Chief Executive Officer of Companies House
About the role
Key Responsibilities
As CEO of Companies House, you will be instrumental in guiding the organisation through the period of significant change, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence, and ultimately helping Companies House to achieve its mission of enhancing corporate transparency and combating economic crime. Your key responsibilities will include:
- Provide strategic leadership and direction to Companies House, ensuring the delivery of its statutory functions, services and transformation programme, with a strong emphasis on the critical importance of people and culture to Companies House’s success.
- Acting as Registrar of Companies for England and Wales. Working in close collaboration with the Registrars for Scotland and Northern Ireland you will be responsible for meeting the Registrars' objectives as set out in the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023.
- Lead the development and implementation of the organisation's strategic plan, aligning it with government priorities and stakeholder expectations.
- Create an environment that supports the delivery of multiple programmes and establishes many of the best practices found in leading edge data and service companies. Fostering a culture of innovation, continuous improvement and customer focus within the organisation.
- Managing the pivot towards a more customer, data and analytics centric ecosystem, and influencing industry ecosystems in creating greater trust in the integrity of the register.
- Foster a collaborative and transparent relationship with non-executive directors and the Department for Business and Trade, ensuring their insights and expertise are effectively integrated into the strategic decision-making process.
- Oversee the management of the organisation, driving increasing levels of performance while ensuring that efficiencies are identified and realised.
- Represent Companies House at the most senior levels with Ministers, government departments, industry bodies, and other stakeholders. Acting as the Accounting Officer of the organisation and appearing before Parliament to account for the organisation's spend and performance.
Essential Criteria
- Significant senior leadership experience, demonstrating a strong commitment to public service values, integrity, and ethical conduct, with expertise in the public sector, regulatory bodies, or a comparable private sector environment.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and manage organisational change and transformation, including complex technical, analytical, and service programmes, ensuring operational resilience and maximising the value of data and insight.
- Strong strategic thinking and planning skills, with the ability to translate vision into actionable plans while ensuring alignment with corporate governance, regulatory frameworks, and compliance requirements.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, demonstrating the ability to build trusting relationships and gain the confidence of a wide range of stakeholders.
- Evidence of strong financial acumen and experience of managing a significant budget to drive efficiencies and resources effectively.
Salary: £98-120,000
This role has a minimum assignment duration of 3 years. This is an expectation only; it is not something which is written into your terms and conditions or indeed which the employing organisation or you are bound by. For more info on assignment durations click here.
Standard Civil Service pay principles apply to existing civil servants: Those applying on promotion will receive either a 10% increase of their current basic salary or the pay band minimum (whichever is greater), for those applying on level transfer, there would be no salary uplift, in line with Civil Service pay rules.
This role is based in Cardiff with a hybrid working model, dependent upon business needs. Relocation costs will not be reimbursed.
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