Company Secretary

Job Purpose

To lead the company secretarial and corporate governance functions, ensuring full compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary point of contact on all governance and compliance matters.
• Ensure timely compliance with all requirements under the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA), Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), RBI and other regulatory authorities.
• Organize and manage Board, Committee, and General Meetings, including preparing agendas, circulating notices, recording minutes, and maintaining statutory registers.
• Draft, review, and file all necessary statutory returns, forms, and disclosures.
• Co-ordinate and guide the designated persons and option grantees and ensure smooth ESOP administration including facilitating esop exercise, pre-clearance, disclosures, etc. as applicable
• Analyse and advise on corporate laws, secretarial standards, and adopt best governance practices.
• Liaise with regulatory bodies, external auditors, legal advisors, and stakeholders as required.
• Ensure smooth secretarial audits, due diligence, and corporate restructuring activities (acquisitions, mergers, demergers, share transfers, etc.).

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Member of Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) – mandatory.
• 10+ years of post-qualification experience in company secretarial and corporate governance roles.
• In-depth knowledge of Companies Act, 2013, SEBI regulations including Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements (LODR), Prohibition of Insider Trading (PIT), Takeover Code, FEMA and other corporate laws.
• Strong experience in handling Board and Committee matters, statutory filings, and compliance audits, ESOP management, Overseas investment and foreign subsidiaries
• Team management experience is necessary.

Key Skills

• Excellent knowledge of corporate and company law
• Strong communication, drafting, and presentation skills
• High integrity and confidentiality
• Leadership and team management abilities
• Strong stakeholder and regulatory liaisoning skills