Senior Compliance Manager

Home Credit India; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 2,400,000 - 3,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Home Credit India is seeking a senior leader to drive legal and compliance functions, ensuring adherence to applicable laws and corporate governance. You will advise on product documentation, manage contracts, and lead regulatory liaison with authorities.

The role requires strong experience in compliance, risk management, and team leadership, with a proactive approach to resolving legal issues and supporting business growth in a regulated environment.

Qualifications

• Member of ICSI and a Law graduate from a reputed university.
• Proficient in MCA e-filing and regulatory portals (MCA, RBI portals, stock exchange, SEBI).
• 8–12 years post-qualification experience, with a track record in compliance, contracts, negotiation, and management.
• Knowledge of RBI regulations, listing regulations, and corporate/commercial laws.
• Excellent relationship management and communication skills for interaction with clients, departments, regulators, and boards.
• Proactive, decisive, and able to deliver compliant legal solutions in the company’s best interests.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal advisory and contract management for company projects.
• Draft, review, negotiate, and manage contracts and policies.
• Ensure statutory compliance and governance across functions.
• Liaise with regulators, advocates, counsels, and vendors.
• Lead compliance initiatives and build a strong legal team.
• Train stakeholders on compliance and regulatory requirements.
• Coordinate with GR function for problem-solving and policy implementation.
• Advise on products and customer documentation from a legal perspective.

Skills

Regulatory compliance

Contract review & negotiation

Liaison with regulators

Governance & policy

Stakeholder communication

Team leadership

GR collaboration

Legal advisory

Risk management

Education

Law degree from a reputed university

ICSI membership

Tools

MCA e-filing

Job description

The job holder is responsible for ensuring compliances with all the laws applicable to the Company, provision of legal advisory services whenever required and ensuring effective compliance, contract management, providing legal support in designing various products/ processes and resolving legal issues.

Key Responsibilities

• Capable of handling company projects requiring legal inputs
• Legal Advisory, Legal Documentation, Contract Review, Drafting and Negotiation, Contract Management, Regulatory Support
• Due Diligence and Dealing with Government Authorities as per the Business requirement.
• Liaise with relevant departments to ensure non-compliance has been identified and appropriate courses of action have been taken.
• Review and drafting of statutory/internal policies and ensure that they are in compliance with all statutory or legal requirements.
• Continuously monitor compliance with statutory obligations and adherence to corporate governance standards prescribed by law/ HC Group.
• Manage enterprise level compliance and lead a team of experts.
• Advise and train all stakeholders on compliance.
• Coordinate with functional teams to implement compliance.
• Knowledge of relevant laws, rules and regulations, and policy framework on compliance.
• Liaise with government and regulatory agencies to implement a preventive compliance mechanism and Liaise with experts, legal counsels and consultants.
• Ensuring that all the requisite policies required by local law and/ or HC Group are prepared and approved/ reviewed by the appropriate authority before implementation.
• Negotiation and settlement with approval from concerned authorities.
• Appointment of advocates/ consultants as per requirements.
• Facilitating board/shareholder/ committee meetings and advising management on issues with legal and interpretative ramifications.
• Advising from legal perspective on the products of the company and the relevant product/ customer documentation
• To work actively with the GR function in the company for solving the potential issues/ challenges.

Work Relations (Jobs / Positions and Cooperation Activities)

Within The Company

Legal & Compliance has interaction virtually with all the functions of the company. Any activity within the organization which attracts legal/ compliance guidelines, is taken care in consultation with the department.

Outside of The Company

The job role requires significant amount of interaction with the Regulators, Advocates, counsels and vendors in connection with the various matter pertaining to the company. The interaction involves personal meetings or communication through other approved channels.

Dimensions

The significant quantities on which the job has an impact

The role is essential from the perspective to ensure that the activities conducted by the company at all times is as per applicable legal environment and also to ensure that the company's interest is protected at all times.

The role also serves as a response function for the purpose of reacting to the legal/compliance issues that may flow from outside of the company and to initiate appropriate action. This at times also require interacting and submission of information to the appropriate regulators.

The role is required to build a strong compliance and legal team so as to enable company to deal with the ever changing compliance world.

To act as the compliance officer of the company for the Board, Regulators, as may be required under various laws.

Required Know-how and Skills

• Should be a member of Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) and a Law graduate from a reputed university.
• well versed with electronic mode of filing with MCA, FED, stock exchange, NSDL, SEBI, debenture trustee, FIU-IND, DOT etc
• Basic knowledge of finance/ tax is desirable.
• At least 8-12 years of post qualification experience ideally in a leading organization, with a proven track record in handling compliances under different laws, legal aspects, contract review, drafting, negotiation and contract management.
• Knowledge of RBI regulations, listing regulations, corporate and other commercial laws.
• Excellent relationship management and communication skills necessary for interaction with the clients, internal departments, negotiation parties and government officials.
• Person with the sound domain knowledge, have good communication skills both in verbal and written, interactive and ability to deal with the people especially Board members, Senior Management and Regulators.
• Should possess proactive approach and ability to deliver ideas and solutions in the best interest of the company without compromising on the legal aspects

Nice to have areas

Knowledge of finance/ tax concepts

Understanding of PMLA regulations and KYC Norms including filing therein with respective authorities.