to image, analyse and manipulate materials down to the atomic and molecular level. With a sixty-year history, and fourteen Queen's Awards for Enterprise, our world-class products and technologies are helping our customers to address the greatest challenges of the 21st century.

Are you an experienced Company Secretary looking for an exciting opportunity at a FTSE250 listed company? Join Oxford Instruments plc as Interim Company Secretary (12 Month fixed term contract) and play a key role in delivering corporate governance and company secretarial services across the Group. Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, you will ensure compliance with regulatory obligations and contribute to the success of our business.

Responsibilities:

• Lead on Board and Committee matters.
• Ensure compliance with Listing Rules, Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules and Corporate Governance Code.
• Deliver the Governance disclosures in the Annual Report (including the Directors' Remuneration Report).
• Work with the Assistant Company Secretary to deliver the Annual General Meeting.
• Manage administration of the company's employee share incentive schemes.
• Responsible for subsidiary entities' governance and compliance.
• Assist with ad hoc projects.

Requirements:

• CGI qualified with significant company secretarial experience, ideally in a listed company environment.
• Strong understanding of regulatory and corporate governance frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of employee share schemes and executive remuneration matters.
• Familiarity with Diligent entities and Board Intelligence functionality.

Join our team at Oxford Instruments plc and make a significant impact on our corporate governance and compliance. Apply now for this interim position and take your career to the next level!

At Oxford Instruments, we are proud of the environment that we have created. We hope that by joining us, you will discover why people stay with our business for so long and have such a significant impact on our globally growing success story.

This role is a hybrid role with the main location being Tubney Woods, Abingdon. However, we can also consider other UK-based offices, including Bristol and High Wycombe. We work from 8:00 am until 4:30 pm Monday to Thursday and finish at 1:00 pm on Fridays, allowing you to start your weekend early.

Other Benefits:

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Private health care
• Generous pension
• Car scheme
• Cycle to work
• Income protection
• Employee Discounts
• Life assurance

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability.

Note to recruitment agencies: Oxford Instruments operates a Preferred Supplier List, and we do not accept unsolicited agency CVs. Please do not forward candidate details in response to this advert, or to any Oxford Instruments employees or other company locations. Oxford Instruments is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited CVs.