Manager Secretarial & Compliance

Responsibilities:

• Secretarial & Corporate Governance: Ensure compliance with the provisions of the Companies Act, Applicable Rules, Secretarial Standards, and other corporate laws. Organize and manage Board Meetings, Committee Meetings, and General Meetings. Prepare agendas, notices, board papers, minutes, and resolutions. Maintain all statutory registers, records, and corporate documents.
• Corporate Compliance: Develop, implement, and monitor the organization's compliance framework. Prepare and maintain a comprehensive compliance calendar covering all applicable laws. Ensure timely compliance with central, state, and local regulatory requirements. Conduct periodic compliance reviews and internal compliance audits.
• Regulatory Filings: Ensure timely filing of Annual Return, Financial Statements, DIR, PAS, MGT, SH and other MCA forms, RBI, FEMA, and other regulatory filings, where applicable. Coordinate with regulators for approvals, inspections, and clarifications.
• Policy Management: Draft, review, and update corporate governance policies. Develop and maintain statutory and regulatory compliance policies. Ensure periodic review and Board approval of policies. Drive policy awareness across the organization.
• Risk & Compliance Monitoring: Identify compliance risks and recommend mitigation measures. Monitor implementation of corrective and preventive actions. Support enterprise risk management initiatives from a regulatory compliance perspective.
• Stakeholder Management: Liaise with MCA, SEBI, Depositories. Statutory Auditors, Secretarial Auditors, Internal Auditors, Legal Advisors & Regulatory Authorities. Coordinate with internal departments to ensure timely compliance.
• International Secretarial & Compliance Support: Coordinate Secretarial & Compliance matters across the Group's operations in Switzerland, India, Singapore, the UAE, the Philippines, China and other jurisdictions, ensuring consistent legal standards and effective Secretarial & Compliance support worldwide.

Experience and Qualification:

• Qualified Company Secretary (ICSI Member) with a degree in Law (LL.B. preferred) and 57 years of post-qualification experience in corporate secretarial and legal compliance functions.
• Strong knowledge of the Companies Act, 2013, Secretarial Standards, FEMA, and corporate governance practices.
• Exposure to SEBI regulations and hands on with listed company compliance,.
• Experience in handling Board and Committee meetings and regulatory filings.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.