Corporate Secretary India

Corporate Secretary, India 

About Payoneer 

Founded in 2005, Payoneer is the global financial platform that removes friction from doing business across borders, with a mission to connect the world’s underserved businesses to a rising global economy. We’re a community with over 2,500 colleagues all over the world, working to serve customers, and partners in over 190 countries and territories. 

By taking the complexity out of the financial workflows–including everything from global payments and compliance, to multi-currency and workforce management, to providing working capital and business intelligence–we give businesses the tools they need to work efficiently worldwide and grow with confidence.  

Role summary - The Corporate Secretary will provide corporate governance and secretarial advice for the subsidiaries of Payoneer’s Workforce Management Group throughout APAC and MEA. This role works closely with global corporate legal and secretarial colleagues, senior business stakeholders, and cross-functional teams across multiple jurisdictions to ensure robust legal entity management. 

Location: Gurugram, India 

Hybrid  
Full-time  

What you’ll do: 

• Ensure regulatory and legal compliance throughout each entity life cycle, such as maintaining accurate statutory registers and records, as well as timely filing of financial statements, annual returns, accounts, director changes, and other related corporate maintenance matters. 

• Maintain and obtain corporate documents such as incorporation certificates, articles of association, by-laws, certificates of good standing, and other relevant documents required by law in each jurisdiction. 

• Ensure consistent oversight and prompt renewal of all business licenses, permits, and real estate/workplace-related registrations with the relevant authorities. 

• Support review of the group’s corporate subsidiary structure, such as share capital restructuring, entity formations, and broader entity rationalization initiatives involving liquidations, dissolutions, and deregistration of branches. 

• Provide board and governance support by scheduling meetings, preparing notices and agendas, drafting AGMs/board minutes and resolutions, and advising directors on their duties, roles, and best practices. 

• Prepare a range of supporting corporate and secretarial documents, including share capital forms, share transfer agreements, confidentiality agreements, power of attorney, legal memoranda, etc. 

• Draft intercompany agreements to reflect the group’s commercial, legal, and tax requirements within each relevant jurisdiction. 

• Maintain the accuracy of the group’s centralized corporate entity Diligent platform for all subsidiaries, such as details of incorporation, director appointments, share ownership, authorized signatories, etc. 

• Manage relationships with external corporate legal counsels and secretarial service providers for each jurisdiction, and partner with Procurement, AP, and Finance as needed. 

• Proactively liaise with internal stakeholders such as HR, Treasury, Finance, Tax, Employment, and Regulatory teams to ensure that all corporate matters are consistently aligned with the organization’s overarching goals. 

• Contribute to the ongoing development and improvement of the global Corporate Secretarial function. 

Who you are 

• Qualified Corporate Secretary and a member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India and/or a Practicing Solicitor admitted to the Bar Council of India 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex issues clearly to senior stakeholders 

• 3+ years of post-qualification experience in a corporate legal or secretarial role, working within a law firm and/or in-house within a multinational group 

• Proven expertise across multiple jurisdictions within APAC and MEA is a significant advantage 

• Excellent teamwork, project management, and collaboration skills 

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced in-house environment with the ability to manage multiple priorities independently