Company Secretary

Job Description

Job Description: Corporate Governance : Ensure compliance with all relevant laws, regulations, and corporate governance guidelines. Advise the board on best practices and governance issues. Board Support : Organize and attend board meetings, preparing agendas, taking minutes, and ensuring accurate records are maintained. Provide guidance to the board on their duties and responsibilities. Statutory Compliance : Ensure compliance with statutory requirements, including filing annual returns, maintaining registers, and updating company records as required by law. Shareholder Relations : Serve as a point of contact for shareholders, responding to inquiries and facilitating shareholder meetings. Manage share transfers and issuance of share certificates. Legal Compliance : Monitor changes in relevant legislation and ensure that the company complies with all legal requirements. Advise management on legal matters affecting the company's operations. Risk Management : Identify and assess legal and regulatory risks to the company. Develop strategies to mitigate risks and ensure the company's long-term sustainability. Corporate Secretarial Duties : Perform all duties required of a company secretary under company law, including maintaining statutory registers, filing statutory returns, and ensuring compliance with company policies and procedures. Drafting of agendas, notices and minutes of Board Meeting, General Meeting pursuant to Companies Act, 2013 and Secretarial Standards. Compliance with all the pre and post statutory and internal requirements relating to convening and conducting of Board and General Meetings. Annual Compliance of Companies and LLPs under Companies Act and LLP Act, such as drafting of the Directors Report, Annual Report, Compliance Certificate and preparation of e-form AOC-4, MGT-7 and other allied forms like ADT-1, ADT-3 etc. Vetting of Financial Statements and related documents such as Auditors Report etc. Preparation and maintenance of Statutory Registers such as Share Application Register, Share Transfer Register, Shareholders Register, Debenture Register, Charge Register, etc.