Hybrid Corporate Compliance Officer

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About the role

  • The role will entail providing global legal assistance related to Cognite’s overall activities with the main focus on:
  • India & MENA Entity Secretarial: Manage all corporate secretarial requirements (filings, board minutes, registers) for Cognite's India and MENA entities.
  • Regional Compliance: Ensure adherence to all local regulatory and legal requirements in India and MENA.
  • Global Legal Support: Provide general legal and compliance assistance to all business departments globally.
  • Policy & Compliance Safeguard: Implement and enforce internal policies and safeguard compliance with all outside regulatory and legal obligations.
  • Manage all corporate secretarial obligations for Cognite's India entity, including annual filings, board resolutions, meeting minutes, statutory registers, and government reporting.
  • Act as the primary point of contact for local regulatory bodies and external corporate services providers in India.
  • Manage and coordinate all labour and employment law filings, RBI FEMA filings etc.
  • Working with legal tech tools to automate the legal department
  • Assist with the implementation and enforcement of internal company policies, company wide compliance and ethics training
  • Customer, partner and vendor background checks and compliance due diligence
  • Support the India and MENA office and the global legal team with ad-hoc legal tasks
  • Ad-hoc support of other functions such as finance, corporate development and P&O.

Requirements

  • Law degree (India Qualified) and Qualified Company Secretary (under ICSI)
  • Minimum 3 years experience working as Company Secretary in an Indian Company.
  • Minimum 3 years relevant legal experience (in-house legal department, law firm or relevant authorities)
  • Practical and commercial mindset
  • Excellent communication skills, both oral and written and fluent in English
  • Ability to work independently and efficiently, often with tight deadlines, with understanding of the legal in-house role
  • Positive attitude
  • Eager to learn and explore new areas of law and processes.
  • Nice to have: Experience with GDPR, SOC2, ISO 27001 and EU data protection and privacy regulations
  • Experience working with compliance and practices in the MENA region is preferred.

Benefits

  • Join an organization of 70 different nationalities 🌐 with Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) in focus 🤝
  • A highly modern and fun working environment with sublime culture across the organization
  • Flat structure with direct access to decision-makers, with minimal amount of bureaucracy
  • Opportunity to work with and learn from some of the best people on some of the most ambitious projects found anywhere, across industries.
  • Hybrid work environment globally
  • Health insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Professional development opportunities

Job title

Corporate Compliance Officer

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Professional Certificate

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