Key Responsibilities

A. Portfolio Compliance Leadership

- Establish and strengthen a Group-level corporate governance framework across all entities
- Serve as the designated senior CS interface between portfolio companies, the Group General Counsel, and Board / Promoter leadership providing authoritative guidance on all governance, regulatory, and secretarial matters.
- Ensure alignment with Companies Act, SEBI regulations, Secretarial Standards, and other applicable laws
- Lead board and committee governance across portfolio companies including agenda planning, meeting management, minutes, statutory resolutions, and post-meeting compliance.
- Advise Group leadership, Operating Partners, and Business CEOs on governance, regulatory risk, and compliance strategy providing independent, well-reasoned counsel.

B. Governance Framework & Standardisation

- Develop and implement uniform secretarial and governance processes across all group companies
- Standardise board and committee processes, documentation formats, and compliance trackers
- Define common templates for minutes, resolutions, statutory records, and policy documents
- Drive adoption of standardised governance practices across all portfolio companies — building compliance discipline within entity-level secretarial teams.
- Maintain and update the Group's governance and compliance policy library — ensuring currency with evolving regulatory requirements across all applicable jurisdictions.

C. Compliance Monitoring, Review & Risk Management

- Own and manage the Group's compliance monitoring framework — tracking statutory obligations, filing deadlines, and regulatory requirements across all portfolio entities with zero tolerance for material lapses.
- Conduct periodic secretarial reviews and governance audits across portfolio companies — identifying gaps, rating severity, and driving timely remediation.




- Build and maintain a group-wide compliance dashboard — providing real-time visibility to the Group General Counsel and senior leadership on compliance status, open items, and risk exposure.
- Proactively identify and escalate regulatory risks, policy deviations, and governance gaps — recommending corrective action and tracking closure.
- Manage relationships with ROC, MCA, RBI, SEBI (where applicable), and other regulatory authorities — including representations, responses to notices, and liaisoning on significant compliance matters.
- Build the capability and effectiveness of entity-level secretarial teams across the portfolio — mentoring, training, and setting performance standards.
- Oversee all statutory filings, annual compliance calendars, and event-based compliance obligations across portfolio companies — ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
- Track and report on compliance performance against defined standards — escalating material risks and systemic issues to the Group General Counsel with recommended courses of action.
- Act as custodian of governance quality and secretarial discipline across the Group

D. M&A;, Restructuring & Transaction Support

- Drive implementation of digital tools for compliance, governance, and secretarial management
- Introduce systems for compliance tracking, board management, and document control
- Lead governance aspects of current entity incorporations, conversions, and winding-up processes as required by business activities across the portfolio.
- Coordinate with Legal, Finance, and external advisors on transaction-related secretarial workstreams — ensuring governance integrity throughout deal execution and post-closing integration.
- Support the digitalisation of compliance and governance processes across the Group — driving adoption of technology tools for compliance tracking, board management, and document control.

📌 Company Secretary (Mumbai)
🏢 Essar Global Fund (EGFL)
📍 Mumbai