Adviser - Company Secretarial (FTC until Sep 2025)

An opportunity has arisen to join the Company Secretarial team as an Adviser. The role will suit someone with previous company secretarial experience or someone with more general company accounts knowledge who wants to specialise in company secretarial work and is keen to learn.

Who we are looking for:

This is an ideal opportunity for someone to work as part of the company secretarial team providing an excellent service to the firms' clients in accordance with the firm's values, procedures, prevailing legislation and good professional practice so as to meet or exceed clients' expectations and needs.

This role is a fixed term contract until September 2025.

The hours are part time, negotiable between 14.5 and 16 hours per week, which can be over 2, 3 or 4 days.

This is a hybrid role, a minimum of 1 day a week will need to be spent working from the office with your team, ideally a Monday.

What the role involves:

• Filing accounts at Companies House



• Company formation and strike off



• Appointment and removal of company officers



• Preparing confirmation statements, PSC register, share certificates, dividend vouchers and other company secretarial documents and resolutions



• Preparation of stock transfer forms and documentation for share re-organisations and re-designations



• Other ad hoc administration tasks to support the company secretarial team


Your development

We also provide a complementary range of learning opportunities to ensure that you maximise your potential with professional, technical and soft skills development.

We have 6 monthly performance review conversations to ensure your development is on track, with optional monthly 1-2-1s. We also encourage you to get involved in wider firm initiatives and have your say on how we can progress on our journey towards being the best North West firm of finance professionals.

As well as having experience within a professional services environment, we'd like you to be:


• A team player looking to progress their career through practical experience



• Able to manage conflicting priorities and consistently deliver high quality work to deadlines



• An individual with strong initiative and project management skills (taking control and running with tasks through to completion)



• Able to multi-task and prioritise workload with minimal supervision



• Well organised with excellent attention to detail.



• Confident and able to deal with people at all levels to build strong internal relationships


Our ideal candidate will:


• Ideally have experience of company secretarial work, but we will also consider candidates with more general experience and a willingness to learn.



• Be familiar with the use of recognised software applications (Word, Excel, Outlook).



• Have excellent verbal and written communication skills as there will be contact with clients at all levels.



• Have good organisational skills as well as the ability to take initiative
  
  About PM+M


We are a vibrant, dynamic and award-winning firm of Chartered Accountants and business advisers, with offices in Blackburn and Bury and a hub in Burnley, covering East Lancashire, Greater Manchester and beyond. Our vision is to be the best North West firm of finance professionals and we want great people to join our team and help us do that.

We are proud of our inclusivity and diversity, encouraging people to be the best they can be and to be involved, no matter their level of experience or role. We are a member of Praxity, the 7th largest global accountancy association and the largest association of independent firms. Being part of Praxity allows us to have strong international connections and a great source of secondment opportunities.

Joining the PM+M team will help take your career to the next level. You will be joining a values led organisation with a unique culture where you will be encouraged to take ownership of your own development and achieve your career goals. We understand that we thrive when we help our clients succeed and that is our core purpose. We also understand that, to do that, our people need to succeed and be happy and fulfilled.

Everyone is different and has different hopes and dreams and different personal circumstances at different stages of their lives. Our task is to listen to you, understand what you want to achieve next and then work with you to help you get there. Our working practices are really flexible, based on high degrees of trust and empowerment and can flex to suit your circumstances and needs.

In addition to competitive salaries, here's what our market leading benefits packages look like:


• 23.5 days' holiday per annum + bank holidays



• Office closedown over Winter Break



• Flexible Easter break to account for other religious festivals



• on site free parking



• employer pension contribution of 8%,



• death in service life cover of 4 x salary



• income protection scheme



• flexi time/agreed overtime



• flexible benefits (salary sacrifice) scheme including a range of benefits such as private medical insurance, extra holidays, electric car scheme etc



• flexible/hybrid working



• full technical and soft skills training and support



• recruitment incentive scheme



• cycle to work scheme



• employee well-being portal



• access to the WeCare app that offers health, well-being, financial and legal support



• dress for your day policy and dress down Fridays



• paid sick leave



• extensive learning & development opportunities and study support



• Firm wide success bonus based on the achievement of certain financial metric(s).