AVP I – Legal and Compliance – CoSec & Operations (Bengaluru)

AVP I – Legal and Compliance – CoSec & Operations (Bengaluru)

11 Nov
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Embark
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Bengaluru

11 Nov

Embark

Bengaluru

Primary Role

- Team Leadership & People Development

· Lead, manage and develop teams delivering corporate secretarial and operations activities for entities across multiple jurisdictions, acting as the primary escalation point.

· Remain hands-on in day-to-day delivery – personally handling complex or sensitive corporate secretarial and operations matters, performing second-level review of key deliverables, and supporting the team directly during peak periods.

· Build a cohesive "one team" operating model; plan and allocate work across jurisdictions and work streams, balance capacity against deadlines, and ensure cross-training and back-up cover so that service continuity is never at risk.

· Organize and supervise training and development plans, including onboarding of new joiners, jurisdiction-specific training, accreditation, and build the next generation of subject-matter experts (SMEs) and team leads.

· Set clear objectives, provide regular constructive feedback, and led performance reviews and growth planning. for direct reports.

· Partner with Talent Acquisition and People & Culture on hiring, retention and engagement, and led by example in living Revantage's values.

- Corporate Secretarial & Governance and Operations

· Oversee the organization of board and shareholder meetings (including quarterly board meetings) for entities across multiple jurisdictions, including Luxembourg, UK, the Netherlands and Asia Pacific: meeting calendars, convening notices, agendas, board packs, quorum and attendance, minutes drafting and review, and follow-up of actions and resolutions.

· Supervise the drafting and review of corporate documents – board and shareholder resolutions (including written resolutions), minutes, powers of attorney, proxies, certificates and extracts – ensuring consistency with constitutional documents, local law and approved templates.

· Supervise the approval of annual accounts / financial statements and their timely filing with the relevant corporate registers monitoring all statutory deadlines.

· Oversee corporate changes and entity lifecycle events, including incorporation and corporate structuring, changes to managers/directors and signatories, share capital events, restructurings, (re)financings, intra group financing, distributions and liquidations.

· Ensure statutory registers, beneficial ownership filings, signatory lists and corporate records are complete, accurate and up to date in each jurisdiction.

· Stay abreast of jurisdiction-specific corporate law and regulatory developments, working with local counsel and regional Legal & Compliance teams to reflect changes in templates, processes and controls.

· Coordinate with notaries, external counsel, domiciliation agents,



auditors and local service providers across jurisdictions to deliver corporate actions on time.

· Ensure entity management and document management systems hold complete, accurate and current corporate data for entities in all jurisdictions supported (entities, directors/managers, signatories, shareholdings and structure charts), driving data accuracy, validity, integrity and consistency across the team and the wider company.

· Oversee document execution processes: review of legal and corporate documents to be signed by directors/managers, organization and tracking of signatures (wet-ink and electronic), dating, and digital archiving of executed documents.

· Track and monitor the accuracy of legal documents (implementation of template clauses, legislation, signatures, dates and corporate details) and help maintain the template library in coordination with regional Legal & Compliance teams.

· Support acquisitions and disposals with corporate approvals, data rooms, closing deliverables, corporate data collection and handover, and archiving of closing documentation.

- Service Delivery, Governance & Risk

· Own service levels, monitoring turnaround times, volumes and quality

· Harmonize standard operating procedures (SOPs), process maps, checklists and controls across jurisdictions, ensuring they are documented, reviewed periodically and audit-ready.

· Maintain risk and control documentation (such as risk and control matrices, process risk assessments and business continuity plans) and support internal and external audit requests.

· Organize and lead regular catch-ups with the relevant stakeholders, providing management reporting on operations, progress, capacity and risks.

· Prioritize competing deadlines during peak periods across jurisdictions (quarter-end, year-end and annual accounts seasons), escalating issues early with proposed solutions.

- Global Stakeholder Management & Collaboration

· Act as the primary point of contact for Revantage Legal & Compliance – CoSec and Operations team leads across regions.

· Collaborate closely with Transactions, Tax, Finance, Treasury, Acquisition and Risk teams across regions to ensure smooth and timely running of operations.

· Build and maintain strong professional relationships with lawyers, notaries, auditors, banks and service providers in each jurisdiction.

- Continuous Improvement & Transformation

· Contribute actively to the mapping of processes and their improvement,



identifying opportunities for standardization, automation and reduction of manual trackers.

· Lead or support the transitions, covering documentation, training, controlled production, stabilization.

· Support system implementations, testing and enhancements for entity management, document management, e-signature and workflow tools.

Requirements

Qualifications & Experience

· Qualified Company Secretary (ACS/FCS – ICSI) and/or Bachelor's degree in Law (LL.B.); an LL.M. or additional corporate law qualification is an advantage.

· 10–12 years of relevant experience in corporate secretarial / corporate administration and legal operations within a fiduciary or corporate services provider, fund administrator, law firm, or the in-house legal team of an investment manager.

· At least 3–4 years of people-management experience, including leading team leads or senior team members; experience managing teams or stakeholders across multiple locations and time zones is strongly preferred.

· Multi-jurisdictional experience supporting entities outside India is an advantage.

· Sound understanding of corporate governance, entity lifecycle events and real estate / private equity holding structures.

Skills & Competencies

· A hands-on, delivery-focused leader who is comfortable rolling up their sleeves alongside the team while setting direction.

· Proven ability to lead by example and manage globally distributed teams, including production resources, SMEs and leads.

· Ability to motivate people for high performance, give constructive feedback, and drive performance reviews and growth planning.

· Cross-cultural awareness and the ability to lead, influence and build trust across geographies, time zones and reporting lines.

· Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

· Solid stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to engage senior onshore stakeholders in multiple regions.

· Exceptional attention to detail, demonstrated integrity and professionalism, and discretion in handling confidential information.

· Ability to perform under pressure and to adjust plans to meet changing needs and requirements.

· Ability to multitask and prioritize diverse tasks, summarize issues, develop recommendations and make decisions.

· Strong organizational and planning skills, resourcefulness and a history of taking initiative.

· Ability to work independently as well as be a team player; able to take direction and ask questions.

· Total proficiency with MS Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook); exposure to workflow or automation tools (e.g. SharePoint, Power Automate) is an advantage.

· Flexibility to align working hours with European and Asia Pacific time zones as per business needs.

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