Corporate Counsel
Job Summary
- Lead and support ongoing entity management subsidiary maintenance and corporate governance matters across multiple jurisdictions.
- Coordinate legal work streams required to operationalize and maintain group entities including director appointments statutory registrations governance filings local compliance steps and document execution.
- Partner closely with Finance on entity readiness tax registrations payment flows statutory filings audit support and local vendor/advisor coordination.
- Partner closely with HR and People teams on employment onboarding offer and contract support benefits coordination employee transitions and jurisdiction-specific people processes.
- Partner with payroll teams and vendors to help ensure new entities are operationally ready for payroll go-live and ongoing employment compliance.
- Partner with Stock Administration on equity-related employee matters arising in cross-border hiring transfers and local entity transitions including helping support market-standard equity offerings and related employee communications.
- Support employment-related legal work tied to international hiring local law requirements fixed-term arrangements contractor risk immigration-dependent transitions and policy alignment.
- Manage outside counsel accountants payroll providers and local corporate services firms to keep jurisdictional workstreams moving efficiently.
- Translate legal advice into clear internal action items and drive those items to closure with business stakeholders.
- Maintain and improve internal templates trackers and playbooks for international expansion and corporate governance matters.
- Drive implementation and ongoing ownership of a compliance tool to improve visibility tracking governance hygiene reminders and execution across the companys corporate and compliance obligations.
- Use the compliance tool to streamline recurring governance processes maintain accurate entity records and create stronger operational discipline across Legal Finance HR Payroll and Stock Administration touchpoints.
- Support India-side RBI / FEMA / foreign exchange reporting documentation escalation and remediation items arising from overseas entity activity and cross-border structures.
- Monitor and help implement new regulatory developments across jurisdictions including employment payroll corporate-governance and compliance changes such as Indias labour codes.
- Help identify and mitigate legal and operational risk in a practical business-oriented way.
- Qualified Company Secretary and member of ICSI; law degree or qualification to practice in any jurisdiction is an added advantage.
- 510 years of relevant experience in corporate governance entity management employment-related operational legal work and cross-border legal operations.
- Strong experience supporting international expansion ongoing entity management and governance/compliance across multiple jurisdictions including regulated markets such as India the UK Singapore and Australia.
- Practical experience with employee onboarding payroll readiness benefits coordination and equity-related cross-border issues.
- Ability to work closely and effectively with Finance HR payroll tax stock administration external counsel and other professional advisors across regions.
- Strong project management capability with the ability to independently drive complex cross-functional workstreams in a fast-moving environment.
- Excellent drafting and communication skills with the ability to translate legal requirements into practical executable business processes.
- Experience in a high-growth technology company and comfort operating where legal work is tightly connected to broader business execution.
- Familiarity with legal ops compliance and workflow tools including the use of AI for drafting research issue-spotting knowledge management tracking reminders ownership reporting and execution leverage.
- This role is hybrid (4 days a week in our Bangalore office)
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