Corporate Compliance Officer

How you'll create impact

• The role will entail providing global legal assistance related to Cognite’s overall activities with the main focus on:
• India & MENA Entity Secretarial: Manage all corporate secretarial requirements (filings, board minutes, registers) for Cognite's India and MENA entities.
• Regional Compliance: Ensure adherence to all local regulatory and legal requirements in India and MENA.
• Global Legal Support: Provide general legal and compliance assistance to all business departments globally.
• Policy & Compliance Safeguard: Implement and enforce internal policies and safeguard compliance with all outside regulatory and legal obligations.
• Some of the specific responsibilities will be:
• Manage all corporate secretarial obligations for Cognite's India entity, including annual filings, board resolutions, meeting minutes, statutory registers, and government reporting.
• Act as the primary point of contact for local regulatory bodies and external corporate services providers in India.
• Manage and coordinate all labour and employment law filings, RBI FEMA filings etc.
• Working with legal tech tools to automate the legal department
• Assist with the implementation and enforcement of internal company policies, company wide compliance and ethics training
• Customer, partner and vendor background checks and compliance due diligence
• Support the India and MENA office and the global legal team with ad-hoc legal tasks
• Ad-hoc support of other functions such as finance, corporate development and P&O.

What will you bring

• Law degree (India Qualified) and Qualified Company Secretary (under ICSI)
• Minimum 3 years experience working as Company Secretary in an Indian Company.
• Minimum 3 years relevant legal experience (in-house legal department, law firm or relevant authorities)
• Practical and commercial mindset
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written and fluent in English
• Ability to work independently and efficiently, often with tight deadlines, with understanding of the legal in-house role
• Positive attitude
• Eager to learn and explore new areas of law and processes.
• Nice to have:Experience with GDPR, SOC2, ISO 27001 and EU data protection and privacy regulations
• Experience working with compliance and practices in the MENA region is preferred.

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