AVP Legal and Compliance

We are seeking an experienced compliance specialist and legal strategist with a meticulous focus on detail and perfection. If you are passionate about legal-tech and thrive in a fast-paced startup environment, this role is perfect for you. Your responsibilities will include ensuring the organization's compliance with all legal, regulatory, and corporate requirements, creating and maintaining SOPs for regulatory adherence, coordinating with the company secretary and auditor to keep records up to date, developing internal controls, conducting compliance audits, educating team members on compliance policies, data protection, and ethical practices, preparing reports for leadership, regulators, and stakeholders, collaborating with legal, finance, HR, and other teams to integrate compliance into organizational processes, drafting, reviewing, negotiating, and streamlining contracts, strategizing, managing, and protecting intellectual property, managing disputes, liaising with external counsel, and mitigating exposure, developing and implementing company-wide compliance programs, leading governance-related initiatives, promoting ethical business practices, regulatory transparency, and establishing frameworks for accountability, and creating templates, data verification strategies, and error-mitigation procedures. Qualifications required for this role include an LLB/LLM degree along with Company Secretary certification. You should have at least 4 years of experience in compliance, risk management, or legal roles, preferably in a startup or high-growth company. Attention to detail, analytical skills, problem-solving abilities, excellent written and verbal communication skills, independence, proactivity, proficiency in MS Office and G Workspace, a proactive approach to staying updated on laws and regulations, passion, enterprising spirit, resilience, perseverance, a never give up attitude, willingness to learn, take initiative, and go beyond the call of duty are essential skills for this role.,