Corporate Counsel II

Sinch; Dadri; Hybrid; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Sinch India invites applications for an individual contributor role as a Company Secretary reporting to the India legal head. The incumbent will independently handle secretarial matters in a dynamic environment.

You should have hands-on experience in corporate secretarial functions, regulatory filings, and governance processes, with a preference for strong integrity and attention to detail. Hybrid work model (3 days WFO) in Noida.

Qualifications

• Membership with the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI).
• Minimum 5 years of relevant demonstrable experience with a multinational.
• Strong subject-matter knowledge in corporate governance and law.
• Comfortable with hybrid working model (3 days WFO) at Sinch India HO - Sec, Noida.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for compliance with secretarial standards and applicable law; specifically, the Companies Act and the Foreign Exchange Management Act.
• Develop and oversee systems that ensure compliance with applicable law.
• Stay updated on regulatory changes and ensure policies are updated and approved.
• Coordinate with regulators and external professionals involved in corporate governance, such as auditors.
• Convene and administer board and shareholders meetings; prepare agendas, minutes, and resolutions; maintain statutory books.
• Undertake annual filings and event-driven filings with regulators such as MCA and RBI; coordinate with law enforcement as needed.

Skills

English communication

Attention to detail

Independent work

Multi-priority management

Education

ICSI Membership

Job description

Sinch is a global leader in the growing market for Communication Platforms as a Service (CPaaS) and mobile customer engagement. We are specialists in allowing businesses to reach everyone on the planet, in seconds or less, through mobile messaging, email, voice, and video.

We reach every phone on earth. From the lifechanging to the time-saving, we're helping our customers to interact with people like never before. For you, that means working in an environment that offers an incredible variety of exciting challenges, and the chance to impact how billions of people engage with their favorite brands. The dream of personalizing content to all 15 billion phones on the planet is no fairy tale!

More than 150,000 businesses, including many of the world’s largest companies and mobile operators, use Sinch’s advanced technology platform to engage with their customers. Moreover, Sinch has been profitable and fast-growing since its foundation. Sinch's core values are Make it Happen, Dream Big, Keep it Simple and Win Together. These values describe how our global organization works and inspire every of our more than 5,000 employees across 60 different countries.

LegalatSinch India

Legal team is an important part of the business helping Sinch India achieve its goals. The team is responsible for providing accurate and risk mitigating advice aligned with Sinch’s best interests and guided by Sinch’s ethical standards of doing business. The team responds to high priority topics and works on challenging legal issues in a fast-paced environment.

Job Role

ThisisanindividualcontributorpositionandwillreporttotheIndialegalhead.Tobesuccessfulinthis role,youshouldhave hands on experience in independently handling company secretarial matters and you should be comfortable working in adynamic environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Be responsible for compliance with secretarial standards and applicable law; specifically, the Companies Act and the Foreign Exchange Management Ac
• Develop and oversee systems that ensure compliance with applicable law.
• Be abreast with regulatory and/or statutory changes that may affect the company and ensure that corresponding policies are updated and are approved.

Corporate Governance

• Implement processes and systems to ensure good corporate governance.
• Proactively provide strategic advice including advice on corporate governance matters.
• Liaise with regulators and communicate with external professionals involved in corporate governance, such as auditors.

Board Meetings and Shareholders Meetings

• Convene and provide administration for board meetings and shareholders meetings.
• Prepare agendas, take minutes, prepare resolutions, convey decisions and handle meeting correspondence.
• Maintain statutory books, including statutory registers and records.
• Undertake annual filings and event driven filings and returns with regulators such as, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Reserve Bank of India.
• CoordinatewithlawenforcementauthoritiesandinvestigationagenciesaspartofSinchIndia’s VMN fraud handling efforts.

QualifyingCriteria

• Membership with the Institute of Company Secretaries of India.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant demonstrable experience with multinational.
• Strongsubjectmatterknowledge.
• Comfortable to work in a hybrid working model (3 days WFO) at Sinch India HO - Sec, 132, Noida.

Skills

• StrongEnglishwrittenandverbalcommunicationskills.
• Impeccableintegrity-ethicalandhonestinallrespects.
• Self-starterhavingattentiontodetailandhighlevelsofaccuracy.
• Beabletoworkindependentlyandmanagemultipleprioritiesandprojectswithfirmdeadlines.

Being you at Sinch:

We're a worldwide group of people, committed to diversity. We're working to offer an increasingly inclusive workplace wherever you are. No matter who you are, you'll be able to explore new career and growth options - sharing your voice, building your path and making it happen with us.

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will be considered to join our team regardless of race, colour, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, and more.

Your life at Sinch:

Being a Sincher is all about learning and being in pursuit of new challenges. Working in the offices, at home, or in a hybrid model, that means celebrating change and the unknown, rolling up your sleeves and seeing what impact you can have on the world. The only way is up, and you’ll be reaching for the opportunities that match where you want to take your career. It’s closer than you think.