Job Description

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Group Compliance Framework and Governance

- Establish and maintain a single Group compliance framework covering every entity, business, plant and project site.
- Build and maintain a complete compliance register, mapping every applicable statute, licence, registration, filing and return to a named owner and a due date.
- Maintain a Group compliance calendar and ensure no statutory due date is missed across any entity.
- Define compliance policies, standard operating procedures and delegation of authority.
- Establish an assurance mechanism to verify that reported compliance has actually been performed, rather than relying on self-certification alone.

2. Listed Entity Compliance

- Own compliance with the Companies Act 2013 and the SEBI Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements Regulations for the listed entity.
- Ensure timely and accurate filings and disclosures to the stock exchanges, including periodic results, material events and shareholding disclosures.
- Administer the insider trading framework — the code of conduct, identification and handling of unpublished price sensitive information, maintenance of the structured digital database, and operation of the trading window.
- Coordinate board and committee governance requirements, statutory registers, secretarial audit and annual return.
- Coordinate Business Responsibility and Sustainability Reporting with Finance, Sustainability and the business.
- Work with the Company Secretary, Investor Relations and Finance to ensure consistency between what is disclosed and what is filed.

3. FMCG Compliance

- Own compliance with the food / non food Products Act and rules, including pack warnings, labelling specifications, advertising and promotion restrictions, and point-of-sale requirements.
- Ensure indirect tax and duty compliance for products, including GST, applicable cess and excise obligations, in coordination with Finance.
- Maintain Board registrations and returns where applicable.
- Own FSSAI licensing, product labelling, hygiene and periodic returns for both food manufacturing plants.
- Ensure Legal Metrology and packaged commodity declarations are accurate across all products and pack sizes.
- Manage Extended Producer Responsibility registration and reporting for packaging.
- Review artwork, packaging and labelling changes for statutory compliance before commercial release.

4. Plant, Labour and Establishment Compliance

- Own factory licences, approvals and renewals across all manufacturing locations.
- Ensure compliance with the Factories Act, applicable labour codes and state legislation, including registers, returns and displays.
- Own Provident Fund, ESIC, Professional Tax, Labour Welfare Fund and gratuity compliance for all entities.




- Ensure contract labour compliance, including principal employer obligations and contractor verification.
- Own Prevention of Sexual Harassment compliance across entities — committee constitution, training and annual returns.
- Coordinate with Human Resources on establishment registrations for offices at Delhi, Noida, Mumbai and elsewhere.

5. Workplace, Health and Safety Compliance

- Own pollution control board consents to establish and to operate, and their timely renewal.
- Ensure hazardous waste authorisation, effluent and emission compliance and statutory returns.
- Own boiler, electrical, lift and fire safety certifications across sites.
- Coordinate environmental and forest clearances for renewable energy projects.
- Ensure statutory safety requirements, records and reporting are met at every site.

6. Power and Renewable Energy Compliance

- Own regulatory compliance under the Electricity Act and the applicable Central and State Electricity Regulatory Commission regulations.
- Track tariff orders, regulatory filings, petitions and compliance directions.
- Ensure Renewable Purchase Obligation, open access and generation-related compliance.
- Coordinate project-level statutory approvals, grid connectivity and transmission clearances.
- Support land-related statutory compliance, including conversion, right of way and revenue records.

7. Technology, Cybersecurity and Data Protection Compliance

- Own compliance with the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 across all Group entities, including notice, consent, retention and data principal rights.
- Ensure compliance with the Information Technology Act and rules, and with CERT-In directions including incident reporting timelines.
- Coordinate with the cybersecurity business on client, contractual and certification compliance obligations.
- Establish data protection governance, records of processing and breach response procedures in coordination with Legal and IT.

8. Monitoring, Audit and Reporting

- Establish periodic compliance certification from each entity and business head.
- Conduct or commission compliance audits across entities, plants and project sites.
- Maintain a register of non-compliances, with root cause, remediation plan, owner and closure date.
- Prepare and present the Group compliance dashboard to leadership,



and compliance reporting to the Board and Audit Committee for the listed entity.
- Track and report on statutory dues, penalties, notices and contingent liabilities in coordination with Finance.

9. Regulatory Liaison and Representation

- Act as the Group point of contact for regulators, inspectors and statutory authorities.
- Manage inspections, audits, summons and show-cause notices, and coordinate responses.
- Represent the Group before authorities where required, with Legal support.
- Build constructive working relationships with regulatory bodies across sectors and states.

10. Acquisitions and New Entity Compliance

- Conduct compliance due diligence on target companies and quantify inherited exposure.
- Plan and execute compliance remediation and integration for acquired entities.
- Onboard acquired businesses onto the Group compliance framework, register and calendar.
- Establish compliance for new entities, plants, projects and locations from set-up.

11. Team, Capability and Advisory

- Build and lead the Group compliance function, and define responsibility between Group and entity level.
- Develop compliance capability within businesses through training and clear guidance.
- Act as internal compliance advisor to Group and business leadership, and to acquired companies.
- Manage external compliance advisors, consultants and service providers.

CANDIDATE PROFILE

Essential

- Company Secretary, or a law or accountancy qualification, with 15+ years of statutory and regulatory compliance experience.
- Compliance experience in a listed Indian company — SEBI Listing Regulations, insider trading regulations and exchange filings.
- Compliance experience in a manufacturing environment — factory licensing, labour, environmental and plant-level statutory compliance.
- Experience managing compliance across multiple legal entities and multiple states.
- Demonstrated ability to build a compliance framework, register and calendar from the ground up.
- Experience dealing directly with regulators, inspections and show-cause proceedings.
- Strong drafting and reporting ability, with the judgement to present a compliance position honestly to leadership and to a Board.
- Willingness to be hands-on. This role builds the function rather than supervising an existing one.

Preferred

- Exposure to regulated consumer categories, particularly alcohol, food or pharmaceuticals.
- Exposure to the power, renewable energy or infrastructure sector and to electricity regulation.
- Working knowledge of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act and data protection compliance.
- Experience of compliance due diligence and post-acquisition remediation.
- Experience in a promoter-led or family-owned group environment.

📌 Head Statutory Compliance (Mumbai)
🏢 CAPEON
📍 Mumbai