Hello, we’re Starling. We built a new kind of bank because we knew technology had the power to help people save, spend and manage their money in a new and transformative way. We’re a fully licensed UK bank with the culture and spirit of a fast-moving, disruptive tech company. We’re a bank, but better: fairer, easier to use and designed to demystify money for everyone. We employ more than 3,000 people across our London, Southampton, Cardiff and Manchester offices.
An exciting opportunity for an early Company Secretarial professional to take a step into the world of Financial Services. The Committee Manager is responsible for managing the effective operation of executive risk committees, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and best practice. This role involves supporting senior stakeholders, maintaining high standards of corporate governance including minute taking, ensuring committees are well organised, efficient, and aligned with the Bank’s strategic objectives.
Key ResponsibilitiesCommittee Management
- Schedule and manage committee meetings, ensuring alignment with the Bank’s governance calendar.
- Support agenda drafting in collaboration with committee chairs and Risk Reporting, ensuring strategic priorities and regulatory requirements are addressed.
- Support the preparation of high quality committee papers, ensuring quality assurance.
- Act as a trusted advisor to the committee chairs and committee members on governance procedures and regulatory obligations.
- Take accurate, concise, and confidential minutes, capturing key discussions, decisions, and action points.
- Co-ordinate action status updates in a timely manner.
- Lead periodic reviews of committee terms of reference, ensuring they maintain alignment with business and regulatory needs.
Governance and Compliance
- Monitor committee compliance with regulatory and statutory requirements (e.g., PRA, FCA).
- Ensure adherence to the Bank’s governance framework and policies.
- Support periodic reviews of committee effectiveness, contributing to improvement initiatives.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Liaise with senior executives and external advisors to facilitate governance activities.
- Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure smooth communication and collaboration.
- Provide guidance and training on governance processes to committee members and stakeholders, as required.
Documentation and Reporting
- Maintain accurate records of committee activities, including action and decision logs, and other supporting documents.
- Ensure secure and effective document management in line with the Bank’s data governance policies.
Experience
- Experience in governance, company secretariat, or committee management.
- Strong knowledge of UK corporate governance frameworks.
- Experience working with senior stakeholders and executives.
- Experience within UK financial services institution, ideally banking (preferred, not required).
Skills and Competencies
- Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including minute-taking and drafting.
- Attention to detail, with a commitment to excellence and maintaining high standards of accuracy.
- Sound judgement and discretion in handling sensitive and confidential information.
Key Behaviours
- Proactive and solution-oriented, with a focus on continuous improvement.
- Collaborative, able to build strong relationships across diverse teams.
- Resilient and adaptable to changing priorities and regulatory environments.
Qualifications
- Degree in Business, Law, or a related field (preferred).
- Studying for, or interest in attaining, a relevant professional qualification (e.g. Chartered Governance Qualifying Programme or equivalent).
- 25 days holiday (plus take your public holiday allowance whenever works best for you)
- An extra day’s holiday for your birthday
- Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off
- 16 hours paid volunteering time a year
- Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme
- Life insurance at 4x your salary
- Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care. Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton
- Generous family-friendly policies
- Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks
- Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work and Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships
About Us
You may be put off applying for a role because you don't tick every box. Forget that! While we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we're always open to discussion. So, if you're excited about working with us, but aren’t sure if you're 100% there yet, get in touch anyway.
We’re on a mission to radically reshape banking – and that starts with our brilliant team. Whatever came before, we’re proud to bring together people of all backgrounds and experiences who love working together to solve problems.
Starling Bank is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re proud of our ongoing efforts to foster diversity & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment at Starling Bank are considered without regard to race, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
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What We Do
Hello, we’re Starling. Banking was broken – so we decided to fix it. The vision? Fast technology, fair service and honest values. All at the tap of a phone, all the time. We built Britain’s first digital bank. One hard-won banking licence later, we set about giving people a new way to spend, save and manage their money (and take better care of the planet, too). We’re changing banking for good. Back then, we were obsessed with unravelling the knotty world of finance and solving people’s problems rather than selling them stuff. We still are. Since then, we’ve grown. A lot. Over three million accounts (and four account types!). A team of thousands. Headquartered in London with offices in Cardiff, Dublin, Manchester and Southampton. Five years voted Which? Recommended Provider and Britain's Best Banking Brand. Still zero branches. Our culture is open, inclusive and focused on solving real customer problems, with an emphasis on doing the right thing, even when it’s not always the easy thing. From our approach to working together and sustainability to how we build our products, our decisions need to make the world – and Starling – a better place to be. Everyone at Starling is essential to our mission, which is really quite simple: to solve our customer’s problems – and build the best bank in the world! And now we're providing Starling to other banks, via a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) proposition through our subsidiary Engine, using the proprietary technology platform that it uses to power our own bank.
