Company Overview (Accordion | The Leader in Private Equity Consulting | Office of the CFO)

There’s a better way to work in finance—and more specifically, a better way to unlock value potential in private equity-backed portfolio companies. Working at the intersection of sponsors and management teams across every stage of the investment lifecycle, our team provides hands-on, execution-oriented support to elevate the office of the CFO.

So, what does it mean to work at Accordion? It means joining 1,000+ finance & technology experts in a high-growth, agile, and entrepreneurial environment while changing the way portfolio companies drive value. It also means making your mark on Accordion’s future—by embracing a culture rooted in collaboration and a firm-wide commitment to building something great, together.

Accordion is headquartered in New York City with 10 offices worldwide, including the India office based out of Hyderabad. Join us and make your mark on our company.

Location: Hyderabad, Telangana

Role overview:

This role will primarily focus on reviewing contracts, ensuring compliance with applicable laws and internal policies, and supporting a wide range of legal matters. The successful candidate will work closely with senior legal counsel and other departments to help safeguard the company's legal interests and maintain the required compliance standards.

This role is a part of our global Accordion group. The responsibilities and nature of critical deliverables for this role will span across geographies (currently India, U.S., and U.K.), with operations based out of our India office in Hyderabad

What will you do:

1. Compliance Program Support

- Monitor and support Accordion’s adherence to regulatory and legal requirements across applicable jurisdictions.
- Assist with internal compliance, policy implementation, and compliance training materials.
- Advise on corporate governance, data protection, conflict issues, regulatory compliance, and other compliance-related matters.
- Support compliance training operations, including training completion-rate reporting, campaign creation and execution, and follow-up for overdue or incomplete training.
- Support KYC / AML compliance questionnaire reviews, data reconciliation, and ongoing new deal or prospect analysis and other processes on internal systems
- Conduct legal research on relevant laws, regulations, industry standards, and emerging compliance requirements.
- Provide advice and recommendations on legal risks and compliance matters to internal stakeholders.
- Assist senior legal counsel and the legal team in preparing legal opinions, reports, and risk summaries.
- Identify, document, and escalate findings from due diligence, screenings, or risk reviews in accordance with internal escalation protocols.
- Prepare and review vendor questionnaires




- Assist with the compilation of compliance statistics and reporting metrics for each of the Legal and Compliance applications

2. Operations, Tools & Process Improvement

- Own and improve legal intake, triage, prioritization, and workflow management processes to ensure requests are routed, tracked, and resolved efficiently.
- Maintain legal and compliance records, contract databases, matter trackers, training trackers, and operational reporting repositories.
- Coordinate employee list uploads from People / HR payroll systems
- Support vendor uploads on internal portals from various sources
- Contribute to data clean-up, data reconciliation, process documentation, and issue resolution.
- Identify and implement opportunities to streamline manual processes, online dashboards, workflow automation, and self-service resources in place of email-based reporting.
- Develop and maintain legal operations playbooks, process maps, standard operating procedures, knowledge repositories, templates, and guidance documents.
- Track legal team metrics and KPIs, including request volume, turnaround time, training completion, contract cycle times, backlog, and operational risks.
- Prepare dashboards, recurring reports, and leadership updates to support data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement.
- Support reverse-look up reviews for public companies, restricted trading list processes, conflict screenings, and related operational reviews as required.
- Support legal vendor onboarding as needed.

3 . Corporate Secretarial & Entity Governance Support

- Support corporate secretarial and entity governance activities, including board and committee meeting coordination, agenda preparation, minutes, resolutions, and maintenance of corporate records.
- Assist with statutory and regulatory filings, annual compliance requirements, entity registrations, renewals, and related documentation across applicable jurisdictions.
- Maintain corporate registers, minute books, authorized signatory records, powers of attorney, organizational charts, and other entity management records.
- Coordinate with internal stakeholders, external counsel, company secretaries, auditors, and service providers to ensure timely completion of governance and filing obligations.
- Track corporate compliance calendars, board action items, approvals, and entity governance deliverables, and escalate upcoming deadlines or risks as needed.

Ideally, you should have:

- LLB, CS or equivalent degree.




- 10 years of experience in a law firm or in-house experience
- Proficiency with email and Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Word and PowerPoint).
- Problem solving skills and detail-oriented
- Good communication (written and verbal) and strong interpersonal skills.
- Understanding of contract laws and commercial agreements.

Why Explore a Career at Accordion: A Culture of Impact & Excellence

- A culture of merit & recognition: Thrive in a meritocratic, high-growth environment with semiannual performance and promotion cycles.
- Multi - dimensional exposure: Navigate complex, high-stakes workstreams across diverse industries and domains.
- At Accordion, you will engage with varied intellectual challenges that keep your perspective sharp, and your curiosity fuelled.
- Entrepreneurial environment: Exercise the intellectual freedom to make definitive decisions and the autonomy to own their outcomes. We reward initiative, encouraging you to expand your influence and assume larger responsibilities.

- Collaborative vitality: Experience a non-bureaucratic, high-energy culture alongside high calibre peers.
- Our environment is designed to challenge your thinking and accelerate your growth through shared expertise and collective ambition.

Our Commitment to Your Well-being

We believe that our collective success is rooted in the personal well-being and growth of our people. We have curated a suite of benefits designed to support you and your family’s health, celebrate your milestones and empower your professional journey.

- Comprehensive health & security: We provide fully covered Health and Group Term Life Insurance for you, with health insurance coverage extending to your immediate family.
- Care on your terms: Access expert medical guidance through on-site health camps or our integrated tele-health services. This ecosystem includes free professional consultations alongside discounted healthcare services including dental and vision care.
- Integrated family support: We support working parents with a fully sponsored, premium onsite Day Care facility.
- Empowering leave structures: Our robust leave policy is an intentional commitment to work life integration, featuring dedicated maternity and parental support designed to help new parents through life’s major transitions.
- A culture of recognition: We believe every breakthrough deserves an audience. Through our dedicated rewards platform, we pause to celebrate both your professional triumphs and your most meaningful personal milestones.
- Architecting your growth: Thrive in a positive & transparent setting designed for the continuous evolution of your craft. We provide the infrastructure - through learning programs and engagement initiatives - to bridge the gap between your personal aspirations and professional mastery.

📌 Accordion India - Manager - Legal and Compliance (Hyderabad)
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