Analyst- Legal

HCA Healthcare - India; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

HCA Healthcare - India is seeking a Corporate Secretarial Analyst to support legal entity filings, maintain minute books, and track ownership data. The role interfaces with U.S. Corporate Legal, Tax, Finance, and M&A teams across time zones.

The successful candidate will operate under SOPs, templates, and QA processes, ensuring accuracy and audit readiness while contributing to process improvements within the GCN framework.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Law, Legal Studies, Commerce, Business Administration, Corporate Governance, or related field (equivalent experience considered).
• Typically 3+ years of corporate secretarial support or legal operations experience.
• Experience preparing U.S.-based legal/ governance/document packages.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and file formations, qualifications, amendments, mergers, dissolutions, annual reports, renewals, and other entity actions using official forms and templates.
• Maintain digital and physical minute books and governance records with standard naming, indexing, and retention.
• Update entity data in central systems and tracking ownership information.

Skills

Attention to detail

English communication

Process adherence

Time management

Stakeholder collaboration

Document preparation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Law or related field

Tools

Microsoft Word

Excel

Outlook

SharePoint

Job description

Job Description:

General Position Information

Reports directly to (Title):Manager - Legal Matrix reports to (Title):Sr Counsel Direct Reports:Individual contributor; no direct reports Created / Last Revised:- Job Code:-

Position Summary

The Corporate Secretarial Analyst supports HCA Healthcare’s legal operations by executing routine legal entity filings, maintaining official corporate records, drafting related documents, and keeping legal entity information complete, current, and readily accessible. The role supports a large and complex portfolio of legal entities and works closely with U.S. Corporate Legal, Tax, Finance, M&A, registered agents, filing vendors, and other internal partners.

The analyst prepares and processes filings, maintains minute books and electronic entity records, updates entity data, tracks deadlines, supports ownership-structure reporting, and identifies missing or inconsistent information for resolution.

The role is highly process-oriented and involves executing repeatable legal entity governance activities by following detailed standard operating procedures (SOPs), approved templates, decision trees, and quality-control processes. Success requires the ability to recognize patterns across large volumes of legal entities while identifying exceptions that require unique application, escalation, and/or attorney review.

As the Global Capability Network (GCN) function matures, this role is expected to contribute to process optimization, standardization, automation initiatives, and the continuous refinement of operating procedures.

Responsibilities

Legal Entity Filings & Workflow Management

• Prepare and file documentation for formations, qualifications, amendments, mergers, dissolutions, withdrawals, annual reports, renewals, good-standing requests, and other routine entity actions using official forms, approved templates, and instructions, adapting as appropriate.
• Validate legal names, jurisdictions, addresses, registered-agent details, officers, directors, ownership data, effective dates, and required attachments against approved sources and with approved personnel.
• Track requests, due dates, review status, approvals, filing completion, and confirmations; file accepted or stamped documents, receipts, and related evidence in the correct entity record.

Corporate Records & Minute Book

• Create and maintain digital and, where applicable, physical minute books using approved folder structures, naming conventions, document categories, indexing, and retention standards.
• Generate recurring governance documents (including officer and director/manager lists, incumbency certificates, consents, meeting minutes, agency agreements, and similar entity governance records) using approved templates, SOPs, mail merge processes, and other document-generation tools.
• Log, classify, and file formation documents, annual reports, amendments, consents, minutes, ownership records, and filing confirmations in the appropriate entity repository.
• Review records for administrative completeness, prepare exception lists for missing, duplicate, outdated, illegible, or misclassified documents, and complete approved cleanup and remediation activities.
• Support digitization and migration of historical records while preserving document integrity, traceability, and version control; retrieve records for authorized users and route substantive legal questions appropriately.

Entity Data & Ownership Documentation

• Update the central entity-management systems from approved source documents and U.S. instructions, including entity status, ownership, officers, directors, addresses, jurisdictions, and registered-agent information.
• Recognize discrepancies in entity information across approved systems and corporate records and escalate unresolved differences for determination.
• Prepare ownership charts, parent-subsidiary maps, officer lists, routine entity summaries, and similar documents using approved data and established formats.
• Maintain source evidence and an audit trail for data changes and support routine document and data requests from authorized Legal, Tax, Finance, M&A, and other internal teams through the agreed review process.

Quality, Controls & Team Partnership

• Follow documented procedures, checklists, approval protocols, confidentiality, record-retention, and access-control requirements; protect privileged and sensitive information.
• Manage recurring and event-driven requests with disciplined prioritization, timely follow-through, and clear status visibility; escalate risks, dependencies, and deadlines promptly.
• Escalate issues when necessary to seek legal interpretation, judgment, approval, or a decision regarding entity action, and operate within assigned authority.
• Partner across India and U.S. time zones and contribute to SOPs, training, knowledge transfer, quality reviews, and continuous improvement as the GCN function scales.
• Identify recurring process inefficiencies, recommend improvements to SOPs, and participate in technology and automation initiatives that reduce manual effort while maintaining quality and appropriate legal oversight.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Law, Legal Studies, Commerce, Business Administration, Corporate Governance, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
• Typically 3+ years of experience in corporate secretarial support, corporate paralegal support, legal operations, legal entity administration, regulatory or compliance operations, or corporate records management.
• Experience preparing forms or document packages for U.S.-based legal, regulatory, governance, compliance, or similarly controlled enterprises or environments.
• Experience maintaining high-volume, sensitive records in structured electronic repositories and managing recurring deliverables, open items, and deadlines with a high level of accuracy and ownership.

Must Have Skills

• Demonstrated ability to interpret detailed written procedures and consistently execute high-volume work with minimal supervision.
• Experience preparing draft U.S. legal entity forms and supporting documentation for annual reports, qualifications, amendments, good-standing requests, mergers, withdrawals, dissolutions, or other Secretary of State matters.
• Experience maintaining corporate minute books, officer and director records, ownership information, or legal entity organization charts.
• Exceptional attention to detail when working with legal entity names, dates, jurisdictions, addresses, officer and director information, ownership data, and formal records.
• Strong document-preparation and records-management discipline, including consistent naming, indexing, version control, metadata, and audit-trail practices.
• Ability to compare information across forms, source documents, systems, and trackers; identify inconsistencies; document open questions; and escalate issues appropriately.
• Ability to follow detailed instructions, approved templates, SOPs, review protocols, and authority limits in a controlled legal environment, including adhering to applicable confidentiality and security protocols.
• Strong organization, workload management, and written and verbal English communication skills, including the ability to manage multiple deadlines and provide concise status updates across time zones.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and SharePoint, with the judgment to handle confidential and potentially privileged information appropriately.
• Demonstrated aptitude for improving repeatable processes through standardization, documentation, spreadsheets, mail merge, automation tools, or similar technologies.

Nice To Have Skills

• Experience using entity-management platforms, legal document-management systems, workflow tools, or registered-agent portals.
• Experience identifying opportunities to automate repetitive processes and experience with process automation, including basic coding, scripting, programming (eg, Power Automate and similar tools) to improve those processes.
• Paralegal certificate, Company Secretary qualification or coursework, or relevant legal operations, corporate governance, records-management, or compliance training.
• Prior experience in healthcare, a global capability center, shared services, or another highly regulated environment, including records migration, process documentation, quality review, knowledge transfer, or new-function standup.

Licenses, Certifications & Training

• No professional legal license is required, but ICSI-qualified Company Secretary (or progress toward the ICSI Company Secretary qualification) is preferred. Relevant paralegal, corporate secretarial, legal operations, records-management, or compliance training is also preferred.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Behaviors

• Demonstrates ownership, reliability, and disciplined follow-through on filing preparation, records maintenance, data updates, and tracking responsibilities.
• Exercises sound judgment by recognizing when work requires U.S. legal review, approval, interpretation, or decision-making and escalating promptly.
• Maintains high standards for document quality, data integrity, confidentiality, traceability, and audit readiness.
• Works collaboratively and respectfully with attorneys, paralegals, managers, internal customers, vendors, and colleagues across geographies.
• Remains organized and composed when priorities shift, information is incomplete, or multiple deadlines occur simultaneously.
• Applies a service mindset, asks clear questions, communicates risks or missing inputs early, and supports standardization, automation, and continuous improvement within established controls.

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