Piaggio - Legal Manager/Company Secretary - LLB

Company Secretary & Legal Manager

Roles and Responsibilities :

- In this role, you will be responsible for safeguarding the company against all legal risks and perform duties of a CS as per defined norms and ensuring 100% compliance for the organization.

- Your role would entail organizing all corporate secretarial matters of PVPL including convening the boards and general meetings and all secretarial and statutory compliances.

- You will also engage in obtaining regulatory compliance with applicable regulations and report exceptions.

Key Deliverables :

Legal Matters :

- Work within the legal function and coordinate with different stakeholders to support corporate and business operations in India.

- Provide legal advice, practice, and solutions to various functions within the company.

- Provide and supervise various legal support including vetting contracts, agreement & other relevant documents, handling corporate legal matters, assisting legal negotiations, review, and finalization of brief to be presented to the external council

- Attend critical legal hearings of the cases and finalizing the response drafted & approve response drafted for out of court settlement with effective litigation management and closure

- Monitoring all legal/ statutory approvals, permits and licenses relevant for India

- Track legislative and regulatory developments relating to the business & industry.

Corporate Secretarial Matters :

- Providing insight, analysis and recommendation to the Board of Directors and Senior Management team related to all secretarial developments in the industry and applicability to the Company.

- Maintaining statutory books/ registers and all secretarial and statutory compliances

- Drafting resolutions, Board Report and Minutes and filing of extracts of Board meetings and AGM and annual returns with Registrar of Companies (ROC)

- Review of documentation (notices, agendas, attendance, and other relevant documentation) for convening the Board meetings, Extraordinary General Meetings (EGM) and AGMs

- Timely compliance under Secretarial Standards as per Companies Act

- Co-ordinate with Corporate Secretarial Consultant at Filing with ROC as per Companies Act

- Monitor yearly declaration by Board of Directors for continuity as Directors as per Company's Act

Regulatory Compliance Matters :

- Providing legal advice to various operations teams of industrial, labor & employment matters, information technology and other regulatory areas

- Seek and obtain regulatory compliance status updates, monitor compliances with applicable regulations and report exceptions to the respective management

- Development of Directives/ Policies and Standards for usage of external counsel and conduct training:

- Formulate business process/ standard operating procedure for execution of contracts and the review mechanism and approval process for the same;

- Formulate and secure requisite approvals on current policies on all legal matters and liaise with external regulators if required

- Supporting business in understanding applicable compliances and managing Compliance software of the organization

Banking :

- Approvals of timely payments and signing various documents on behalf of the Company

Insurance :

- Timely Renewing all Insurance Policies related to Company's business and property and maintaining updated data base.

- Managing and addressing the claims arising from General Insurance policies such as Business All risk policy, D&O policy etc.

- Arranging for monthly review meetings with Insurance Companies & Brokers for review of pending claims and define actionable and corrective actions

Essential Qualification :

- Bachelor in Law Degree

- Company secretary

Desired Qualification : Course on Labor Laws/ Corporate Law from credible and reputed institutions