Company Secretary

What youll do?

This Key role will serve as a critical connect between the regulatory / statutory bodies and the Company's management and its verticals. Building a compliance culture encompassing awareness, execution of business strategies in line with compliance stipulations, pro-active advice on new product / processes and escalations on actual/ potential non-compliance with respect to applicable compliances, which broadly includes Companies Act, SEBI Act, RBI Act and Labour Laws applicable to the Company and its three Subsidiaries

• Play a central role in the area of identifying the level of compliance risk in each business line, products and processes and issue instructions to operational functionaries / formulate proposals for mitigation of such risk.
• Implement and manage an effective compliance program.
• Develop and review company guidelines on policies / process / products.
• Incorporate a robust mechanism to ensure that regulatory guidelines / instructions are promptly issued / disseminated within the organization, monitor compliance with the regulatory guidelines / instructions and highlight instances of compliance failures.
• Monitor and test compliance by performing sufficient and representative compliance testing and the results of such compliance testing would be reported to the Senior Management.
• Consider ways to measure compliance risk (e.g., by using performance indicators) and use such measurements to enhance compliance risk assessment.
• Create and manage effective action plans in response to audit discoveries and compliance violations.
• Co-ordinate for comprehensive review and reporting on compliance issues and actions at yearly / quarterly / monthly basis as may be decided by the Board / Audit Committee / CEO.
• Must be proficient in e-filings and handling the website of RBI and the Ministry of Corporate Affairs.
• Ensure employees are educated on the latest regulations and processes.
• Assist in conducting of Board, general and other committee meetings.
• Drafting of minutes of Board, general and other committee meetings and follow up actions thereof.
• The candidate will be suitably well versed with the appropriate information security responsibilities for the role and is responsible for adhering to them.

Who you need to be

• Min. 1 to 5 years of related work experience as a Qualified Company Secretary preferably in insurance / finance / fin-tech sector.
• Be a qualified member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI).
• The person will be responsible for assisting and managing the compliance, operations, and secretarial activities.
• Skilled in Legal Compliance, Company Law, Communication, Microsoft Office, and Patent Law.

Job location

• Chennai (work from office)