Compliance Executive

Job Title:

Compliance Executive / Manager

Location: Ahmedabad / Mumbai (Hybrid)
Reporting To: Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
Industry: Media-Tech / Digital Media / Start-up

Role Overview:

In this role you will be responsible for ensuring that the company and its subsidiaries maintain robust secretarial, corporate governance, statutory, and regulatory compliance frameworks. You’ll work across business, legal, secretarial and finance teams to ensure transparency, timely filings, correct documentation and risk mitigation. You’ll also support scaling of processes as the company grows across geographies and regulatory environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Handle secretarial and statutory filings under the Indian Companies Act, rules and allied regulations — e.g., AOC-4, MGT-7, PAS-3, DIR-3 KYC, etc.
• Maintain and update cap tables, shareholder registers, ESOP registers, fixed assets registers, trademark records and other statutory registers.
• Review, draft, negotiate (where required) and maintain key agreements including property leases, vendor contracts, investor agreements, MoUs, legal notices and other business-contracts.
• Coordinate with external legal counsel on litigation matters, dispute resolution, statutory/regulatory filings and representation as required.
• Ensure compliance across the parent company and any foreign subsidiaries—this includes RBI / FEMA compliance, FC-GPR/FLA filings, foreign entity filings, etc.
• Build and maintain structured data-rooms, documentation trackers, policy registers (e.g., vendor policy, ESOP policy, IT/privacy policy) and ensure version control and audit readiness.
• Liaise with the Company Secretary (if any), statutory auditors, internal auditors and external advisors to support audit, secretarial, compliance and governance matters.
• Develop and manage a compliance calendar/tracker to ensure no deadline is missed; escalate potential gaps proactively.
• Provide regular reporting (monthly/quarterly) to the CFO and senior leadership on compliance status, key issues, remediation actions and governance risks.
• Advise business units on compliance best practices, emerging regulatory changes and help embed a culture of governance in the start-up’s growth journey.

Qualifications & Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Law, Commerce, Finance or equivalent. A Company Secretary (CS) qualification or part‐qualifications would be a major plus.
• 3 to 6 years of relevant experience—preferably in a start-up, digital media, technology or regulated corporate-governance environment.
• Strong working knowledge of Indian corporate law (Companies Act & rules), secretarial filings, ROC processes, FEMA / RBI compliance, etc.
• Comfortable drafting and reviewing commercial contracts and legal documents—ability to assess commercial risk and guide business accordingly.
• Excellent organisational, documentation and process-oriented skills. High attention to detail.
• Good communication skills (both written & verbal) and ability to work collaboratively cross-functionally (finance, legal, business, external advisors).

About News Reach:

News Reach is a fast-growing media-tech company and PR-tech platform that empowers brands, publishers and content creators across India’s diverse media landscape. Their operations span press release distribution, content syndication, podcast services and building a scalable local-/regional-news ecosystem. You’ll join a dynamic start-up environment, helping scale the business with strong governance, compliance and secretarial processes.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: ₹30,000.00 - ₹40,000.00 per month

Benefits:

• Paid time off
• Provident Fund

Experience:

• Compliance management: 3 years (Required)

Location:

• Makarba, Ahmedabad, Gujarat (Preferred)

Work Location: In person