Manager - Company Secretary

Role Overview

We are hiring a Company Secretary Compliance for Embark. This is a complianceled corporate secretarial role, not a general CS position . The role sits at the intersection of statutory compliance and governance and requires someone who can independently own compliance responsibilities while actively supporting contract drafting and risk management.

This is a handson role based out of our Bangalore office and requires regular interaction with

internal stakeholders, external advisers, and regulators.

Key Responsibilities

Corporate Secretarial & Compliance

• Ensure endtoend compliance under the Companies Act, 2013 and applicable rules.

• Manage ROC/MCA filings,statutory registers, compliance calendars, and documentation.

• Plan and support Board,Committee, AGM and EGM meetings,including notices, agendas, minutes, resolutions, and action tracking.
• Support internal, statutory, and secretarial auditsand ensure timely closure of observations.

Contracts & Legal Support

• Draft, review, negotiate, and manage contracts endtoend, including customer and vendor

IT contracts, commercial agreements, NDAs, MSAs, SOWs, and SLAs.

• Handle real estaterelated contracts such as lease agreements, amendments, renewals, and

related documentation.

• Manage contractlifecycle processes, templates, approvals, version control,and renewals (exposure to smart contracts or CLM tools is a plus).

Due Diligence & Risk Management

• Conduct legal due diligence for vendors, partners,and transactions.

• Identify contractual and compliance risks and recommend mitigation measures.

• Provide legal advisorysupport to businessteams on compliance and contractrelated

matters.

Stakeholder Management &Legal Writing

• Act as a key compliance contact for internal stakeholders and leadership.

• Liaise with external legal counsel, auditors,consultants, and regulators as required.

• Prepare legal drafts,compliance notes, internal advisories, and research briefs.

Qualifications &Experience

• Qualified Company Secretary and active memberof ICSI.

• 47 years of relevant experience in corporate secretarial compliance roles.

• Strong handson experience with statutory compliance, board processes, and ROC/MCA

filings.

• Proven exposure to contract drafting,negotiation, and contract management.

Key Skills

• Corporate secretarial compliance

• Endtoend contract drafting,review, negotiation, and management

• Due diligence, legal advisory, and compliance

• Customer and vendorIT contracts

• Contract lifecycle management (including smart contracts exposure)

• Risk mitigation and management

• Stakeholder and clientmanagement

• Legal writing and legal research