What is the opportunity?
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Group Secretariat & Corporate Governance team as an Assistant Company Secretary, supporting the effective governance of the Bank. You will work closely with the Deputy Group Company Secretary to deliver trusted advice and high quality secretariat support to Board Committees. This role offers strong exposure to senior stakeholders and a chance to deepen your experience in corporate governance within a complex, regulated environment while contributing to meaningful, organisation-wide decision-making.
In this role, you will:
- Act as Secretary to key Board Committees, planning and delivering agendas, coordinating papers, and producing clear, decision-focused minutes
- Manage forward schedules and action logs, ensuring decisions are followed through and delivered in line with governance requirements
- Lead Committee effectiveness evaluations, coordinating inputs and identifying actions to strengthen performance
- Support the ongoing development of the Group's governance framework, working with stakeholders to improve clarity, consistency and effectiveness
- Enable strong communication between Boards, Committees and senior leadership, ensuring timely and well-judged information flow
What will make you stand out?
You bring experience operating at Board or Executive level, with confidence, sound judgement and the ability to provide constructive challenge. You are comfortable navigating complex governance environments and can interpret regulatory requirements in a practical way.
You communicate clearly and build trusted relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, including senior leaders and Non-Executive Directors. You are highly organised and can manage competing priorities while maintaining attention to detail and accuracy.
You also have strong analytical skills, enabling you to distil complex discussions into clear, concise outputs that support effective decision-making. A proactive and thoughtful approach will help you identify opportunities to improve governance processes and contribute to wider team goals.
Essential qualifications
Relevant third level qualification, ideally, ICSA or relevant legal or business qualification.
More about the team
The Group Secretariat & Corporate Governance team provides company secretarial, compliance and advisory services across the Bank. The team plays a central role in enabling effective governance through the Board of Directors, Board Committees and Subsidiary Boards.
This is a hybrid role, based primarily at Baggot Plaza, Dublin 4. We typically ask colleagues to spend a minimum of 8 days per month working in-person to support collaboration and connection. Specific arrangements will be confirmed by your recruiter to ensure they meet the needs of the role and team.
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You will join a collaborative and supportive team that values professionalism, shared learning and continuous improvement, with opportunities to build your expertise and contribute to important governance outcomes.
Why work with us
The Bank of Ireland company culture prioritises work life balance with a commitment to hybrid working, along with 25 days annual leave and excellent pension contributions. Flexible working options are available to help you balance your personal and professional life.
Family can mean different things to different people; we offer 6 months paid maternity leave, an innovative fertility and surrogacy policy along with working parent and carer supports.
Your health and wellbeing is important to us; we offer a substantial health insurance contribution, Employee Assistance Programme, WebDoctor and financial wellbeing coaches.
We also encourage and support colleagues to pursue educational and professional qualifications to grow and enhance your career.
We're on a continuous journey to build an inclusive and diverse workplace. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, lived experience, abilities and perspectives. We provide reasonable accommodations at every stage of our recruitment process for disabilities, neurodivergence or medical conditions. If you require an accommodation please complete this form and one of our recruitment team members will be in touch via email.
Any information provided will be treated as confidential within the recruitment team and used only for the purpose of determining and providing appropriate accommodations for the application and recruitment process.
Where Agency assistance is required Bank of Ireland Recruitment Team will engage directly with suppliers. Unsolicited CVs / profiles supplied to Bank of Ireland by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this role.
