Company Secretary and Compliance Officer providing global legal assistance focusing on India and MENA. Managing corporate compliance and secretarial duties within a hybrid working environment.
Responsibilities
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.
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