Secretarial Assistant

Salary/Rate:£30000 - £35000 per annum
Job type:Perm
Location:Leeds, West Yorkshire

About the Role

Sewell Wallis is delighted to be working with a brilliant, well-established West Yorkshire company based in Leeds City Centre, which is currently recruiting for a Secretarial Assistant to join them on a permanent basis.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a large, international company that offers great support and a clear progression path for the successful candidate.

As a Secretarial Assistant, you'll play a key role in supporting the company's portfolio of company secretarial clients, working collaboratively with and supporting the rest of the Company Secretarial team.

What will you be doing?

  • Liaising with clients in a timely, professional and courteous manner.
  • Incorporation of new companies, branches, partnerships.
  • Support on the day-to-day company secretarial requests received from clients and acting as the first point of contact.
  • Maintaining and updating information for all entities using Diligent software.
  • Dealing with general company secretarial paperwork e.g. maintenance of statutory files and registers.
  • Complete Company House filings.
  • Preparation of client Confirmation Statements and Accounts/AGM approval documentation.

What skills are we looking for?

  • Previous experience in a Secretarial role, ideally within professional services.
  • Familiarity with Diligent (formerly Blueprint) or similar software will be advantageous.
  • Dynamic and driven individual with initiative and a 'can-do' attitude.
  • Excellent organisational skills and ability to prioritise to work to deadlines.

What's on offer?

  • Hybrid working (2 days in the office, 3 from home).
  • Fun and supportive working environment.
  • Modern offices based in a city centre location with great transport links.

Apply for this role below, or for more information, contact Becky.

To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.

Job ref: RG/6564Post Date: 28.01.26

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