IMS Health - Company Secretary

Job Title: Company Secretary

Job Location: Bangalore

Role Purpose:

- Take responsibility for legal and compliance

- Ensure that the organization is conducting its business in accordance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, and follows highest standards of corporate governance

- Ensure that Board procedures are followed and regularly reviewed and provide guidance to the Directors on their responsibilities under various laws

Principal Accountabilities:

- Maintenance of all Statutory Registers of the Company and filing relevant Forms with the Registrar of Companies

- Provide legal advice counsel to the company and to IMS Global in relation to its Indian investment

- Manage compliance of all procedures relating to local legislation applicable to the company

- Provide solutions to legal issues, in-house where possible

- Own the Governance process and the governance procedures regarding board meetings, general meetings and annual general meeting of the company

- Support group companies & fellow subsidiaries on compliance activities

- Handle all issues pertaining to drafting and vetting of contracts such as vendor contracts, property contracts and confidentiality contracts.

- Represent the company as required during interactions with government departments particularly Ministry of Corporate Affairs / Registrar of Companies and the Reserve Bank of India

- Participate in specific projects such as

- Improving the management of contracts and contract data

- Formulating and implementing a legal compliance program for the company

Minimum Education, Experience & Specialized Knowledge Required:

- Qualified Company Secretary, member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (mandatory)

- Bachelors Degree in Law (mandatory)

- Min 5 years post qualification experience (ideally 8+ years total post qualification experience) preferably in the IT / ITeS / Consulting sector and in a multinational company environment

- Hands on experience in company law compliance, drafting service contracts, STPI compliance

Good to Have:

- Must possess strong communication skills and good interpersonal, influencing skills while dealing with the applicable, governing, legal and compliance organizations

- Has to demonstrate the highest level of personal integrity